In cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) in Lebanon and the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World/Lebanese American University (LAU), ESCWA will organize a "National Training Workshop to Benefit from the Lebanese Experience in Human Development" during 6-12 August 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Financial Services and Business Registers in the context of supporting the statistical capacities of National Accounts and Economic Statistics during 25-27 November, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held an expert group meeting to review a draft study on “Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region”, at the United Nations House, Beirut, on 26 and 27 June 2012.
The meeting reviewed the draft study and solicited feedback from experts from the region. The meeting also included two presentations, one on the efforts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote gender equality and another on gender in the workplace.

Within the framework of the 5h UN Global Road Safety week 2019, a workshop was organized by ESCWA and YASA on traffic safety in the cities. The workshop was attended by Minister of Public Works and Transport, Mr. Youssef Fenianos as well as the Director General of Oil, Ms Aurore Feghali.