ESCWA Technology Centre’s technical committee held its meeting on 4 October 2016 in Amman, with experts representing regional organizations, scientific institutions, and research and industrial centres of 12 Arab countries. The meeting was held in accordance with the ETC Statute to give guidance to the Centre on its work plan and such technical issues that relate to its work. It was also meant to identify countries’ priorities in the areas of science, technology and innovation.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in collaboration with the Institut National de la Statistique (INS) in Tunisia, is organizing a training workshop on Short Term Economic Statistics during 14-17 November, 2016 in Tunis, Tunisia, in the context of implementation of the development account project that aims at strengthening capacities of member countries in the production and dissemination of Short Term Economics Statistics.
 

The 22nd Regional Coordination Mechanism in Doha on the 14th of December 2016.

In commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (2016), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), in partnership with the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World  at the Lebanese American University (LAU), ABAAD Resource Centre for Gender Equality, and UN-Women call on youth in the Arab region to participate in a video competition to raise awareness on violence against women.