The Ministry of Planning in cooperation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), implemented the integrated social policy project in Palestine, followed by the National Conference: Towards Integrated Social Policy in Palestine (Ramallah, 9 June 2009).

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) organized a conference entitled “Food Secure Arab World: A Road Map for Policy and Research,” in collaboration with the American University of Beirut, the University of Cairo, the Economic Research Forum, the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine in Rabat, and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. The conference took place on 6 and 7 February 2012, in Beirut.

The Workshop addresses the growing need of subnational governments for decentralization in order to empower the formulation of needs-based solutions while concurrently facing circumstances of sub-par national governance, limited budgets and confined legal frameworks; including little consideration to gender mainstreaming and nexus-thinking.

ESCWA is organizing an Expert Group Meeting to review draft groundwater abstraction guidelines that have been prepared by based on an extensive review of available experiences and regulations in the Arab region in managing the abstraction of groundwater. The meeting will be conducted online on Thursday 4 March 2021.