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| 23 May 2016 |
Promoting Green Energy Technology Market in Rural Areas |
Promoting Green Energy Technology Market in Rural Areas is the title of a workshop ESCWA is organizing on 24-25 May 2016, at the UN-House in Beirut. The Workshop, which will open at 9:30 tomorrow Tuesday 24 May 2016, aims at building the capacity of the public sector in Arab countries in order to enhance the sustainability of renewable energy penetration in rural areas by fostering sustainable renewable energy markets. The Workshop opens with remarks by Radia Sedaoui, Chief of the ESCWA Energy Section. |
| 20 May 2015 |
Review of Information and Communications Technology for Development in Western Asia, Issue No.4 |
Noting the impact of ICTs on social and economic development, this issue presents the four different dimensions for the use of technology in employment creation. It also focuses on initiatives undertaken by ESCWA in that regard, and on projects being implemented in the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen. Moreover, this Review highlights the major studies and activities carried out by ESCWA in that field, and emphasize the importance of developing the digital content industry in the Arab region. This issue addresses the preparations for and challenges of the second phase of the WSIS. |
| 7 January 2019 |
Trade performance and structure profiles: Tunisia |
This profile aims at assessing the trade performance and structure of Tunisia since 1995 based on a variety of indicators, including those recently created using highly granular, product-level merchandise trade data. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Sports for Development, Peace and Human Rights |
ESCWA Staff Council organized a ping-pong tournament in August, under the auspices of Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf. Fawzat Salloum of the Security and Safety Section and Naela Haddad of the Social Development Division won the final matches on the categories of men and women, respectively, and received their trophies from the Executive Secretary on 30 August 2012. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Moussa Visits UN-ESCWA, Meets Executive Secretary |
League of Arab States Secretary-General Amr Moussa held talks on Wednesday 21 November 2007 with UN-ESCWA Executive Secretary, Bader Omar Al-Dafa, at the UN House in Beirut. Following the meeting, Moussa told reporters that he came to Lebanon on a quick visit "amid circumstances known to all, and in view of the efforts that you have been following up on". Moussa was referring to talks with Lebanese officials on the presidential impasse. "I seized the opportunity to visit my friend Mr. Bader Omar Al-Dafa to congratulate him on his post as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations". |
| 8 December 2017 |
Peer Review Meeting Social Policy Report No. 2 : Proposed outline Integrated Social Policies Project |
The Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) is preparing Social Policy Report No. 2 entitled “Operationalizing Social Policy in the ESCWA Region”, part of the second phase of the Integrated Social Policies Project launched by ESCWA in 2002. |
| 16 April 2019 |
Trade performance and structure profiles: Oman |
This profile aims at assessing the trade performance and structure of Oman since 1995 based on a wide range of indicators, including those recently calculated using highly granular, product-level merchandise trade data. |
| 27 January 2020 |
Promoting Social Justice in the Arab Region through Capacity Building Interventions, Social Development Bulletin, Vol.7, No.3 |
This bulletin explores the connection between innovative capacity building and the ability of stakeholders to implement the SDGs. |
| 5 December 2014 |
Regional workshop on industrial statistics for the Arab countries |
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| 12 February 2019 |
Tools for Exante Trade Impact analysis |
The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the various tools used to ex-ante assessment of trade policies |
