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11 December 2014	Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development to be Discussed in Regional Meeting Hosted by ESCWA	The Amman based ESCWA Technology Centre will host the Regional Preparatory Meeting for Western Asia in support of the 2013 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) under the theme: “Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Potential of Culture, for Promoting Sustainable Development and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),” on 26 November 2012 from 1:30-5:15, at El-Hassan Science City, Hashemite Auditorium.
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:
11 December 2014	Sixth Middle East Businesswomen and Leaders Achievement Awards
2 October 2017	Costing the Economic Impact of Violence against Women in the Arab Region to Be Released This Week	Date: Monday, October 2, 2017 Beirut, Lebanon October 4, 2017-18:30 (Beirut Time) - Beirut Sursock Museum
11 April 2018	UN capacity building course to spotlight innovation policies for SDGs in the Arab region	Beirut, 11 April 2018 (Communication and Information Unit) – How innovation policies can support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is set to be a core focus of a five-day capacity building course organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) from 15 to 19 April in Amman, Jordan, in partnership with the UN-Inter-Agency Task
20 April 2018	Arab Forum for Sustainable Development to open on Tuesday with focus on natural resources	Beirut, 20 April 2018 (Communication and Information Unit)--- On Tuesday, the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the United Nations’ regional arm that supports Arab countries in reaching crucial development goals, is welcoming a record number of participants at its headquarters in Beirut for its annual Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD).
11 December 2014	ESCWA Opens Technology Centre in Jordan
11 December 2014	Local Community Development in Yemen
12 February 2020	Regulatory, Institutional and Financial Frameworks Needed to Promote Small-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies and Applications for Rural Development	Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in Rural Areas of the Arab Region (REGEND)” Project, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) and the General Commission for Regional Development (CGDR), is organizing a National Policy Workshop on “Regulatory, Institutional and Financial Frameworks Needed to Promote Small-Scale Renewable Energy Technologies and Applications for Rural Development”. The workshop will support the development of a policy case study for Tunisia and provide guidelines to conceptualize REGEND’s Policy Toolkit as Regional Strategic Guidelines to improve the enabling environment for the private sector and women entrepreneurs to invest in income-generating activities by increasing the use of small-scale RE technologies and applications in productive activities in the rural areas.
5 December 2014	National Conference on Decentralization and Local Governance in Iraq

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