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5 December 2014	Committee on Women, 4th session	The Committee on Women was established pursuant to Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) resolution 240 (XXII) of 17 April 2003, which was endorsed by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2003/9 of 18 July 2004.
14 February 2019	Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2019	The Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD) is an annual high-level regional platform, where multiple stakeholders discuss coordination pathways for the implementation, follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab region. This year, AFSD-2019 is held under the theme of “Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality in the Arab Region”.
5 December 2014	Statistical Committee, 10th Session	The 10th Session of the Statistical Committee will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, 30 January 2013, at the headquarters of the Central Administration for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in Cairo. Final Report of the 10th session (English, Arabic)
30 November 2020	The Regional Workshop on the Exchange of Experiences on the Collection and Dissemination of Road and Railway Transport Statistics: Statistics on The Volume of Road Traffic (Vehicle-Kilometer)	The Regional Workshop on the Exchange of Experiences on the Collection and Dissemination of Road and Railway Transport Statistics: Statistics on The Volume of Road Traffic (Vehicle-Kilometer) is to be to be convened during 8- 10 December 2020. The regional workshop will be convened virtually.
8 January 2020	Visual arts competition on sustainable development in the Arab region	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing a visual arts competition on sustainable development in the Arab region, to encourage artists and photographers from the region to portray the reality of sustainable development in Arab countries through photographs, videos or infographics/animation. ESCWA is organizing the competition in collaboration with the United Nations Information Centre in Beirut.
9 May 2019	Regional Workshop on the Development of Transport Statistics and Transport Related Sustainable Development Indicators in the Arab Countries	The regional workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of national statistical offices in Arab countries to identify statistical gaps, to compile, classify and analyze transport data and to strengthen cooperation with regional and national partners to ensure consistency and harmonization of data collection and dissemination methodologies in line with the regional and international recommendations, knowledge sharing on best practices and lessons learned in the collection and dissemination of transport data, enhancing cooperation in the dissemination of transport data and contribu
1 April 2021	First ESCWA-LAS Joint Workshop on Developing the Arab Digital Agenda / ICT Strategy A standalone Side-Event in parallel to the 32nd Arab Working Group on the Arab ICT strategy	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the League of Arab States (LAS) are organizing the First Joint Workshop on Developing the Arab Digital Agenda / ICT Strategy (ADAICTS) as a standalone Side-Event in parallel to the 32^nd Arab Working Group on the Arab ICT strategy. The event is being held within the framework of the strategic cooperation between the two organizations and in the context of the related track of Advancing Digital Cooperation and Development Arab States Action Programme, launched by ESCWA in 2020. The workshop aims to kick-off the process for shaping and developing the ADAICTS as a joint regional public good and to agree on the way forward with prospective partners. The participatory process will lead to the elaboration of the Unified Arab Digital Agenda for the ten coming years, expected to be finalized by the end of 2021, endorsed by the Arab ICT ministers and launched soon after.
5 December 2014	Regional Conference on Land Degradation Issues in the Arab Region
6 July 2020	The Sustainable Development Dialogues in the Arab Region – an ASDR 2020 series	The Sustainable Development Dialogues in the Arab Region is an ASDR 2020 webinar series organized by ESCWA and UN partners, to address priority issues of the region.
10 December 2019	High Level Seminar on the Future of Economic Statistics for the Arab region	The High-Level Seminar is co-organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and hosted by the General Authority of Statistics in Saudi Arabia. It will seek a collaborative regional response to the need for economic statistics that support evidence‐based policymaking within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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