Brief No.1: Women’s economic participation in the Arab region: recent accomplishments and remaining barriers
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Policy briefs | E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2024/Policy brief.4 | October 2024
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- 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
- Trade & regional connectivity
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 14: Life Below Water
- Goal 15: Life On Land
- Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Initiatives
- Sustainable urban development
- Development challenges
- Governance and institution building
- Promoting social justice
- Arab Forum for Sustainable Development
- Arab information society
- Addressing multidimensional poverty
- Reforming social protection systems
- Trade & industry statistics
- Women, peace and security
- Gender Justice and the Law
- International migration
- RICCAR
- Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal Data
- Financial & macroeconomic statistics for National accounts
- Promoting renewable energy investments
- Public finance and inclusive fiscal policy
- Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities
- Women’s economic empowerment
- Preventing Violence Against Women and Girls
- Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies
- Water Resources Management Tools
- Advancing water and food security
- Climate Resilience through Regional Cooperation
- Population & Housing Censuses
- Social Expenditure Monitor for Arab States
- Partnerships for Agenda 2030
- Promoting food and water security
- Reducing inequalities
- Support to the Palestinian people
- Transport and trade connectivity
- Digital Arabic Content
- Enhancing resilience and sustainability of agriculture
- Innovation policies
- Blockchain for international trade
- Economic Statistics and National Accounts
- Older persons
- Technology Centre
- Young people
- Civil registration & vital statistics
- REGEND
- Digital Development
- Enhancing integrated national development planning
- Advancing environment & energy statistics
- Gender statistics
- Transport statistics
- Arab Digital Inclusion Platform
- Arab Financing for Development Gateway
- Debt Optimization to Enhance Fiscal Space
- Integrated national financing frameworks
- Water & energy nexus
- Arab Financing for Development Scorecard
- COVID-19 Stimulus Tracker
- ENACT project
- Up-scaling energy efficiency in residential & services sectors
- Arab Open and Innovative Government
- Supporting Least Developed Countries
- Arab Internet Governance Forum
- Government electronic & mobile services
- Including persons with disabilities in the labour market
- Monitoring money-metric poverty
- National Agenda for the Future of Syria Programme
- Arab exports
- Artificial intelligence & big data
- Cyber Legislation
- Green Technologies for Enhancing Rural Livelihoods
- Improving competition and protecting consumers
- Libya Socioeconomic Dialogue
- Road safety in the Arab region
- Statistics Governance
- Artificial Intelligence Budgeting
- Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
- Job creation
- Strengthening transboundary risk mitigation
- Illicit Financial Flows
- Improved Water Security in Arab States
- Improving transport & logistics
- Climate/SDGs Debt Swap
- Disability Statistics
- Voluntary reporting on the 2030 Agenda
- Life Cycle
- Taxation and domestic public resource mobilization
- The ESCWA Stories
- Arab Initiative for Mobilizing Climate Finance for Water
- AWARENET
- Forced displacement
- Geographic Information System for transport networks and facilities in the Arab region
- Islamic finance
- Yemen Vision for Recovery and Development
- Arab-European Research Network on Disability
- Purchasing Power Parities
- Water Action Decade
- (-) Women’s rights and gender mainstreaming
Clusters
Keywords
- ARAB COUNTRIES
- GENDER EQUALITY
- GENDER MAINSTREAMING
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- WOMEN'S RIGHTS
- WOMEN
- GIRLS
- GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
- EMPOWERMENT
- EQUALITY
- GOVERNMENT POLICY
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- TECHNICAL COOPERATION
- WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
- WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- GENDER
- GENDER DISCRIMINATION
- LABOUR MARKET
- PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT
- WOMEN'S STATUS
- COVID-19
- ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
- EMPLOYMENT
- JORDAN
- PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
- SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- DISCRIMINATION
- EARLY MARRIAGE
- ECONOMIC ASPECTS
- EGYPT
- LEBANON
- MOROCCO
- POVERTY
- SOCIAL CONDITIONS
- SOCIAL POLICY
- TUNISIA
- UNEMPLOYMENT
- WOMEN WORKERS
- YEMEN
- ARMED CONFLICTS
- CAPACITY BUILDING
- CASE STUDIES
- ECONOMIC CRISIS
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- EDUCATION
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
- EQUITY
- HOUSEHOLDS
- IRAQ
- JUSTICE
- LAWS AND REGULATIONS
- PALESTINE
- POLITICAL ASPECTS
- REFUGEES
- STATE OF PALESTINE
- STATISTICAL DATA
- WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
- YOUTH
- AGEING PERSONS
- ALGERIA
- COSTS
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT
- DESERTIFICATION
- DEVELOPMENT PLANNING
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- ECONOMIC GROWTH
- EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS
- EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- FEMINISM
- FERTILITY RATE
- FINANCIAL CRISIS
- FOOD SECURITY
- GOVERNANCE
- HEALTH SERVICES
- HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
- HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
- HUNGER
- INCOME DISTRIBUTION
- INSTITUTION BUILDING
- KUWAIT
- LABOUR
- LAND RIGHTS
- LEGAL ASPECTS
- MAURITANIA
- MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
- MIDDLE EAST
- MILITARY OCCUPATION
- MUSLIM WOMEN
- NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
- PALESTINIANS
- PEACE
- POPULATION
- PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION
- PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
- PUBLIC POLICY
- QATAR
- QUALITY OF LIFE
- RESEARCH
- RIGHT TO EDUCATION
- SANITATION SERVICES
- SAUDI ARABIA
- SOCIAL ASPECTS
- SOCIAL JUSTICE
- Social protection
- SOCIAL SECURITY
- SOCIAL SERVICES
- SUDAN
- SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
- TERRITORIES OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL
- UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
- VIOLENCE
- WOMEN REFUGEES
- WORKFORCE
- ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM
- AIDS
- ASYLUM SEEKERS
- BAHRAIN
- BAHRAINIS
- BASIC SERVICES
- BLOCKADE
- BUDGET
- CHILDBIRTH
- CHILD CARE
- CHILD MORTALITY
- CHILDREN
- CITIES
- CIVILIAN PERSONS
- CLIMATE
- CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION
- CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
- COASTAL AREAS
- COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- COMOROS
- CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS
- CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE
- COUNTRY PROGRAMMES
- CULTURAL ASPECTS
- CULTURAL PARTICIPATION
- DATA ANALYSIS
- DECENTRALIZATION IN GOVERNMENT
- DECENT WORK
- DECISION-MAKING
- DECLARATIONS
- DEVELOPMENT
- DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
- DEVELOPMENT PLANS
- DEVELOPMENT POLICY
- DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
- DOMESTIC WORKERS
- DROUGHT CONTROL
- ECONOMIC GEOLOGY
- ECONOMIC POLICY
- ECONOMIC SECURITY
- EDUCATIONAL POLICY
- EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
- EMPLOYMENT CREATION
- EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
- EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY
- ENERGY POLICY
- ENERGY SERVICES
- ENVIRONMENT
- EQUAL PAY
- EXERCISE
- FAMILY
- FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS
- FINANCIAL POLICY
- FINANCIAL RESOURCES
- FINANCING
- FISHING
- FLEXIBLE HOURS OF WORK
- FOREIGN TRADE
- FORESTS
- GREEN ECONOMY
- GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
- GUIDELINES
- GULF STATES
- HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
- HEALTH POLICY
- HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES
- HOUSING NEEDS
- HUMAN RESOURCES
- HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY
- HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
- INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
- INDUSTRIALIZATION
- INFANT MORTALITY
- INNOVATIONS
- INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS
- INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
- ISLAMIC LAW
- LABOUR ADMINISTRATION
- LABOUR LAW
- LABOUR STATISTICS
- LAND-BASED RESOURCES
- LAND DEGRADATION
- LANGUAGES
- LAW
- LEADERSHIP
- LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
- LEGAL SERVICES
- LIBYA
- LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- MANPOWER
- MANUALS
- MARINE POLLUTION
- MARINE RESOURCES CONSERVATION
- MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
- MEDICAL ASPECTS
- MICROCREDIT
- MIGRATION POLICY
- MONEY SUPPLY
- NUTRITION POLICY
- OPEN SPACES
- PARKS
- PARTNERSHIP
- PEACEBUILDING
- PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
- POLITICAL CONDITIONS
- POLITICAL LEADERS
- POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
- POPULATION COMPOSITION
- POPULATION GROWTH
- POPULATION TRENDS
- POVERTY MITIGATION
- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
- PUBLIC INFORMATION
- PUBLIC SERVICES
- QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
- QUANTITATIVE CRITERIA
- QUESTIONNAIRES
- REFORMATORIES
- REGIONAL COOPERATION
- REGIONAL PLANS
- RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
- REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
- RIGHT TO HEALTH
- RISK
- RULES AND REGULATIONS
- SAFETY REGULATIONS
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- SCIENTISTS
- SEX DIFFERENTIALS
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- SOCIAL INTEGRATION
- SOCIAL SAFETY NETS
- SOCIAL SURVEYS
- SOCIAL WORK
- SOLIDARITY
- SOMALIA
- STANDARD OF LIVING
- SURVEYS
- SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
- SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
- TAXATION
- TERMS OF REFERENCE
- TRADE AGREEMENTS
- TRADE POLICY
- UNPAID WORK
- URBAN AREAS
- URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- WAGE POLICY
- WAR
- WAR VICTIMS
- WATER
- WATER MANAGEMENT
- WATER POLICY
- WATER RESOURCES
- WEALTH
- WOMEN'S EDUCATION
- WOMEN'S HEALTH
- WOMEN IN ARMED CONFLICTS
- WOMEN IN POLITICS
- WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES
- WORK PROGRAMME
- YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
- YOUTH POLICY
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