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WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

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	The Arab Consolidated Report on Progress Achieved in the implementation of the BPFA: Beijing +20 E/ESCWA/ECW/2015/Technical Paper.1 The report reviews progress achieved in the Arab region in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, twenty years after their adoption at the Fourth World Conference... Arabic (742.63 KB) English (742.63 KB)
	Report: Expert Group Meeting to Review A Draft Study on “Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region”, Beirut, 26-27 June 2012 E/ESCWA/ECW/2012/WG.1/2/Report Arabic (199.36 KB) English (199.36 KB)
	Addressing Barriers to Women’s Economic Participation in the ESCWA Region E/ESCWA/ECW/2012/1 Discussions and ongoing debates on Arab women’s rate of economic participation, which is lower than any other region of the world, have emphasized the failure to turn educational gains of the past... Arabic (745.15 KB) English (526.16 KB)
	Integrated Social Policy Report IV: Labour Market Policy in the ESCWA Region E/ESCWA/SDD/2011/3 After decades of market-oriented reforms, the ESCWA region is facing fundamental questions about the parameters of future development. The expectation that top-down economic stabilization,... Arabic (34.07 MB) English (29.13 MB)
	Progress in the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA Region: A Gender Lens E/ESCWA/ECW/2011/1 This report analyses the causes and consequences of the uneven progress made by ESCWA member countries towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by providing a detailed examination... Arabic (1.37 MB) English (460.57 KB)
	Women's Control over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources E/ESCWA/ECW/2009/2/Rev.1 Although female economic activity has steadily increased in the ESCWA region in recent decades, women still face a number of gender-based barriers that prevent them from gaining full control... Arabic (1.86 MB) English (284.6 KB)
	Guidelines on Gender Mainstreaming and Enhancing the Effectiveness of National Machineries for Women. Studies on Arab Women and Development (35) E/ESCWA/ECW/2007/4 This study is part of the efforts of the ESCWA Centre for Women to improve the performance of national committees on women and the relevant Arab ministries in mainstreaming gender into Government... Arabic (1.1 MB) English (1.1 MB)
	ESCWA, the Supreme Council for Women and the Royal University for Women in Bahrain establish a Women’s Research Centre The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the Supreme Council for Women (SCW) and the Royal University for Women (RUW) in the Kingdom of Bahrain agreed today to establish the...