Search Results
Website complete search | Advanced search
| 20 May 2015 |
Progress in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA Region: A Gender Lens |
Analysis of the causes and consequences of uneven progress towards the MDGs in the Arab region, which calls for the adoption gender-responsive and rights-based national development policies. |
| 3 May 2019 |
National Consultative Workshop on the Implementation of Beijing +25 |
|
| 5 December 2014 |
Management Training for the Iraqi Municipalities of Erbil and Basra |
UNESCWA Iraq Task Force has completed two management skills training workshops for the benefit of two groups of senior government and municipal officials from Erbil and Basrah. The two training workshops are part of the UN HABITAT project “Strengthening the Urban Sector in Iraq through Building Capacities in Municipal Planning and Management” that is funded by the UNDG Iraq Trust Fund. The participants of the two workshops will come back to follow-up modules at the end of the year. |
| 5 October 2018 |
Catalogue for Arab Gender Statistics |
The catalogue is a compilation of gender statistics related activities and outputs implemented by the Arab countries and the Statistics Division at the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). |
| 25 November 2019 |
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Opportunities and Challenges for Arab Youth and Women |
The study explores the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship among women and youth in the Arab region. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Launching of the Flagship publication Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and regional Integration in the Arab Countries, 2006 |
Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade, Sami Haddad,ESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy and GRID Chief Mr. Nazem Abdalla held a press conference launching the annual study prepared by UN-ESCWA entitled “Annual Review of Developments in Globalization and Regional Integration in the Arab Countries”. The press conference took place on Friday 18 May 2007 at the Safir Heliopolitan Hotel in Beirut |
| 15 December 2020 |
Webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and refugees in the Arab region |
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), in collaboration with the the members of the United Nations Issue-Based Coalition on Migration in the Arab Region, organized a webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on migrants and refugees in the Arab region. |
| 9 January 2017 |
Annual Review of Globalization and Regional Integration in ESCWA Member States, 2005 |
This study presents and analyses the level of integration of Arab economies into the global economy and the economic cooperation between the Arab countries. |
| 19 February 2016 |
Good Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals |
From 31 January to 5 February 2016 Istanbul hosted the workshop on “Good Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals.” Organized by ESCWA in collaboration the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Iraq, the workshop aimed at building the capacity of Iraqi public sectors institutions through helping officials to adapt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda to national context; incorporate participatory governance practices; and adopt an effective communication strategy that can promote public trust and the citizens’ engagement in the SDGs agenda. |
| 24 September 2018 |
ESCWA to celebrate enablers of communication on Translation Day |
Beirut, 24 September 2018 (Communication and Information Unit)—On 1 October, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) will be marking International Translation Day with dozens of translation and language professionals as well as students from Lebanon, in a bid to pay tribute to those who “make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, liv |