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| 9 May 2012 |
ESCWA 27th Ministerial Session |
STATEMENT BY MS. RIMA KHALAF UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS Your Excellency Mr. Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Your Excellency Mr. Sultan bin Said al-Mansouri, Minister for Economic Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Your Excellency Mr. Saleh Kharabsheh, Director of the Ministry of Planning of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, |
| 2 January 2015 |
Partners |
ESCWA is an important regional actor in the field of economic and social development. To amplify the impact of its normative and operational work, the organization enters into different types of partnerships and collaborative ventures with a host of global, regional, national and local partners. They include member countries, development agencies, intergovernmental organizations and agencies within and outside the United Nations system, civil society organizations and the private sector. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Jordanian Capital Hosts Eighth Session of Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade, Economic Globalization and Financing for Development in the Countries of ESCWA Region |
The Jordanian capital, Amman, hosted the Eighth Session of the Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade, Economic, Globalization and Financing for Development in the Countries of the ESCWA Region from 7 to 8 October 2013. Attending the Session meetings were representatives of ministries of finance, ministries of economy, and central banks of member countries. Also present were representatives of relevant regional and international organizations. |
| 11 December 2014 |
ESCWA Proposes a Strategic Vision for Arab Integration and Renaissance A new report makes a powerful case for how integration can be realized and sustained |
On 25 February 2014, UN Undersecretary General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf launched from Tunis a remarkable report entitled “Arab Integration: A 21st Century Development Imperative” with the participation of Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, former Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and a crowd of political, economic, intellectual and public figures. Media representatives who took part in the ceremony received a press kit, which we will re-publish over five parts, in view of the importance of the issues the Report addresses. |
| 21 October 2020 |
Regional Workshop on Measuring SDG Indicators from Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration Data in Arab countries |
Global Programme in Support of the 2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration and Vital StatisticsUsing the technical report on “Measuring SDG Indicators through Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration Data” as a reference document, the workshop aims to discuss how to produce SDG indicators based on their metadata information. The workshop will also provide a platform to further elaborate on utilizing Population and Housing Censuses and Civil Registration Data for disaggregating SDG indicators and discuss the use of geospatial information and tools for generating relevant SDG indicators from such data. Ultimately the workshop will help to achieve a common and improved understanding of definitions and methods of computation of SDG indicators. |
| 11 December 2014 |
Eighth Session of the Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade, Economic, Globalization and Financing for Development in the Countries of the ESCWA Region Kicks Off |
The Eighth Session of the Technical Committee on Liberalization of Foreign Trade, Economic, Globalization and Financing for Development in the Countries of the ESCWA Region opened its deliberations in Amman this afternoon. Held at Kempinski Hotel, the Session is to close deliberations tomorrow Tuesday 8 October 2013. |
| 22 September 2017 |
Under the Auspices of the Lebanese President of the Council of Ministers the High-Level Conference on Climate Impact Assessment and Adaptation in the Arab Region to Open Next Tuesday |
Beirut, 22 September (Communication and Information Unit)—A crowd of ministers, high-level dignitaries and governmental and non-governmental experts will gather in Beirut next week to participate in the “High-Level Conference on Climate Impact Assessment and Adaptation in the Arab Region”, which ESCWA is co-organizing with 11 institutions under the auspices of Lebanese President of the Council of Ministers Saad Hariri, from 26 to 28 September at the Hilton Sin El Fil Hotel. |
| 4 February 2021 |
ESCWA and SDRPY meet with the Government of Yemen to support development in the country |
Beirut-Riyadh, 4 February 2021--The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) today held a meeting with the Government of Yemen and regional and international partners, including the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND), the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), the Islamic Development Bank ( |
| 5 December 2014 |
The Arab region participates in Rio+20 |
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| 5 December 2020 |
Consultative Workshop on the Planning for Undertaking the Population and Housing Census Using Technology in the Kingdom of Morocco |
The workshop will aim to achieve the following goals: |
