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| 20 May 2015 |
Social Policy Brief, Issue No.3, International Migration of Youth in Arab Countries |
This brief deals with youth migration in Arab countries, as it reviews the reasons of this migration as well as the different mechanisms of its administration. In recent decades, Arab countries registered several social accomplishments that improved the living standards of a wide range of social categories. Through enhancing education opportunities for different social classes, countries managed to limit the gaps in school enrolment rates for both sexes, as well as between large and small cities and urban and rural areas. |
| 26 February 2015 |
Inter-regional workshop on good practices in gender statistics |
The Interregional Workshop on Good Practices in Gender Statistics is organized by the Statistics Divisions of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). |
| 21 April 2015 |
Promoting Food and Water Security through Cooperation and Capacity Development in the Arab Region: First Coordination Meeting of the Project |
The meeting aimed to introduce the project to potential partners and discuss modalities of cooperation. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Meeting on the Framework for Management Development in Iraq |
As part of the "Capacity Building of the Iraqi Public Sector Management" project, implemented in partnership with UNDP Iraq, ESCWA will hold a Meeting on the Framework for Management Development in Iraq on 21-23 March 2009 in Beirut, Lebanon. It is expected that the meeting will build upon the conclusions and outcomes of the Stakeholders Meeting scheduled on 15 March 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq, which involves the active participation of major public sector stakeholders concerned by public sector development, and aims to identify the needs and priorities of the public sector. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Expert Group Meeting Towards Assessing the Vulnerability of Water Resources to Climate Change in the Arab Region |
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| 16 January 2017 |
Evolution of opportunities for early childhood development in Arab countries |
This report contributes to the review of early childhood development (ECD) opportunities in the Arab region by expanding historical coverage and putting our existing knowledge regarding ECD opportunities in perspective of their longer-term trends. By combining country-level results across multiple survey waves, this study identifies new patterns regarding evolution of ECD opportunities in the Arab region during recent years. |
| 1 September 2014 |
Arab Society: A compendium of Social Statistics, No. 11 |
Arab Society: A Compendium of Social Statistics is the latest in a series of biennial compendia of the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Drawing on data provided mainly from national statistical offices, it focuses on issues of population, employment, housing conditions, education, health and culture. The eleventh issue of the Compendium pays special attention to education in ESCWA member countries. It presents education profiles for fourteen of the seventeen ESCWA member countries. |
| 26 March 2019 |
Participatory Workshop on the Political Participation of Lebanese Women |
ESCWA Centre for Women (ECW), in collaboration with the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), organized a consultative participatory workshop on Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Lebanon, on 4 April 2019 at the United House in Beirut.
The workshop brought together male and female representatives of the Lebanese political parties as well as independent political activists, in addition to members of NCLW. |
| 18 December 2018 |
Evaluating the capacity of Iraqi institutions in implementation and coordination |
The workshop aims to evaluate the capacity of institutions working in the health, education and labor sectors in addition to the municipal institution in Al-Hamdania district (Nineveh governorate) to meet the challenges of reconstruction and the integration of IDPs, based on an assessment of institutional capacities in the implementation of planned projects, and in addition to assessing the coordination capacities among different bodies, governmental and non-governmental and international organizations. |
| 11 December 2014 |
New Website on UNESCWA Regional Advisory Services |
UNESCWA has just launched a new website showcasing the activities of its Programme Planning and Technical Cooperation Division (PPTCD), which plays a support role in planning, coordinating and monitoring UNESCWA projects and activities. This website will provide access to UNESCWA services as well. |