Education

Everyone possesses the innate ability to contribute to the betterment of society. Education is the vehicle through which each individual can identify and hone those abilities and live a purposeful fruitful life that contributes to their own and their community’s wellbeing and prosperity. Not everyone however has access to education. This not only limits their opportunities but the collective growth of society at large.

In the 30 years since girls’ education was first raised as an international policy priority, tremendous progress has been made in getting girls into school. UNESCO (2020) reports that since 1995, an additional 180 million girls have been enrolled in school. Yet hundreds of millions remain out of school – and of theContinue Reading

The 2022 edition of the Annual Digest of Social Protection Reforms in the Arab Region represents a novel effort undertaken by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia to monitor, record and summarize theongoing social protection reforms in the region. It aims to benefit a wide rangeContinue Reading

Iraq is in the early stage of an “demographic window of opportunity”, with a young population and a growing labour force. However, the young generation entering the labour market in Iraq is facing an education gap, compared with peers in countries at the same income level. The paper draws on international practices fromContinue Reading