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| 30 August 2018 |
Case Study on Policy Reforms to Promote Renewable Energy in Morocco |
The growing energy demand in Morocco, coupled with a high dependency on imported fossil fuels is increasingly challenging the country’s sustainable energy management. |
| 15 August 2019 |
Arab Gender Lens 2019 Pocketbook: A Statistical Portrait of the Western Asia Region |
This pocketbook is designed to serve as a source of information on the issues of gender and women’s empowerment in the Arab region. |
| 20 May 2015 |
Review of Information and Communications Technology for Development in Western Asia, Issue No. 11 |
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| 2 April 2014 |
Promoting the Empowerment of Marginalized Social Groups in the Arab Region |
This pamphlet examines key issues related to the empowerment of three marginalized social groups in the Arab region: youth, older people and persons with disabilities. |
| 24 June 2013 |
ESCWA Annual Report - 2012 |
2012 Annual report focuses on ESCWA activities that meet the priority needs of member countries. In addition to undertaking specific projects, ESCWA mobilized a regional knowledge base and prepared country plans upon request. Through those efforts, ESCWA supported member countries in economic development, food security, gender, information and communication technology, the Millennium Development Goals, national dialogue, social development, trade, transport, water and environment, and statistics. |
| 20 May 2015 |
The Impacts of the International Financial and Economic Crisis on ESCWA Member Countries: Challenges and Opportunities |
This paper describes the direct and indirect effects of the international financial and economic crisis on ESCWA member countries. |
| 8 June 2016 |
Arab Development Outlook: Vision 2030 |
This report explores the future political and developmental scenarios facing the Arab region five years after the uprisings. |
| 20 May 2015 |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Background Paper on Global Strategy for Energy Efficiency Market Formation to Mitigate Climate Change |
The present report is a draft global strategy to promote market formation and self-financing Energy Efficiency (EE) improvements for implementation through the Regional Commissions (RCs) of the United Nations (UN) system. These are the United Nations Commissions for Europe, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (UNESCWA). |
| 18 March 2015 |
Institutional frameworks for managing selected energy subsectors in Arab countries: Fact Sheet |
This fact sheet addresses the institutional structure of selected energy subsectors, namely electricity, energy efficiency and renewable energy, the related policy and governance measures, and decision-making mechanisms in the Arab countries. It also looks at planning, efficiency and renewable energy issues, the degree of independence of regulatory bodies where they exist and State-sector reform. |
| 17 March 2016 |
Knowledge Society: ESCWA activities in 2015 Newsletter, Issue No.2, March 2016 |
The newsletter on the knowledge society presents updates on the main activities of the Technology for Development Division (TDD) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). In its second issue, the newsletter provides briefings on the activities of TDD for 2015, under its thematic clusters of work, covering the three TDD entities, namely the Innovation Section, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Policy Section, and the ESCWA Technology Centre (ETC). It also presents the regional advisory services on technology for development. |