UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

ESCWA assists LDCs in the Arab region, with a focus on institutional development. It is mandated by its membership to support development efforts in LDCs through defining and meeting institutional needs in order to achieve Global Goals (see resolution 292 (XXVI) of 19 May 2020). 

Here are examples of ESCWA's support to individual LDCs:

National institutional development interventions:

• Capacity-building for rural women in Mauritania 
• Evaluating multidimensional vulnerability to enhance social protection programmes in Somalia 
• Integrating social justice and peacebuilding into legislation in Somalia 
• MPI to inform poverty reduction policies in Djibouti 
• Developing debt optimization strategies in Mauritania 
• Optimizing poverty reduction pathways in Mauritania 
• Validating the National Migration Strategy in Somalia 
• National Strategy for Ageing and the Older Persons’ Act in Somalia 

Knowledge products:

• Elevating the talent pool in Somalia: A labour market analysis
• National strategy for ageing in Somalia - June 2024 
• National strategy for migration in Somalia - May 2024 
• Country risk analysis: Yemen 
• Development challenges in Yemen 
• National report on the compatibility of wage policy with the principles of social justice in Yemen 
• Guidance note on optimizing policies and investments for poverty reduction in Mauritania 
• Social protection landscape and perspectives Comprehensive national review of the system and reforms of Mauritania: Edition 1
•  Assessment of GIS for the population and housing census and agricultural census in the Sudan 

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