Within the framework of the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region (RICCAR), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) is supporting a three-year multi-institutional collaborative project on the same topic. The SIDA-ESCWA Project is a central component of the Regional Initiative, which has been adopted as an inter-agency initiative by United Nations and League of Arab States organizations that is reported upon to the Arab Ministerial Water Council.

Upholding its outstanding performance in mainstreaming gender equality and empowering the women of the United Nations, ESCWA continues to be rated among the best performing entities, meeting or exceeding the requirements of the 17 indicators in the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. This framework, known as the UN-SWAP 2.0, updated the first edition, UN-SWAP 1.0 covering the period 2012-2017, continues to focus on the capacity, readiness and accountability of the UN system to mainstream gender equality in its work.

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     The Abstract presents socioeconomic data from the region at the macro-level, covering many topics. The figures were drawn from national and international sources.

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.