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5 December 2014	High Level Meeting and Regional Seminar on the Implementation of 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in the Arab Region	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and UNSD are cooperating to initiate the formulation of a national strategy and implementation programme for the 2008 SNA and supporting system-wide socio-economic statistics, in collaboration with the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), and the Statistics Department of the league of Arab States (LAS). The main objective of the initiative is strengthening the national statistical system (NSS) for improved policy making with the support of high policy-making in the Arab region.
5 December 2014	Regional Workshop on Gender Budgeting
5 December 2014	The role of Energy Networks in Regional Integration
24 June 2019	1st Joint ESCWA-UNCTAD-OECD Competition Forum for the Arab region	UNESCWA in partnership with the OECD and UNCTAD convenes the Competition Forum in the Arab region for the first time, which aims to establish an annual knowledge-sharing platform on competition for Arab stakeholders.
8 September 2020	Presentation of final results of the comprehensive baseline mapping study for the energy situation of the building sector in Tunisia	The objective of this National Workshop is to present to the key actors in the building sector in Tunisia – in particular, the project’s National Task Force – the final results of the comprehensive baseline mapping study for the energy situation of the building sector in Tunisia. Members of the Project’s National Task Force, which include representatives of relevant public & private stakeholders for the considered branches of activities and other key actors in the building sector, will be solicited to help in validating these final results. 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 in Tunisia. This National Workshop 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”.
5 December 2014	Workshop on Water Accounts and Statistics for Mediterranean Countries	"The workshop on Water Accounts and Statistics in Mediterranean countries is organised jointly by the European Environment Agency, United Nations Economic Commission for West Asia (UN-ESCWA) and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and hosted by UN-ESCWA and held at UN House, Beirut, 20-22 March 2012.
5 December 2014	Expert Group Meeting on Adopting the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for Promoting Rural Development in the ESCWA Region
14 January 2021	Capacity-Building Workshop on “Improving the yield and quality of fruit tree plantings and adopting water-saving irrigation techniques and renewable energy technologies for pumping, irrigation, and water desalination”.	Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in Rural Areas of the Arab Region (REGEND)” project, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the General Commission for Regional Development (CGDR) and the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) in Tunisia, is organizing a capacity-building workshop on “Improving the yield and quality of fruit tree plantings and adopting water-saving irrigation techniques and renewable energy technologies for pumping, irrigation, and water desalination”. This workshop aims to build/enhance the knowledge and the practical capacities of a group of peasants in the region of Chorbane (Governorate of Mahdia, Republic of Tunisia), with regard to improving the yield and quality of fruit tree plantings through the adoption of the best agricultural practices that are compatible with what the region is facing as a result of climate change like water scarcity, by rationalizing the use of the available water resources through using water irrigation saving techniques and renewable energy techniques to desalinate highly saline groundwater and to pump irrigation water. The workshop will provide the participants with theoretical knowledge and practical experience with regards to Water-Energy-Food Nexus, by adopting modern methods of training that integrate theoretical and practical dimensions together through the field school technology.
7 March 2019	The 25th RCM and R-UNSDG	The Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) and Regional United Nations Sustainable Development Group (R-UNSDG) meeting is held on 7-8 April 2019 in Beirut, with the R-UNSDG segment taking place on 7 April (all day) and the RCM segment on 8 April (afternoon only). The meeting is followed by the 2019 Arab Forum on Sustainable Development between 9 and 11 April.
5 December 2014	Final Meeting of the Project on "Promotion of the Digital Arabic Content Industry Through Incubation"

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