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11 December 2014	Executive Secretary Meets Lebanese Officials
28 August 2017	Executive Secretary Pays Official Visit to Egypt	United Nations Under-Secretary-General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Mohamed Ali Alhakim paid an official visit to Egypt on 22-24 August 2017 on top of a delegation comprising his Deputy for Program Support Khawla Mattar, ESCWA Secretary of the Commission Karim Khalil, Chief of Economic Governance and Planning Ahmed Kamaly and Team Assistant Zalfa Hobballah.
2 November 2018	Economic Governance for Entrepreneurs in the MENA Region: Prioritizing Policy Challenges	Identifying policy challenges and key policy measures to remedy in support of entrepreneurship in the Arab region.
20 May 2015	Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation for All: Regional Assessment Report on the Status and Achievements of ESCWA Member Countries towards Improved Water Supply and Sanitation	This report was prepared upon the request of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ). It presents an assessment of the achievements of ESCWA member countries towards improving the supply of safe drinking water and basic sanitation. It also highlights the major constraints and challenges impeding progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals-related target of halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
20 May 2015	Water Resources Issues in the ESCWA Region: Country Fact Sheets	The purpose of these Country Fact Sheets is to examine the water situation in the region, with particular emphasis on the desalination industry as a growing source of freshwater in many of the ESCWA countries. The Fact Sheets examine the trend in population growth, freshwater availability, and water use, highlighting the consumption trends of the most waterintensive sectors in each country. The desalination of each country is presented in terms of quantity produced, type of technology and type of feedwater used, and provides the predicted future desalination volume.
16 October 2020	Arab National Reporting Platforms for the Sustainable Development Goals: Assessment	SDGs National Reporting Platforms (NRPs) are essential to help member countries to achieve their national development goals and are crucial elements to monitor and report the progress towards achieving the SDGs at all levels.
27 December 2016	Economic Trends and Impacts in the ESCWA Region, Issue No. 2	This study presents an analysis of recent financial developments in the region, especially in the context of the capitalist framework that has been newly introduced.
1 December 2017	Expert Group Meeting to Review a Draft Study on “Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region”	The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held an expert group meeting to review a draft study on “Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region”, at the United Nations House, Beirut, on 26 and 27 June 2012. The meeting reviewed the draft study and solicited feedback from experts from the region. The meeting also included two presentations, one on the efforts of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote gender equality and another on gender in the workplace.
12 July 2017	The impacts of the introduction of value added tax in Gulf Cooperation Council countries	The idea of creating a value added tax in GCC countries is a recurrent idea that re-emerged with insistence recently. Indeed, the budgetary difficulties that GCC countries are facing in the aftermath of the 2014’s oil price chock convinced them to reform of their existing tax systems. In this regard, this study attempts to assess the economic and fiscal implication of the implementation of a 5 percent value added tax in six GCC countries.
20 May 2015	Guidelines on Gender Mainstreaming and Enhancing the Effectiveness of National Machineries for Women. Studies on Arab Women and Development (35)	This study is part of the efforts of the ESCWA Centre for Women to improve the performance of national committees on women and the relevant Arab ministries in mainstreaming gender into Government policies and programmes, and to follow up on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and subsequent conferences. The study provides a detailed analysis of the needs of those national committees and ministries, based on a survey.

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