Social Development
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Community Development Approach as a Tool for Formulating Social Policy at the Local level E/ESCWA/SDD/2006/Technical Paper.3 This paper seeks to emphasize that community development is a participatory process whereby consensus-building, open dialogue and the promotion of an active civil society are all key ingredients... |
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Regional Review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in the Arab Region: Multi-stakeholder Consultation IOM, ESCWA, and the League of Arab States, in collaboration with the members of the Regional United Nations Network on Migration in the Arab Region, and... |
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Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region The Expert Group Meeting on the Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy in the ESCWA Region (Beirut, 1-2 December 2009) was organized by the Economic and... |
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The Use of Urban Observatories as a Tool for Localizing Urban and Social Policy E/ESCWA/SDD/2009/WG.3/WP.1
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The Arab Region’s response to COVID-19 and the way forward for health and well-being  |
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ESCWA response to the UN Youth Strategy, Social Development Bulletin, Vol 7, No. 2 E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/TP.2 Young people under 30 represent 60% of the total population of the Arab region today. The number of youth aged 15 to 24 is expected to increase from 71 million in 2015 to 92 million in 2030. This... |
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High-level Meeting to Support Persons with Disabilities during COVID-19 in the Arab Region
COVID-19 has caused new global changes affecting people’s lives everywhere. These effects are especially felt by persons with disabilities as one of... |
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High Level Meeting to Present the Gap Assessment Tool for Mainstreaming Social Justice in Public Policies ESCWA organized a virtual High-Level Meeting on 22 December 2020 to launch and present a newly developed tool that aims at assessing the extent to which social... |
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Second Regional Review Meeting of The Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) Towards the second review and appraisal exercise of MIPAA, and in line with resolution 2010/14 of the Economic and Social Council, ESCWA, in its work programme for 2011, has developed... |
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Expert Group Meeting on the Positions of ESCWA Member Countries towards the Development of a National Policy for Youth . |
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Expert Group Meeting on the Role of ICT in Socio-Economic Development In an increasingly connected world, ICTs are playing a major role in enabling change. Globalization has altered the landscape... |
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Peer Review Meeting Social Policy Report No. 2 : Proposed outline Integrated Social Policies Project The Economic and Social Commission of Western Asia (ESCWA) is preparing Social Policy Report No. 2 entitled “Operationalizing Social Policy in the ESCWA Region”, part of the second phase of... |
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ESCWA Opens Ministerial Segment of 29th Session ESCWA 29th Session opened this afternoon at the ministerial level, in Doha, Qatar, with speeches highlighting the need to work for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development... |
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Launch of the Project on the “Inter-Regional Cooperation on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda” in Amman, Jordan
The implementation of the New Urban Agenda (NUA) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires a concerted effort to rethink urban development and... |
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Launch of the 2nd Social Development Report: ‘Inequality, autonomy and change in the Arab region’ Launch of the 2nd Social Development Report ‘Inequality, autonomy and change in the Arab region’ ... |
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Arab Region Launch of the Global Campaign for the Good Treatment of Girls, Boys, and Adolescents with Disabilities
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Social Protection Reform in Arab Countries E/ESCWA/SDD/2019/1 Social protection systems, their design and their extent, are shaping social cohesion, social justice, the structure of the labour market, the prevention and alleviation of poverty, as well as... |
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Social Protection Reform in the Arab Region Social protection plays an... |
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Reforming Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A Gateway for Building a Skilled Youth Workforce in the Arab Region E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2020/TP.4 The technical paper scrutinizes high youth unemployment rates prevalent in the Arab region from the perspective of labour supply. More specifically, it examines technical and vocational education... |
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Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in the Labour Market: International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2017 |
Children with disabilities have a... 
