ESCWA award for recognizing efforts to develop digital Arabic content for sustainable development.

The JTV will focus on the daily challenges faced by language experts with the Arabic-English combination and explore creative solutions. It will also consider the United Nations shift towards multitasking among language professionals, as reflected in the new combined Language Competitive Examination. Verbatim officers, copy editors, translators and editors are now expected to possess varied skills to facilitate and encourage smooth movement between the disciplines, so as to communicate the Organization’s mandate to various audiences more effectively and efficiently.

UNESCWA Iraq Task Force has completed two management skills training workshops for the benefit of two groups of senior government and municipal officials from Erbil and Basrah. The two training workshops are part of the UN HABITAT project “Strengthening the Urban Sector in Iraq through Building Capacities in Municipal Planning and Management” that is funded by the UNDG Iraq Trust Fund. The participants of the two workshops will come back to follow-up modules at the end of the year.

The Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a session titled "The Role of Renewable Energy in Socio - Economic Development in the Arab Region" on 17 Sept. 2014, with a focus on the impact of RE and EE deployment and role of SMEs in this respect, within the activities of the 5the Beirut Energy Forum (www.beirutenergyforum.com).