On 5 June 2012, ESCWA hosted a lecture on the book “Public Health in the Arab World.”
Invited by ESCWA Staff Council, Mr. Samer Jabbour, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, delivered a lecture on the book, which he edited together with Ms. Rita Giacaman, Professor at the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University and Mr. Iman Nuwayhid, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, and Mr. Marwan Khawaja, ESCWA Chief of Social Statistics Section.

Beirut, 13 December 2017
 
What: Launching press breifing of the annual ESCWA report on the Survey of Economic and Social Developments 2016-2017.
 
When: At 1:00 PM on Wednesday 13 December 2017
 
Where: ESCWA headquarters, Riad el-Solh Square, Beirut
 
Who:
-United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Mohamed Ali Alhakim;

The Economic Statistics section at ESCWA organized a regional workshop on implementation of the international standard industrial classification for all economic activities (ISIC rev.4) for Arab countries, together with the Arab Institute for Training and Statistical Research (AITRS), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in Amman, Jordan, from 28 September to 1 October 2014.

Lebanese Minister of Finance Rayya Hassan and ESCWA Executive Secretary Bader AlDafa will open a regional workshop on “Public Finance Reform: A Roadmap for Modernization and Good Governance.” The workshop, co-organized by ESCWA and the Basil Fuleihan Institute (IOF), is scheduled to open at 15:00 on Monday 31 May 2010 at the Institute's premises in Beirut. The opening will witness the launch of a reference guide on ‘Best Practices in Public Finance Management’.