The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held on 11 and 12 April 2017 an expert group meeting at the UN House in Beirut to discuss its upcoming report entitled “Disability in the Arab Region 2017: Strengthening Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities.”
 
The report will provide an update to the ESCWA first flagship report on Disability in the Arab Region, published in 2014 with the League of Arab States.
 

Under the framework of its efforts to support policies, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) took part on 28 and 29 March 2017 in a workshop on Data Systems, Supporting Decision-making, and Economic Modeling, in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
 
The workshop delved into the key components of the project through discussion round tables involving a large number of academicians and experts in Sudan as well as representatives of the Presidency, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held its first consultative meeting on “Food Security Assessment and Monitoring in the Arab Region” on 11 and 12 April 2017 at the UN House in Beirut.
 

On 4 and 5 April ESCWA held the 12th session of its Statistical, at the UN House, Beirut. The meeting launched the first Arabic-language Gender Statistics Toolkit and eLearning module.
 
The opening session of the meeting saw two statements by Director of the ESCWA Statistics Division Juraj Riecan and President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Ola Awad, delivered on her behalf by PCBS Director General a.i Muhammad Al Omari.