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| 15 May 2019 |
Policy Briefs on Food Security Issues in the Arab Region |
This compendium of briefs proposes policy options based on major trends, scenarios and interventions to sustainably respond to the Arab region’s food security challenges by highlighting key approaches to sustainable, context-based and climate-smart agricultural production interventions best suited to Arab States, outlining key options for optimizing engagement with world food markets that could be adapted to Arab countries and tackling issues of food loss and waste. |
| 5 December 2014 |
EGM on Development Under Crisis Conditions |
The Expert Group Meeting on “Development Under Crisis Conditions” (Beirut, 27-28 June 2006) aimed at reaching a common understanding of the impact of conflict on socio-economic and political development in the region. It also sought to identify means of assisting member states in pursuing their Millennium Development Goals despite instability and political volatility. The meeting examined comparative experiences with development implementation under crisis conditions in three locales: Iraq, the Palestinian Territories, and Lebanon. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Training Workshop on Environment Statistics and Water Accounts Central Statistical Organization |
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| 5 December 2014 |
Training for trainers on Energy Statistics and Balance GCCSTAT – ESCWA – IEA - UNSD |
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| 11 December 2014 |
Dubai Hosts the Arab Regional Implementation Meeting |
How do the resolutions of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO +20) held in Brazil in June 2012 reflect on the Arab region? |
| 11 December 2014 |
Sixth Middle East Businesswomen and Leaders Achievement Awards |
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| 15 January 2015 |
Economic Statistics |
The Economics Statistics Section works to build the statistical capacity of member States, and to update national accounts systems. The section collects annual national statistics from member States on gross domestic product and GDP growth, gross value added |
| 20 May 2015 |
Demographic Profile of the Arab Countries: Analysis of the Ageing Phenomenon |
The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) drawn up at the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002 outlined a global agenda to deal with the issues of elderly populations. The Plan of Action on Ageing called for a new approach to policies and programmes for older persons in the wake of the demographic changes experienced in countries all over the world. Many regions of the world have witnessed a rapid increase in life expectancy and as a result a phenomenal growth of their populations during the second half of the last century. |
| 16 November 2017 |
Executive Secretary Visits Former PM Fouad Siniora |
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Mohamed Ali Al-Hakim visited on 14 November 2017 former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora. Both sides discussed the ESCWA current and upcoming activities. *****
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| 17 October 2019 |
Women in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 |
Beirut, 14 October 2019 (ESCWA)--As part of the support it extends to Arab States in their efforts towards achieving gender equality and full participation of women in the public life, ESCWA hosted a seminar organized by the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Beirut, at the UN House, on “Women in Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030”. |