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| 12 August 2016 |
Enabling Policies to Promote Financing Renewable Energy Investments |
The objective of this regional seminar is to focus on policy reforms that can promote financing of renewable energy investments with the aim of strengthening the capacity of national and local policymakers. |
| 13 August 2016 |
Sustainable Energy Access for Rural Areas |
The workshop aims at discussing the outcomes of the UN Development Account (UNDA) project entitled “Building Capacities in Developing Appropriate Green Technologies for Improving the Livelihood of Rural Communities in the ESCWA Region”, and proposing the way forward, while providing a platform to debate and agree on an appropriate course of actions for building on the project accomplishments. |
| 15 August 2016 |
Meeting of the National Focal Points for the Project on Promoting Food and Water Security in the Arab Region |
The meeting provided an opportunity to brief national focal points about the project, its objectives and components and progress to date. In addition, focal points met project partners and shared their country experiences and views regarding planned activities under the project and the way forward.
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| 15 August 2016 |
Developing strong and inclusive institutional frameworks for the CRPD: ESCWA side event during the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties COSP9 |
This side event, organized during the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, focused on national institutional frameworks for implementing and monitoring the Convention. |
| 16 August 2016 |
Research Assistant, G6 (Temporary Job Opening) |
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| 16 August 2016 |
Conditional Cash Transfer Programmes in the Arab Region |
The international workshop participants discussed conditional cash transfer programmes as a tool to lift people in the Arab region out of poverty. |
| 17 August 2016 |
First Model ESCWA Session in Partnership with AUB Centre for Civic Engagement and Community Service |
ESCWA held a training program on Wednesday and Thursday 10 and 11 August 2016 at the American University of Beirut (AUB), as part of the overall training given to a group of the university students who will participate in Model ESCWA later this fall. The training and initiative are being held in partnership with the AUB Centre for Civic Engagement and Community Service |
| 17 August 2016 |
Gender Equality in the Sustainable Development Agenda (2030) on the Agenda of ESCWA, LAS and UN Women |
The Deputy Director of the ESCWA Centre for Women, Ms. Mehrinaz El-Awady, today said that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development may form a turning point in development policies in the world, underlining a shift in the philosophy of development from specific development policies linked to narrow thematic frameworks to more inclusive policies that require action in different fields. |
| 19 August 2016 |
Economic and Social Repercussions of the Israeli occupation (Note of the Secretary-General) - 2016 |
This 2016 annual report examines Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan and their socio-economic impact. |
| 20 August 2016 |
لا سلام في ظل استمرار إفلات إسرائيل من العقاب على انتهاكاتها |
أطلقت لجنة الأمم المتحدة الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لغربي آسيا (الإسكوا) على موقعها الإلكتروني مذكرة الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة التي تعدّها سنوياً حول الانعكاسات الاقتصادية والاجتماعية للاحتلال الإسرائيلي على الأحوال المعيشية للشعب الفلسطيني في الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة، بما فيها القدس الشرقية وللسكان العرب في الجولان السوري المحتل. |
