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5 December 2014	First Meeting of the Steering Committee and Workshop on Progress of Societies	ESCWA, in collaboration with the Arab Institute for Training and Research for Statistics (AITRS), are organizing two back-to-back meetings; the 1st Meeting for the Steering Committee and Workshop on Progress of Societies at the Kempinski Hotel in Amman from 3 to 4 October 2008.
11 December 2014	Jordanian Capital Hosts Four Major ESCWA Events	The Jordanian capital Amman will host four major events for the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) from Sunday 6 October until Sunday 13 October 2013. The ESCWA Communication and Information Unit will issue press releases to shed light on these activities, which are listed in detail below: - Expert Group Meeting on New Sources of Development Finance in the Arab Region (6-7 October 2013, Kempinski Hotel);
6 December 2018	Training on Technology Transfer and Innovation to support Excellence and Innovation Units in Yemen
11 December 2014	UN-House in Beirut to Host a UN-ESCWA Regional Workshop on DevInfo	UN-ESCWA considers that there is an urgent need for member countries to enhance their capacities in compiling, disseminating and exchanging data and metadata. In this sense, the DevInfo statistical program provides the statistical community with a tool for effective working partnership among different data producers to facilitate exchanging a unified official statistics to relevant agencies and the regional commission in the region.
5 December 2014	Time Use Surveys Working Group Workshop	ESCWA Statistics Division is organizing the Arab Working Group on Time Use Statistics (WG_TUS) Workshop at the Sofitel El Gezirah Hotel in Cairo, Egypt from 13 to 15 November 2012 as per recommendations of the Workshop on TUS in Arab Countries, organized by ESCWA in close collaborating with UNSD in 2011. http://www.escwa.un.org/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNum=1551E
11 December 2014	Senior Officials Segment of Commission’s 27th Session Concludes, Accepts Tunisia as New Member	Beirut, 8 May 2012 (ESCWA Communication and Information Unit)— The member countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) unanimously accepted the Republic of Tunisia as a member of the Commission, to be brought up to the United Nations Economic and Social Council for final approval. Meanwhile, member countries also welcomed each of Libya’s and Morocco’s requests to join ESCWA. This step final approval by the ministerial Session Wednesday and reviewing in the member countries’ capitals before a final decision is made.
7 August 2019	Context-based Technologies to Enhance the Efficiency and Resilience of Agri-food Systems in Lebanon
24 June 2016	Web-conference on Land Degradation Neutrality to celebrate World Day to Combat Desertification 2016	On the occasion of the 2016 World Day to Combat Desertification, ESCWA organized the web conference to highlight this challenge for the Arab region.
11 December 2014	ESCWA Executive Secretary: Global Economic Crisis Creates Many Hurdles for MDGs	The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit was held in New York from 20 to 22 September, and it was considered a landmark event since the MDGs seek to halve the number of poor people and to achieve significant targets in the areas of education, health, gender equality, sustainable development and the environment by 2015.
6 December 2017	Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region	The Expert Group Meeting on the Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region (Beirut, 1-2 December 2009) was organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) within the work programme of the Social Policy in the City Team. The main purpose of the meeting was to review the use of urban observatories within a framework of social policy and sustainable urbanization.

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