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Arab National Reporting Platforms for the Sustainable Development Goals: Assessment cover Arab National Reporting Platforms for the Sustainable Development Goals: Assessment

E/ESCWA/CL4.SIT/2020/TP.6

SDGs National Reporting Platforms (NRPs) are essential to help member countries to achieve their national development goals and are crucial elements to monitor and report the progress towards...

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Charting the Progress of the Millennium Development Goals in the Arab Region: A Statistical Portrait, 2009

E/ESCWA/SD/2009/Technical Paper.5

This report provides indepth analysis of the gains and setbacks on the path towards achieving the MDGs. The report sets out a comparison of subnational, national, subregional and regional...

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Health and Millennium Development Goals in the ESCWA region

E/ESCWA/SCU/2007/Technical Paper.2

This technical paper on Health and MDGs represents one of the concerted efforts of the Statistics Division at ESCWA to provide evidence-based regional information on its member countries in the...

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ESCWA holds 14th session of its Statistical Committee with wide participation of Arab States’ statistical offices



Beirut, 10 February 2021 (ESCWA)--The COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives and affect various economic and social sectors, placing data and statistics...
ESCWA: 2 Arab countries among world’s top 10 richest and 2 others among the 5 least expensive



Beirut, 10 December 2020--Qatar and the United Arab Emirates ranked second and eighth respectively among the world’s top 10 richest countries, while Egypt and the Sudan ranked...

1st Virtual Workshop on the Use of SDMX for SDG Data Reporting



UNSD and ESCWA organized a joint virtual workshop on the Use of the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) Standard for SDG Data Reporting.
 
The Workshop brought together...

Regional Workshop on the Integration of Big Data and Geospatial Information for the Compilation of SDG Indicators in Arab Countries



Within the framework of the United Nations project for enhancing the capacity of Member States in compiling SDG indicators and to further explore and promote the...

The Arab Region’s response to COVID-19 and the way forward for health and well-being






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POSTPONED: Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2020





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Regional Workshop on Data Disaggregation for SDGs Indicators



This workshop builds on work on data disaggregation being undertaken by the Inter-agency and expert group on SDG indicators which focuses on ensuring the Global Indicator Framework...

Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2019




The Arab Forum for...

E-Handbook on SDG Framework and Metadata





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Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2018



The Arab Forum for Sustainable Development is an annual high-level regional platform, where multiple stakeholders discuss coordination pathways for the...

Arab Forum for Sustainable Development, 2017



The Forum is a high-level meeting intended as a regional platform to discuss cohesive and coordinated implementation and follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for...

Implementation of the SDG Indicator Framework in the ESCWA Region



The overall objective of the workshop is to reflect on the preparation of national indicator frameworks based on national, regional and global priorities, and on the roadmaps for...

Statistical Committee, 12th session



The Statistical Committee was established under ESCWA resolution 179 (XVI), of 2 September 1992, which was adopted by the Economic and Social Council resolution 1993/2 of...

First Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Economic Statistics (TAGES) in the Arab Region



ESCWA convened the first Technical Advisory Group on Economic Statistics (TAGES) for the Arab Region on 9 and 10 November 2016, in Cairo.
 
The meeting was attended by 21 participants...

ESCWA Assistance for the Jordanian National Statistical Strategy



ESCWA, through an advisory mission, is taking part this week in reviewing the National Statistical Strategy of Jordan, in response to a request by the Department of Statistics (DOS) and in...

Arab and World Regions Discuss Implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development



On 24 May 2016, ESCWA joined hands with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the League of Arab States (LAS) to organize a meeting on the different regional visions to begin the...

Expert Group Meeting on Data and Indicators to Monitor Progress Towards MDGs in the ESCWA region

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