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Information material | E/ESCWA/CL6.GCP/2025/TP.3 | April 2025
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Focus areas
- 2030 Agenda
- Climate change
- Debt and fiscal policy
- Financing for development
- Gender equality
- Governance & enabling environment
- Inclusive development
- Future of employment
- Macroeconomics
- Natural resource sustainability
- Population dynamics & migration
- Resilient development & conflict prevention
- Statistics
- Technology & innovation
SDGs
- Agenda 2030
- Goal 1: No Poverty
- Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
- Goal 4: Quality Education
- Goal 5: Gender Equality
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
- Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Initiatives
- Sustainable urban development
- Development challenges
- Women’s rights and gender mainstreaming
- Promoting social justice
- Arab Forum for Sustainable Development
- Addressing multidimensional poverty
- Arab information society
- Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities
- Reducing inequalities
- Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal Data
- International migration
- Gender Justice and the Law
- Reforming social protection systems
- Trade & industry statistics
- RICCAR
- Women, peace and security
- Women’s economic empowerment
- Climate Resilience through Regional Cooperation
- Public finance and inclusive fiscal policy
- Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies
- Financial & macroeconomic statistics for National accounts
- Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls
- Arab Digital Inclusion Platform
- Promoting renewable energy investments
- Digital Development
- Older persons
- Enhancing integrated national development planning
- Social Expenditure Monitor for Arab States
- Advancing water and food security
- Partnerships for Agenda 2030
- Population & Housing Censuses
- Water Resources Management Tools
- Technology Centre
- Support to the Palestinian people
- Transport and trade connectivity
- Young people
- Arab Financing for Development Gateway
- Digital Arabic Content
- Enhancing resilience and sustainability of agriculture
- Job creation
- Promoting food and water security
- Blockchain for international trade
- Civil registration & vital statistics
- Gender statistics
- Including persons with disabilities in the labour market
- Innovation policies
- Economic Statistics and National Accounts
- ENACT project
- REGEND
- Arab Financing for Development Scorecard
- Monitoring money-metric poverty
- COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker
- Supporting Least Developed Countries
- Transport statistics
- Advancing environment & energy statistics
- Debt Optimization to Enhance Fiscal Space
- Integrated national financing frameworks
- Strengthening transboundary risk mitigation
- Arab Internet Governance Forum
- Life Cycle
- National Agenda for the Future of Syria Programme
- Statistics Governance
- Arab Open and Innovative Government
- Enhancing competition and consumer protection laws and policies
- Water & energy nexus
- Arab-European Research Network on Disability
- Government electronic & mobile services
- Up-scaling energy efficiency in residential & services sectors
- Improved Water Security in Arab States
- Arab exports
- Arab Initiative for Mobilizing Climate Finance for Water
- Artificial intelligence & big data
- Artificial Intelligence-Powered Budgeting
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
- Cyber Legislation
- Green Technologies for Enhancing Rural Livelihoods
- Libya Socioeconomic Dialogue
- Road safety in the Arab region
- Voluntary reporting on the 2030 Agenda
- Water Action Decade
- Disability Statistics
- Illicit Financial Flows
- AWARENET
- Climate/SDGs Debt Swap
- Improving transport & logistics
- Taxation and domestic public resource mobilization
- Arab Dialogue on Internet Governance
- SDG Stories
- Purchasing Power Parities
- Yemen Vision for Recovery and Development
- Forced displacement
- Geographic Information System for transport networks and facilities in the Arab region
- Islamic finance
- Using index simulators
- Resilient water solutions against climate change in Jordan and Lebanon
- (-) Governance and institution building
Clusters
Keywords
- GOVERNANCE
- ARAB COUNTRIES
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- CONFLICT
- INSTITUTION BUILDING
- ARMED CONFLICTS
- PEACEBUILDING
- HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- POLITICAL CONDITIONS
- TECHNICAL COOPERATION
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- LEBANON
- TRAINING PROGRAMMES
- DEVELOPMENT
- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
- COVID-19
- EDUCATION
- EMPLOYMENT
- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- RECOVERY
- DISPLACED PERSONS
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION
- REFUGEES
- SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- CAPACITY BUILDING
- PEACE
- POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION
- POVERTY
- PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
- BAHRAIN
- CASE STUDIES
- DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNMENT
- DJIBOUTI
- E-GOVERNMENT
- ECONOMIC ASPECTS
- ECONOMIC GROWTH
- EGYPT
- IRAQ
- JORDAN
- LABOUR MARKET
- LIBYA
- OMAN
- POLICY MAKING
- RESILIENCE
- RISK ASSESSMENT
- STATE OF PALESTINE
- TUNISIA
- UNEMPLOYMENT
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- URBAN ECONOMICS
- ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
- ALGERIA
- BUSINESS
- DIRECTORIES
- ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
- FOOD SECURITY
- GOVERNMENT POLICY
- GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
- HEALTH SERVICES
- HUMAN RESOURCES
- KUWAIT
- MAURITANIA
- MOROCCO
- PUBLIC SECTOR
- SAUDI ARABIA
- SOCIAL ASPECTS
- SOCIAL CONDITIONS
- SOMALIA
- STATISTICAL DATA
- SUDAN
- URBAN AREAS
- VIOLENCE
- YEMEN
- YOUTH
- CITIES
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- CORRUPTION
- DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
- DEVELOPMENT POLICY
- DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
- ECONOMIC CRISIS
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- EQUALITY
- FINANCIAL ASPECTS
- FINANCIAL POLICY
- GENDER EQUALITY
- HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- HUMAN SECURITY
- IMPORTS
- INFORMAL SECTOR
- MEASUREMENT
- MIGRATION POLICY
- PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
- POLITICAL CORRUPTION
- POPULAR PARTICIPATION
- POPULATION DYNAMICS
- PROGRAMMES OF ACTION
- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- QATAR
- REGIONAL COOPERATION
- REMITTANCES
- RISK
- SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
- SOCIAL MEDIA
- SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS
- ADMINISTRATION
- CAREGIVERS
- CIVIL WAR
- COMOROS
- CONFERENCES
- CYBER SECURITY
- DECENTRALIZATION IN MANAGEMENT
- DEMOGRAPHIC STATISTICS
- DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
- DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
- DOMESTIC WORKERS
- ECONOMIC COOPERATION
- ECONOMIC RECESSION
- ECONOMIC STATISTICS
- ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION
- EDUCATIONAL POLICY
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- EXPORTS
- FACTOR ANALYSIS
- FORCED MIGRATION
- FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
- FOREIGN TRADE
- GUIDELINES
- HEALTH
- HOUSEHOLDS
- INDEXES
- INFLATION
- INNOVATIONS
- INTERNAL MIGRATION
- ISRAEL
- KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY
- LABOUR LAW
- LABOUR SUPPLY
- LAW REFORM
- LAWS AND REGULATIONS
- LIFE EXPECTANCY
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- MACROECONOMICS
- MANUALS
- MIGRANT WORKERS
- MIGRATION STATISTICS
- MILITARY OCCUPATION
- MINORITIES
- NATURAL RESOURCES
- NEIGHBOURING STATES
- NEW TECHNOLOGIES
- PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
- POLITICAL ASPECTS
- POVERTY MITIGATION
- PRIVATE SECTOR
- PROGRAMME PLANNING
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
- RADICALISM
- RESOURCES ALLOCATION
- SANCTIONS
- SANITARY FACILITIES
- SECURITY MANAGEMENT
- SOCIAL JUSTICE
- TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
- WAR CRIMES
- WAR VICTIMS
- WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
- WOMEN
- WOMEN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
- ACCESS TO INFORMATION
- ACCOUNTABILITY
- ACTIVITIES
- ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS
- ADULT EDUCATION
- AERIAL BOMBINGS
- AGEING PERSONS
- AGRICULTURE
- ANTITRUST LAW
- APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIALS
- BANKING
- BANKRUPTCY
- BASIC SERVICES
- BIG DATA
- BRIBERY
- BUDGETING
- CARE ECONOMY
- CARE OF AGEING PERSONS
- CARTELS
- CEASEFIRES
- CHILDREN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
- CIVIL SERVICE
- CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
- COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
- COMPETITION LAW
- COMPETITION POLICY
- CONSTITUTIONS
- CONSUMER PROTECTION
- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- CORPORATE PLANNING
- CORPORATION LAW
- CURRENCY
- DAMAGES
- DEBT
- DECENT WORK
- DECISION-MAKING
- DEMOCRATIZATION
- DEVELOPING AREAS
- DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
- DEVELOPMENT FINANCE
- DISASTER LOSS
- DISCRIMINATION
- DISTRIBUTION
- ECONOMIC GAP
- ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
- ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION
- ECONOMIC PLANNING
- ECONOMIC POLICY
- ELECTRIC POWER
- ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
- EMIGRATION
- EMIGRATION LAW
- EMPLOYMENT POLICY
- EMPOWERMENT
- ENERGY POLICY
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- ENVIRONMENT
- ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
- ETHNIC CONFLICT
- FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES
- FINANCE
- FINANCIAL RESOURCES
- FINANCING
- FISCAL POLICY
- FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
- FREEDOM
- FUNDS
- GENDER
- GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
- GLOBALIZATION
- GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
- GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
- GOVERNMENT PURCHASING
- GROUP CONFLICT PREVENTION
- HEALTH CENTRES
- HEALTH CONDITIONS
- HEALTH PERSONNEL
- IMMIGRANTS
- IMMIGRATION LAW
- INCENTIVES
- INCOME
- INCOME POLICY
- INFANT MORTALITY
- INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- INSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY
- INTERCOMMUNAL NEGOTIATIONS
- JOB CLASSIFICATION
- JOB DESCRIPTION
- JOB VACANCIES
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- LABOUR POLICY
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- LIQUIDITY
- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
- MEDICAL ASPECTS
- MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
- MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
- MIGRANTS
- MIGRATION
- MILITARY EXPENDITURES
- NATIONAL INCOME
- NATIONALITY
- NATURAL DISASTERS
- NATURAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
- OCCUPATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- OLD AGE BENEFITS
- OPEN GOVERNMENT
- OPEN SYSTEMS
- ORGANIZED CRIME
- PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
- PHYSICAL PLANNING
- PLURALISM
- POLITICAL LEADERS
- POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
- POPULATION
- POPULATION TRENDS
- PRIMARY HEALTH CARE
- PRODUCTIVE AGEING
- PROJECT EVALUATION
- PROJECT MONITORING
- PUBLIC DEBT
- PUBLIC FINANCE
- PUBLIC GOODS
- PUBLIC SERVICES
- QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA
- RECONSTRUCTION
- REGIONAL COMMISSIONS
- REHABILITATION
- REINTEGRATION
- RELIGIOUS GROUPS
- RESEARCH
- RESOURCES MOBILIZATION
- RESTRICTIVE BUSINESS PRACTICES
- RETIREMENT
- RETURN MIGRATION
- RISK MANAGEMENT
- SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
- SOCIAL CONFLICT
- SOCIAL GROUPS
- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- Social protection
- SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
- SOCIAL VALUES
- SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
- STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT
- STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY
- STOCKHOLDERS
- SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
- SYRIANS
- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS
- TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL
- TOP STATE OFFICIALS
- TOURISM
- TRADE AGREEMENTS
- TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
- VIOLENT DEATHS
- VIRUSES
- WAR
- WAR ON GAZA
- WAR PREVENTION
- WASTE TREATMENT
- WATER MANAGEMENT
- WATER POLICY
- WEALTH
- WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- WOMEN'S STATUS
- WORKERS' RIGHTS
- YEMEN SITUATION
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The Arab Governance Report V: People-centred Governance for Post-conflict Recovery: Policy brief
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Guide for the development and adoption of national policies to achieve the principles of gender equality ESCWA 2024
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Action Plan for the National Strategy for Older Persons in Lebanon 2020–2030
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Syria at the crossroads: Towards a stabilized transition
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Modernizing public administrations for the SDGs in the Arab region
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Restoring care, rebuilding communities: path to recovery for Lebanon
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National Strategy for Social Justice in Libya 2025–2027
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National strategy for migration in Somalia - May 2024
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Proposed job competency framework implementation guide for senior public servants: State of Palestine
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The multidimensional impact of Israeli attacks on Lebanon
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