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| 11 December 2014 |
Continued Cooperation on Transport |
As part of UN-ESCWA’s concerted efforts in transport on the regional level, an agreement was signed between UN-ESCWA, represented by Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy, and the Yemeni Ministry of Transport, represented by Minister Omar Mohsen Al Amoudi, to prepare an economic feasibility study for establishing an international railway network in Yemen. |
| 27 November 2019 |
Rethinking Inequality in Arab Countries |
The report adopts a multidimensional approach to assess outcome and opportunity inequality in the Arab states across non-income dimensions. |
| 14 July 2016 |
ESCWA Annual Report 2015 |
The 2015 Annual Report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) provides an overview to member States, stakeholders and the public at large of the organization’s objectives and achievements from the year 2015. |
| 22 June 2015 |
Regional Training Workshop on Capacity Development for Climate Change Negotiations for the Arab Countries |
The fourth regional training workshop in a series of workshops on Capacity Development for Climate Change Negotiations for the Arab Countries was held in Doha, Qatar during the period 19-21 May 2015 with the aim to provide a platform for knowledge exchange between experienced negotiators and junior staff from government institutions to increase the chances of successful future negotiations through national experiences and role play as well as develop a comprehensive overview of the outcomes and implications of the latest ad-hoc working groups' sessions that took place in 2015 and the COP |
| 5 December 2014 |
Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People |
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| 5 January 2021 |
Index Simulator for Policymakers in the Arab Region (ISPAR) |
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| 19 March 2018 |
Regional Capacity Building Workshop for members of the Sub-Committee on Gender and SDGs |
The ESCWA Center for Women, in collaboration with UN Women, the League of Arab States, the Swedish Institute in Alexandria and the United Nations Development Program is organizing a regional capacity building workshop for members of the UN-ESCWA Subcommittee on Gender on the implementation of SDG5. |
| 12 August 2015 |
Third UN Global Road Safety Week |
Under the auspices of Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities Nohad El Mashnouk, and on the occasion of the Third UN Global Road Safety Week, ESCWA convened a workshop in Beirut, which gathered political, cultural and artistic personalities. The workshop was launched with a choir of Abi Bakr Al Siddiq School students who performed traditional songs promoting road safety. Following the opening, attending personalities signed the "Child Declaration on Road Safety". |
| 15 December 2020 |
Big data readiness assessment National guide |
As frontier technologies led by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data which are enabled by connectivity and internet of everything are becoming the fashionable indicator of modernity, and are borderless crossing geographical and political boundaries, there is a normal tendency to catch the wave and capture part of the huge claimed advantages especially towards accelerating the achievement of the SDGs |
| 18 October 2019 |
Access to Finance for Municipalities – Nexus Thinking and Decentralization of Subnational Governments |
The Workshop addresses the growing need of subnational governments for decentralization in order to empower the formulation of needs-based solutions while concurrently facing circumstances of sub-par national governance, limited budgets and confined legal frameworks; including little consideration to gender mainstreaming and nexus-thinking. |