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| 20 May 2015 |
Strengthening Development Coordination Among Regional Actors in The ESCWA Region |
Arab Gulf countries are heavily dependent on food imports. |
| 26 February 2015 |
Regional Workshop on Integrating a Gender Perspective in the Production of Statistics, in cooperation with the Department of Statistics, Jordan |
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), in collaboration with the Jordan Department of Statistics (DOS), organized a regional workshop on Integrating a Gender Statistics in the Production of Statistics. This regional workshop is intended to train national statisticians on the production and use of gender statistics, as well as discuss the newly developed UN manual: Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics. |
| 14 March 2017 |
Committee on Water Resources, 12th session |
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) is organizing the twelfth session of the Committee on Water Resources from 22 to 24 March 2017 Kempinski Amman, Jordan. |
| 20 April 2021 |
Series of Webinars on selected SDG Indicators for the Arab Region: ESCWA-UNICEF SDG4.2.1 |
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA ), in collaboration with UN Agencies, custodians of SDG indicators, is organizing a series of webinars on selected SDG indicators that are less produced in the Arab region to create a common understanding among data producers on how to collect, measure and disseminate SDG indicators to increase data production and enhance national data flow to policy makers, other users and custodian agencies. The main objectives of the regional training are: |
| 17 February 2017 |
International Women’s Day: Be bold for change |
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asian (ESCWA) organizes every March an annual event to mark the International Women’s Day. This event is organized in recognition of the role played by Women in the Arab region and their efforts towards realizing wellbeing and prosperity for her community and nation. This year’s event, which takes place in a delicate time in the region’s history, carries the theme: Empowering Women, Empowering a Nation: Be bold for change. |
| 20 April 2021 |
Series of Webinars on selected SDG Indicators for the Arab Region: ESCWA-FAO SDG2.a.1 |
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA ), in collaboration with UN Agencies, custodians of SDG indicators, is organizing a series of webinars on selected SDG indicators that are less produced in the Arab region to create a common understanding among data producers on how to collect, measure and disseminate SDG indicators to increase data production and enhance national data flow to policy makers, other users and custodian agencies. The main objectives of the regional training are: |
| 20 May 2015 |
Analysis of Performance and Assessment of Growth and Productivity in the ESCWA Region, Fifth Issue |
The disappointing growth in the ESCWA region during the 1980s and 1990s was, in part, due to the failure to balance the decline in investment with an equivalent increase in human capital. The latest issue in this series analyses three member States - Egypt, Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic - over the period 1975-2000 and concludes that investment and human capital were the main sources of long-term growth and that, while total factor productivity was low, it was not negative. |
| 24 March 2021 |
Arab Regional Food Systems Dialogue |
The Arab regional dialogue will be organized around the five action tracks of the Summit and examine them through the lens of the different stakeholders (NGO, research and academia, government, private sector, etc.), and will consider cross-cutting issues such as finance, innovation, and empowerment of youth, women, and other vulnerable groups. |
| 11 December 2014 |
UN-ESCWA to Hold Road Safety Workshop in Cairo |
UN-ESCWA in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), is holding a workshop on “Capacity-Building of National Focal Points” from 20 to 21 December 2006 at the Kuwait Conference Hall, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo. |
| 1 April 2019 |
Jordan: Open Government and Open Data |
This workshop focused on open government and open data. It brought together stakeholders from government, non-government organizations and the private sector in Jordan.
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