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14 January 2021	Capacity-Building Workshop of the Municipality of Chorbane on Planning, Management, and Finance	Within the framework of the “Regional Initiative for Promoting Small-Scale Renewable Energy Applications in Rural Areas of the Arab Region (REGEND)” project, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the General Commission for Regional Development (CGDR) and the National Agency for Energy Conservation (ANME) in Tunisia, is organizing a capacity-building workshop of the Municipality of Chorbane on planning, management, and finance (diagnosis, participatory local planning, gender integration, administrative and financial management, and development of sources of finance, …). This workshop aims to build/enhance the knowledge and practical capacities of a group of participants that includes some members of the elected municipal council of the municipality of Chorbane (Governorate of Mahdia, Republic of Tunisia) and some of the administrative/financial staff of the municipality, in relation with the best mechanisms for diagnosis and participatory municipal planning while ensuring Gender inclusion. The workshop will provide participants with theoretical knowledge and practical experience regarding methods and techniques for mobilizing traditional and non-traditional funds, including international cooperation funding and grants, in particular in the fields of food, energy and water, through the adoption of modern training methods that integrate technical theoretical presentations and practical training through case studies and work groups.
15 January 2021	2nd Joint ESCWA-UNCTAD-OECD Competition Forum for the Arab Region
18 January 2021	Sub-regional Training Webinars on Reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
21 January 2021	Webinar on Social Justice and Social Protection in the Arab Region
21 January 2021	Capacity building toolkit on the analysis and measurement of a socio-economic inequalities in the Arab region	The toolkit offers the concepts, tools, and practical models needed for measuring inequality. It also explains how the requisite indicators, data and classifications can be employed for measuring inequality in the areas of income, health, education, work, and social protection to reduce the social and economic impacts of inequality in the Arab countries.
21 January 2021	Toolkit on the design and implementation of equality-oriented policies in the Arab countries	This toolkit provides a set of practical modules, skills, and tools necessary for formulating and implementing public policies and programmes based on equality. The toolkit also reviews the process of mainstreaming equality into policies and programmes and the conditions for their success. In addition, it examines the importance, requirements and principles of a participatory based approach to policymaking and provides practical examples on how to mainstream equality in the policy evaluation process and during the reform of current social and economic policies. The toolkit also showcases a set of global experiences that have succeeded in mainstreaming equality within their socio-economic policies.
23 January 2021	Proposed Arab Digital Agenda: Preliminary Framework for the Arab Information and Communication Technology Strategy for Sustainable Development	This document entitled “Proposed Arab Digital Agenda: Preliminary Framework for the Arab ICT Strategy for Sustainable Development” presents ESCWA's proposal for a set of ICT objectives and targets to promote digital development and hence support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Arab region. It presents an overview of existing similar regional digital agendas in the world and proposes an agenda revolving around five pillars, that meets the needs of the Arab region. If implemented, the proposed actions could accelerate the attainment of the associated relevant developmental goals.
23 January 2021	Supporting institutions in tackling weakness and fragilities: methodology for institutional capacity assessment	Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) attributes great importance to institutional reform to assist member States’ Governments in building public institutions’ capacity and their financial and human resources, and in strengthening the professional competencies of leaders and employees in the public sector and the civil service.
25 January 2021	Statistical Committee, 14th session	The 14th session of the Statistical Committee will be held online over two days, on 10 and 11 February 2021. At its 14^th session, the Statistical Committee will follow up on progress in statistical activities in member States and the ESCWA secretariat since its previous session, which was held in Beirut in January 2019. It will also discuss monitoring challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), regional priorities for the coming years in the field of statistics and an ESCWA guide for a general law on official statistics for Arab States.
25 January 2021	Committee on Technology for Development, 3rd session	The 3rd session of the Committee on Technology for Development will be held online over two days, on 15 and 16 February 2021.

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