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| 2 January 2015 |
Planning & Monitoring |
Results-Based ManagementAs part of the Secretary-General’s drive to focus on results-based management, emphasizing results over output and thereby aiming to enhance transparency and programme delivery, ESCWA has adopted the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Plan - refers to the setting of a strategic vision and operational frameworks Do - represents the implementation of the annual strategy through work plans, which include ongoing performance monitoring |
| 18 September 2015 |
Food Security and Nutrition |
The Arab region faces a number of structural challenges to food security and nutrition. These include high population growth rates, a limited natural resource base, especially with regard to land and water, the impact of climate change and the heavy reliance of international markets on food imports. The region also has a relatively high prevalence of undernourishment, caused by nutrient deficiencies and is relatively unique in the sense that obesity and the problems associated with it are on the increase. |
| 25 September 2017 |
Arab Sustainable Development Report |
ESCWA is mandated to prepare a regional report on the 2030 Agenda - The Arab Sustainable Development Report - at regular intervals in support of follow-up and review at the regional level. |
| 2 January 2015 |
Governing and Advisory Bodies |
The ESCWA intergovernmental machinery consists of the Commission as the highest body within the organization and, reporting to it, the subsidiary bodies of the Commission, which are the legislative and consultative committees. Pursuant to resolutions 158 (XIV) of 5 April 1987 and 196 (XVII) of 31 May 1994, the Commission sits once every two years, in even years. Since 2006, sessions have been convened in two segments, a high officials segment and a ministerial segment. |
| 25 November 2014 |
About ESCWA |
The five regional commissions were created by the United Nations in order to fulfil the economic and social goals set out in the Charter by promoting cooperation and integration between countries in each region of the world. Those commissions are: the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE, established in 1947); the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, 1947); the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, 1948); the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA, 1958); and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA, 1973). |
| 2 January 2015 |
Technical Cooperation |
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| 18 September 2015 |
International Migration |
In order to co-ordinate efforts on international migration and displacement and to ensure that these efforts are complementary and mutually-reinforcing, agencies in the United Nations system have begun to create structures to ensure global and regional collaboration on migration-related work. The Working Group on International Migration in the Arab Region, co-chaired by UN-ESCWA, the League of Arab States and the International Organization for Migration, brings together 19 participating agencies: |
| 18 September 2015 |
SDG Data |
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| 6 February 2015 |
Internship programme |
IMPORTANT NOTE |
| 26 February 2015 |
Library |
The Library collection constitutes of printed and electronic materials, mainly English and Arabic, related to socio-economic development of ESCWA member states, it also includes ESCWA publications and documents, in addition to United Nations Publications and releases of other UN Regional Commissions and UN specialized agencies. |