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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). |
| 20 May 2015 |
Charting the Progress of the Millennium Development Goals in the Arab Region: A Statistical Portrait, 2009 |
This report provides indepth analysis of the gains and setbacks on the path towards achieving the MDGs. The report sets out a comparison of subnational, national, subregional and regional trends, providing policymakers and planners with insight, and serving as a source of information to stimulate regional cooperation opportunities that support member countries in their efforts to achieve the MDGs. |
| 25 January 2018 |
Leaders of ESCWA and Lebanese Ministry of Industry meet to strengthen relations |
The Executive Secretary of ESCWA and the Lebanese Minister of Industry met on Wednesday in Beirut to discuss reinforcing cooperation, especially in terms of planning and implementing programs that can support economic and social development in Lebanon. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Lebanese Officials to Launch UNESCWA E-Caravan Project |
Lebanese Minister of Communication Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs Nayla Mouawad and UNESCWA Executive Secretary Mervat Tallawy will launch the E-Caravan project for South Lebanon during a press conference at 11:00am Wednesday, 18 January 2006, at the UN House, Beirut. The project is implemented in cooperation with “Fondation Saradar”. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Workshop on Use of SDMX and DevInfo Reporting |
The increased demand to address discrepancies between national and international MDG data, together with the availability of new MDG tools to perform the exchanges using SDMX; as well as the request of capacity building in this field by countries, an Arab workshop on the Use of SDMX and DevInfo for MDG Data Reporting by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organized in close collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division, and the African Development Bank, in Amman, from 10 to 14 July, 2011 and hosted in the Department of Statistics Jordan. |
| 11 December 2014 |
UNITAR and UNESCWA to Train Arab and Foreign Diplomats |
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in cooperation with UNESCWA, is organizing a training workshop for the diplomatic community based in Beirut entitled “Conference Diplomacy” from 21 to 23 June 2006 at the United Nations House, Riadh El Solh Square. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Basil Fuleihan Institute, ESCWA Launch Public Finance Management Reference Guide |
Lebanese Minister of Finance Rayya Hassan and ESCWA Executive Secretary Bader AlDafa will open a regional workshop on “Public Finance Reform: A Roadmap for Modernization and Good Governance.” The workshop, co-organized by ESCWA and the Basil Fuleihan Institute (IOF), is scheduled to open at 15:00 on Monday 31 May 2010 at the Institute's premises in Beirut. The opening will witness the launch of a reference guide on ‘Best Practices in Public Finance Management’. |
| 6 May 2021 |
Regional Nexus Approaches to Building Back Better |
The UN Environment Management Group (EMG), in close collaboration with UNEP, UNEP-FI, UNESCAP, UNECE, UNECA, ECLAC, ESCWA, and RCNYO, is organizing a 3-part series of virtual Nexus Dialogues on Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment. |
| 19 February 2016 |
Assessing the National Statistical System in Egypt |
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century Program (PARIS21) and the African Development Bank have established a multi-organization team coordinated by PARIS21 upon the request of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). |