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20 February 2021 |
Study on Gender Mainstreaming, Social Inclusion, Human Rights Processes and Outcomes of Access to Energy in Targeted Local Communities in Tunisia |
This report presents the findings of a detailed review and analysis of gender issues associated with energy services in Tunisia. It calls attention to the challenges and barriers rural women face in employment and entrepreneurship in energy sectors. It also highlights the potential for gender mainstreaming and identifies opportunities to support the local private sector, and to promote and expand the use of small-scale renewable energy technologies, while emphasizing the environmental and climate benefits associated with them. |
20 May 2015 |
Mapping Inequity: Persons with Physical Disabilities in Jordan |
Worldwide and in the ESCWA region, persons with physical disabilities face higher levels of unemployment, lower levels of education and higher infant mortality rates than the rest of the population. In the ESCWA region, both the documentation of the hardships faced by persons with disabilities and the analysis of the triggers of their exclusion are often scarce. |
20 May 2015 |
Social Policy Brief, Issue No.3, International Migration of Youth in Arab Countries |
This brief deals with youth migration in Arab countries, as it reviews the reasons of this migration as well as the different mechanisms of its administration. In recent decades, Arab countries registered several social accomplishments that improved the living standards of a wide range of social categories. Through enhancing education opportunities for different social classes, countries managed to limit the gaps in school enrolment rates for both sexes, as well as between large and small cities and urban and rural areas. |
23 September 2020 |
Syria at War: Eight Years On |
The “Syria at War: Eight Years On” report is the second product of the collaboration between the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Centre for Syrian Studies (CSS) at the University of St Andrews. It is the result of extensive research by scholars and experts and benefited from the National Agenda for the Future of Syria (NAFS) Programme’s platform for technical dialogue between a broad spectrum of Syrian stakeholders aimed at moving towards consensus beyond the polarizations of the conflict period. |
29 June 2015 |
Inclusive Social Development |
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23 January 2020 |
ESCWA Disability Framework: 115 indicators to bridge the gap between policy and statistics |
ESCWA Disability Framework: 115 indicators to bridge the gap between policy and statistics, is the first three-dimensional disability framework that maps disability-related indicators to three major development frameworks: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Framework and its 115 indicators embodies a major step forward in bridging the gap between policy and statistics and monitor progress made. The Framework will be an important tool for guiding efforts at the national, regional and global levels to harmonize the production of comparable data. It will facilitate reporting on the situation of persons with disabilities in critical disability-inclusive development goals. These include inclusive education, employment, empowerment, health and justice. The framework will, through improved disability statistics, provide a clearer picture to compare persons with disabilities and those with no disabilities. The framework will also assist data producers to provide valuable and better information for policymakers to ensure that all people with disabilities everywhere and anywhere are indeed included. |
7 November 2018 |
Fostering Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises in the Arab Region |
The report describes the role of innovation policies in enhancing Arab MSMEs, and defines approaches to foster innovation in these enterprises, against the backdrop of SDG8 and SDG9. |
16 December 2014 |
Conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic: Macroeconomic Implications and Obstacles to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals |
This report draws upon a large amount of data on Millennium Development Goal indicators released by the Syrian Government and UN agencies. |
20 May 2015 |
Social Development Bulletin, Impact of the Financial Crisis on International Migration in the Arab Region, Sixth Issue |
This bulletin reviews the impact of the global financial crisis on international migration from and to the Arab region. Starting with an overview of the crisis and the resulting challenges and opportunities for the region, it then reviews lessons learned regarding the impact of wars and previous financial crises on international migration. To this end, the bulletin sets out three cases: the 1973 oil crisis, the 1990-1991 Gulf war and the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. |
8 December 2015 |
Competition and Regulation in the Arab Region, Economic Governance Series 2015 |
This is a yearly report focusing on competition laws, antitrust laws, market regulations, policies and institutions in the Arab world. |