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| 19 October 2017 |
Climate Change-Related Statistics in the Arab Region: A Proposed Set of Indicators |
This report proposes a set of relevant, feasible and consistent climate change-related indicators for compilation by all countries in the region. |
| 21 March 2019 |
ESCWA Arab High-level Forum concludes with calls to use technologies to accelerate sustainable development |
Beirut, 20 March 2019 (ESCWA)--The Second Arab High-level Forum on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development today concluded at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) while urging to make use of digital technologies in order to accelerate sustainable developmen |
| 15 December 2020 |
Egypt 4th national training workshop to improve use of gender statistics |
The national training workshop aims to improve technical capabilities in using gender statistics to monitor SDG gender indicators and in disseminating, communicating and using statistics and indicators. The workshop will cover topics such as: integrating a gender perspective into official statistics; presenting, disseminating and communicating gender statistics; and improving gender statistics literacy among data users. |
| 11 December 2014 |
UN Assistant Secretary-General Visits Beirut |
Ms. Mervat Tallawy, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of UNESCWA, today met with Ms. Jan Beagle, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management. Ms. Beagle is on an official visit to Lebanon (5-8 June 2006). |
| 20 May 2015 |
Labour Market Data: Structures and Challenges in the ESCWA Region |
This paper provides part of the research feeding into the fourth Integrated Social Policy Report, published in December 2011 by the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). The availability of labour market data and the principal challenges facing labour markets in the ESCWA member countries are the main focus of the paper. The labour force in the ESCWA member countries is changing rapidly, due to the combined pressures of an increasing number of individuals of working age, higher levels of female labour participation and changing patterns of migration.
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| 20 May 2015 |
Report of the Workshop on Macroeconomic Simulations for MDG Achievement, Beirut, 28-29 September 2011 |
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| 29 June 2015 |
Measuring sustainable development in the Arab region: A review of country experiences and recommendations for monitoring and evaluation Post-2015 |
The objective of this report is to provide a concise assessment of sustainable development monitoring and evaluation in the Arab region and discuss the implications of the post-2015 agenda. The report presents a series of recommendations intended to identify actions required in the region to prepare it to effectively undertake development monitoring and evaluation after 2015. |
| 15 March 2016 |
Stakeholders Coordination Meeting on the sub regional project "Participatory Human Development in Post-Conflict Countries" |
The stakeholder analysis produced a strategic view of relevant stakeholders in the selected post-conflict countries, including line ministries, local authorities and civil society organizations, and identified all primary and secondary stakeholders who have a vested interest in the issues in which the project is concerned. |
| 22 December 2017 |
Rethinking Fiscal Policy for the Arab Region |
The report on “Rethinking Fiscal Policy in the Arab Region” asks whether or not current fiscal policies in the Arab region are up to the task of the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It finds that the answer is mostly no—at least not yet. Many countries are lagging behind in connecting fiscal policy and development aims. |
| 12 October 2018 |
Assessing Arab Economic Integration: Trade in Services as a Driver of Growth and Development |
Economic integration is an important means to generate income and employment, to boost investment and to spur structural transformation toward more diversified and broad-based economic models. Services do not only satisfy domestic consumption and investment demands but are also exported and used as intermediate inputs and, through their vital impact on the productive efficiency of other sectors, services are a determining factor in a country’s participation in international production networks. Coupled with the fact that the services sector tend to account for rather large and growing shares of output, employment, and foreign direct investment, services remain a key area in deeper regional economic integration efforts to reap sizable socio-economic benefits. |