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| 11 December 2014 |
UNESCWA Conference Reviews Arab Gains in Housing |
The Director of the UNESCWA Sustainable Development and Productivity Division, Ms. Anhar Hegazi today said, “Despite the achievements of Arab countries in answering the basic needs of their populations, including providing housing, infrastructure, and social and service sectors as well as ensuring the continuity of these efforts, the absence of equal rights and the gap in answering the basic needs of various social segments represents a major threat to development results and to achieving sustainability. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Expert Group Meeting on Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Socio-Economic Development in the Arab Region |
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| 5 December 2014 |
High Level Meeting and Regional Seminar on the Implementation of 2008 SNA and Supporting Statistics in the Arab Region |
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and UNSD are cooperating to initiate the formulation of a national strategy and implementation programme for the 2008 SNA and supporting system-wide socio-economic statistics, in collaboration with the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics (AITRS), and the Statistics Department of the league of Arab States (LAS). The main objective of the initiative is strengthening the national statistical system (NSS) for improved policy making with the support of high policy-making in the Arab region. |
| 3 December 2018 |
Workshop highlights tools and actions to implement road safety in the Arab region |
Beirut, 28 November 2018 (Communication and Information Unit) – The number of road fatalities in the Arab region in 2013 increased by 1.05% compared with 2010, while it should have declined by 9.3% to achieve results consistent with the United Nations Road Safety Decade. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Flag-Raising Ceremony for Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia in front of UN House Executive Secretary Says Arab Integration Can no Longer Remain a Purely Intellectual Luxury |
Beirut, 18 September 2012 (ESCWA Communication and Information Unit) –UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ESCWA Rima Khalaf today said that full Arab integration, which takes into account its economic, social and cultural dimensions, can no longer remain a purely intellectual luxury. Rather, it is a strategic choice and a fundamental prerequisite of an Arab renaissance, which can provide security and welfare for people, and prosperity and invincibility for countries. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Kuwait Hosts Ninth Session of ESCWA Committee on Energy |
The ninth session of the ESCWA Committee on Energy will begin on 12 June 2013 at 10:00AM in the Regency Hotel of Kuwait City with the participation of representatives from member countries specialized in the field of Energy. The election of the session’s officers will follow in accordance with the Arabic alphabetical order employed by the United Nations, whereby Libya will assume the chairmanship of the Session, Lebanon and Egypt the vice-chairmanship and Morocco the role of rapporteur. |
| 21 April 2015 |
Justice and Equality for Women in the Arab Region |
"Towards Justice and Equality for Women in the Arab Region" was the title of the Arab High Level Conference on Beijing+20, which was hosted by the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 2 and 3 February 2015 at Sofitel Hotel, El-Gezirah. |
| 11 December 2014 |
KUWAIT HOSTS ACD SUMMIT |
On 15-17 October 2012, Kuwait City hosted the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit with the participation of the heads of 31 Asian countries, who gathered to exchange dialogue on various political, social, economic, scientific and media issues. |
| 26 September 2016 |
MDG+ Initiative: High Level Meeting on the Water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) |
The High Level Meeting is organized by ESCWA, ACWUA and LAS within the framework of the SIDA MDG+ Initiative to report on findings. |
| 1 October 2015 |
Regional Workshop on Assessment of Achievements and Future Perspectives for the Sustainability of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in the ESCWA Region |
Within the project Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in the ESCWA Region (AIGLE), ESCWA (the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) held the Workshop on Assessment of Achievements and Future Perspectives for the Sustainability of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in the ESCWA Region (AIGLE), in Beirut, from 21 to 22 December 2015. The Workshop aimed to discuss the achievements made within the AIGLE Academy project and |