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| 12 May 2016 |
Climate Change Adaptation in Human Settlements Using Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Tools |
The module proposes assessment policies that enhance the resilience of human settlements to climate change with focus on water supply, sanitation and infrastructure affected by extreme weather. |
| 3 February 2020 |
Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights for Agricultural Research and Innovation and its Impact on the Economic Development |
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) and their management are tremendously important aspects of global policy for agricultural research and innovation. For instance, research and innovation in plant breeding are essential to meet sustainable agricultural demands of a growing world population and the changing effects of climate change. Academic institutions and research centres, play an important role in the area of agricultural research to improve crops. These institutions must make efforts to bridge and encourage partnerships between the private and public sectors, in the hope of fostering innovation and improving sustainability while generating revenue and protecting investments.
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| 3 March 2021 |
Voluntary National Reviews in the Arab Region, 2021 |
The workshop will review the experiences of Arab countries preparing to present their voluntary national reviews (VNRs) in 2021. |
| 20 February 2020 |
Sub-Regional Webinar: Developing Budgeted Monitoring & Evaluation Frameworks for National Action Plans on Women, Peace, and Security |
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| 5 December 2014 |
Technical Committee, 5th Meeting |
The Fifth Meeting of the Technical Committee will be held from 6-7 April 2011 at the United Nations House in Beirut, pursuant to the decision of the Commission at its twenty fourth session (May 2006) to establish a Technical Committee comprised of Senior Officials from member counties. The Technical Committee meets regularly at the Headquarters of ESCWA and aims at enhancing interaction and close consultation between member countries and the secretariat on socioeconomic development issues of relevance to the work of ESCWA. |
| 4 May 2020 |
The Emerging Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Food Security in the Arab Region |
ESCWA organized a virtual dialogue on the emerging impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Food Security in the Arab region on April 23, 2020. The dialogue was attended by the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Regional Office for the Near East, officials responsible for food security issues in relevant ministries in the Arab countries, as well as a group of regional and local experts. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Constitutional Meeting for The Coalition of Arab-Palestinian Civil Society Organizations |
The Arab-International Forum on Rehabilitation and Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Towards an Independent State (Beirut, 11-14 October 2004) launched a multilateral process to enhance Arab-Palestinian partnerships. This process aims to support the process of rehabilitation and development in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT), and thereby assist the Palestinian people overcome the harsh realities of occupation and instability, and at the same time lay the socio-economic foundations for creating their independent state. |
| 5 December 2014 |
COSIT Fellowship on Gender Statistics in Jordan |
Date and Venue
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA) is organizing in cooperation with the Jordanian Department of Statistics and Ministry Planning and International Cooperation a Study Visit for the Gender Statistics Unit of the Iraqi Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology (COSIT) during the 7-8 November 2007.
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| 7 December 2017 |
The Interregional Transport Linkages between ESCWA, ECE and ESCAP Under the United Nations Development Account Project on Capacity Building Through Cooperation in Developing and Land-Sea Interregional Transport Linkages (2002-2006) |
This Expert Group Meeting was aimed at discussing the proposed transport linkages between the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and two other regional commissions, namely, the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). |
| 5 December 2014 |
EGM on Inclusive Social Development in the Arab Region |
The Social Development Division at ESCWA is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on Inclusive Social Development in the Arab Region, at the UN House, in Beirut, during 4-5 November 2014. |