The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum will provide a platform for youth to engage in a dialogue with Member States and to discuss the policy frameworks and promote innovative, institutionalised approaches and initiatives for advancing the youth development agenda at national, regional and global levels with a view to promoting solutions to the global challenge of strengthening resilience and sustainable development.

This workshop is for people from all sectors who want to make a difference in expanding economic opportunities across the region, dedicating time to develop solutions that will build business opportunities, expand livelihoods programming, start new businesses, attract investment, or otherwise create jobs.

UNDP Arab States launched the Youth Leadership Programme ﴾YLP﴿ in 2015, it has first started with YLP1 (2015) and then YLP2 (2016) and now UNDP Arab States is launching YLP 3 to support young men and women from across the region in exploring innovative approaches to addressing sustainable development challenges, with a specific focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Shughel Shabab is an advocacy campaign working to build space for young peacebuilders in the Middle East and North Africa. It will provide a platform to give young peacebuilders a voice, and to promote more inclusive policies and peace processes that make room for young peacebuilders in the region.

Visualize 2030 will bring together the top 30 participants (individuals and teams) to participate in a data dive adventure in order to collectively think and engage with one another to unleash the power of data: create and produce visual content such as infographics, illustrations, and videos using the ADP Database and other sources.

The Social Good Summit (SGS) is a two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world. Held annually during United Nations General Week, SGS unites a dynamic community of global leaders and grassroots activists to discuss solutions for the greatest challenges of our time. During SGS, global citizens around the world unite to unlock the potential of technology to make the world a better place. This initiative is annually localized in various UNDP Country Offices worldwide.

The Forum was co-hosted by the Misk Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) is in the process of formulation its next Regional Programme (2018-2021), in line with the development of the new UNDP Strategic Plan and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

As the crisis in Syria enters into its seventh year, the situation remains extremely grave: the armed conflict continues, millions are in urgent need of humanitarian aid and protection, displaced or in refuge in neighbouring countries. Conditions for many inside and outside the country are difficult or deteriorating, although commendable efforts have been made by host governments, which led to tangible results.

As the Syrian crisis enters its seventh year, Jobs Makes the Dierence makes it clear that expanding access to economic opportunities for those aected by the crisis must be a priority. However, it is equally clear that the current response, despite recent successes, is unlikely to be sufficient.

European Commission, the EastWest institute and UNDP will launch the Arab Human Development Report 2016 (AHDR): Youth and the Prospects of Human Development in a Changing Reality, on Thursday, April 6th, 2017 in Brussels.

The Syrian crisis has displaced nearly five million Syrian refugees into Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, and there are an estimated 6.1 million additional internally displaced people within Syria.

The Ministry of Youth in Kuwait in partnership with UNDP Kuwait and UNDP RBAS will convene the regional workshop on “Youth Action for the 2030 Agenda” in the Arab region from 27th of November till 1st of December 2016. The regional workshop will be convened in partnership with UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States and the Office of the Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth

Following both the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security held in Amman in 2015 and the newly passed UN Security Council Resolution (SCR 2250), UNDP and UNESCO are co-leading, on behalf of the Regional United Nations Development Group-Interagency Technical Task Team on Young People (R-UNIATTTYP), in partnership with the Peacebuilding Support Office (UNPSO) and UNFPA, a regional Consultation and High-Level Dialogue on “Youth, Peace & Security in the Arab States Region” in Amman, Jordan from 4 to 6 December 2016.

On 29 November 2016, UNDP will launch the latest edition of its Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) series. AHDR 2016 examines challenges and opportunities facing youth in the Arab region, especially since 2011, and seeks to provide an overview on youth in the region, stimulate debate on youth and development, and engage youth with key stakeholders in a dialogue on issues of priority to them.

The Marrakech Climate Change Conference convenes from 7-18 November 2016, in Marrakech, Morocco. At this session the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 12th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12), and the 1st Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1) is taking place.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)- Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) in partnership with King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) are convening a two-day open dialogue with religious leaders (and scholars), thinkers and community mediators to discuss rising intolerance and violent extremism inthe Arab region.

The Governments of Canada, Finland and UNDP will co-host a “Resilience Building Week – a Bridge from Concepts to Evidence,” in Amman, Jordan from the 25th to the 27th of October 2016. This event will consist of several high visibility sessions that bring together top experts, leaders, practitioners and friends of resilience from a wide range of national and international partners.

The Summit is an annual event that takes place as world leaders come together at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss global issues and ways in which to tackle them.

The regional forum on the role of assemblies in fostering social cohesion and peaceful political transformations in Arab States will explore these questions, focusing on the crucial roles that constitution-making bodies and parliaments need to play in reconfiguring the relationship between citizens and the State.

The summit brings together governments, humanitarian organizations, people affected by humanitarian crises, and new partners to propose solutions to our most pressing challenges and set an agenda to keep humanitarian action fit for the future.

Launch of the Arab Development Portal (ADP) - a one-stop-shop, bilingual (Arabic and English) online knowledge platform providing credible and timely data and information on development in the Arab region employing a unique and dynamic database and a rich depository of resources, currently covering eleven key development topics across all Arab countries. ADP is a joint initiative between UNDP, the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will bring together key humanitarian and development stakeholders, including UN agencies; international financial institutions; donors; and representatives of international and national non-governmental organizations, and the private sector alongside senior representatives of Governments in the immediate sub-region affected by the Syria crisis, to collectively consider a new vision of the response to the protracted crisis, now well into its fifth year

The Arab Women Organization in partnership with UNDP Regional Bureau of Arab States, UN Women, and league of Arab States are convening a high level conference on the implementation of the post 2015 SDGs with respect to the important issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment.

UNDP Regional Hub of in Amman in partnership with "MBC" Al Amal will organize "Regional Youth Leadership" programme in Amman, Jordan from 8 October 2015 till 15 October 2015.

The Social Good Summit is a two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world. Held during UN Week from September 27-28, the Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders and grassroots activists to discuss solutions for the greatest challenges of our time

The aim of this post-launch in Oxford is the linkage between education and employment and the ways in which this linkage works to create opportunities for youth.

The 6th edition of the AHDR will be launched on May 25th, 2015. The report covers a broad spectrum of development issues related to youth in the region. This is the first AHDR to be launched since the Arab Spring, where youth played a central role in becoming leaders and taking command of the future they yearned for. The AHDR 2015 highlights several thematic areas in depth, including, but not limited to: civic participation, education and transition to labor markets, young women inclusion and empowerment, and most important, the road ahead.

The political representation of women in elected bodies in the MENA and Africa region has made significant progress over the last twenty years.

On 31 March 2015, Kuwait will host the Third International Pledging Conference for Syria (Kuwait III). It is the UN’s largest ever single appeal to address the Syrian crisis.

As Syria’s war heads towards a fifth year , the United Nations and their partners today launched a major new humanitarian and development appeal, requiring over $8.4 billion in funds to help nearly 18 million people in Syria and across the region in 2015.

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and under the guidance of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF), the first Knowledge Conference will be held from December 7 to 9 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Dubai.

UNV is organizing the first Regional Youth Volunteering Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco, in April 2014. The Forum will bring together the three key youth volunteering stakeholders, youth, governments and CSOs, to facilitate dialogues, the exchange of knowledge and sharing of best practices to gain a better understanding of the role of youth volunteerism in socio-economic development and participatory governance.

The newly approved UNDP Youth Strategy will be launched in Tunis, Tunisia followed by a knowledge sharing and prospective forum on civic engagement and participation in political processes and public institutions, convened by the UNDP Bureau for Development Policy. Building on the momentum from days one and two, the UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States aims to chart regional priorities and solidify a vision for work on youth in the region on day three.

Three years into the Syria conflict, neighbouring countries continue to provide assistance to millions of Syrian refugees. Yet the strain on national budgets and community resources is pushing more host country citizens into poverty and straining social services, infrastructure and national treasuries. Thus neighbouring governments are preparing national development response plans, which address continuing refugee needs, but also seek to ensure the well-being of their own citizens. These plans, closely coordinated with humanitarian assistance plans, anticipate a multi-faceted response to assure immediate relief, strengthen individual and community resilience and rebuild essential development infrastructure.

In order to succeed in building a clear, coherent and inspiring post-2015 development agenda across the Arab region, the Regional United Nations Development Group (UNDG) is organizing a forum on addressing the Development Agenda in Arab Countries. High-Level Panel Member for Post – 2015 in the Arab region Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan is expected to participate.

On the 7th and 8th of April, the international community will meet in Doha to endorse the Strategy for Recovery, Reconstruction and Development in Darfur (DDS) developed through a comprehensive consultation process in partnership with the Government of Sudan, the Darfur Regional Authority, UN agencies, International Financial Institutions and Civil Society. The conference has 3 objectives: (a) to endorse the strategy, (b) to agree on the coordination and funding mechanism, and (c) to confirm financial commitments of the international community for the implementation of the strategy.

International Women’s Day 2012 focuses on the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.

The 1st Arab Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) will bring together the key actors in DRR from the 22 Arab countries. It will provide a forum for Arab politicians, policy makers, planners, academia and development experts to discuss issues and challenges facing the region with regard to disaster risk reduction.

The purpose of Regional Advocacy Workshop is to mobilize support from municipal governments and UNDP country offices to design and implement interventions for urban risk reduction in high risk Arab cities. The workshop participants will include mayors/senior municipal officials and UNDP staff from target countries.

The Regional Consultation will take stock of the steps taken by the participating countries of the region in the area of transitional justice. It will create an open forum for the different actors across the MENA region to share experiences and practices on transitional justice initiatives, and identify challenges and needs. It will also look at the way forward, and discuss possible cooperation with national, regional and international stakeholders.

One of UNDP’s comparative advantages is in facilitating knowledge sharing and this conference will contribute to the sharing of experiences regionally but also provide a forum for learning from global experiences and good practices of negotiating women’s rights in political transitions.

The “Governance Week” will take stock of the progress made towards democratic transitions from the perspective of social accountability, focusing on the process of re-negotiating the social contract between the citizens and State in the Arab Region.

In the last decade, almost one million people have been killed by disasters and more than one trillion dollars have been lost. Yet only 1% of international aid is spent to minimise the impact of these disasters.

Extreme poverty destroys the lives and spirit of people; it kills more children, young persons, and adults than any war. Every day, people living in extreme poverty are challenged and threatened by lack of food, shelter and access to essential services.

Thousands of innovative technologists, influential minds and passionate activists will debate solutions to global challenges at the Social Good Summit — an in-person and online gathering to discuss the power of digital media and technology to change our world.

The subject of this year's theme -- democracy education -- is essential for the long-term success of democracy. It is only with educated citizens that a sustainable culture of democracy can emerge.

The United Nations second conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons will be held from 27 August to 7 September 2012 in New York.

The 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or “Rio+20” is a forum on how to make sustainable development a reality for seven billion people today, and to define the future we want for nine billion by 2050.

“United Nations mine action programmes make an invaluable contribution to post-conflict recovery, humanitarian relief efforts, peace operations and development initiatives.

International Women’s Day 2012 focuses on the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges.