The methodological framework presented in this guidance document outlines the integrated assessment approach being implemented in support of the Regional Initiative for the Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Vulnerability in the Arab Region. The approach combines climate change impact assessment and vulnerability assessment tools into a five step integrated assessment methodology that is based on global climate modelling, regional climate modelling, hydrological modelling, vulnerability analysis and integrated mapping tools.

On the basis of the outcome of the first coordination meeting, the second coordination meeting discussed te details of the input and substantive contribution of the partners in the implementation phase.

UNESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy is slated to be the keynote speaker at a conference on the Political Participation of Muslim Women in the UK and Abroad. The two-day event is co-hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group at the British Houses of Parliament and the Barrow Cadbury Trust at the House of Commons on 21 and 22 March 2006.

The fourteenth session of the Committee on Transport of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) was held in Amman, on 9 and 10 October 2013. It discussed items on the session agenda, namely the progress in implementing the recommendations of its previous session; the harmonization of institutional frameworks and legislation in the transport sector in the region; and methods to monitor the implementation of the Agreement on International Roads in the Arab Mashreq.