The year 2014 is pivotal for development. While efforts at the global, regional and national levels intensify to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, endeavors continue to define a development agenda beyond 2015 that will guide sustainable development action at the global level over the short to medium terms.

The objective of this meeting is to present to the national project task force the final results of the comprehensive baseline mapping study for the energy situation of the building sector in Jordan. Members of the task force, which include representatives of relevant public & private stakeholders for the considered branches of activities, will be solicited to help in validating these final results and identifying areas requiring final revisions. The outputs of this mapping exercise shall constitute the basis for the remaining project activities and will help in defining the main axis and players for conducting the energy efficiency actions in the building sector.
The meeting will also present for discussion a methodology for periodic surveys of energy consumption patterns in the buildings' sector, based on a series of periodic surveys that the Tunisian Electricity and Gas Company (STEG) has been conducting since 1989. It is proposed that the methodology will be further developed and improved, in the context of the UNDA project, to be adopted, in both Jordan and Tunisia, as a formal approach for monitoring the evolution of energy consumption in the building sector and estimating the impacts of energy efficiency programs in the sector.
This national meeting is part of the activities scheduled in the UN Development Account (UNDA) project on “Up-scaling Energy Efficiency in the residential and services sectors in the Arab Region”.

​UN ESCWA, UN Women and WHO are jointly organizing this meeting to bring together relevant partners in the Arab region to discuss a way forward in advancing methods and strategies to measure violence against women (VAW) in line with globally agreed methodological and ethical standards, building on the outcomes of the meeting Measuring Sustainable Development Goals on Violence against Women and Time Use Statistics Indicators held in Tangier, Morocco in 2018.