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Arab Human Development Report
This series engages institutions and citizens in the Arab countries in analysis and discussion about the factors which shape the choices and freedoms available to people across the region, so as to foster understanding and consensus around regional and national development priorities. They also identify disadvantaged groups within the region, and suggest policies, strategies and opportunities for their empowerment. The Reports target policy-makers, opinion leaders and civil societies who are engaged in the search for a brighter future across the region.
Arab Human Development Report 2022
Expanding Opportunities for an Inclusive and Resilient Recovery in the Post-COVID Era
The Arab Human Development Report 2022 focuses on post-COVID recovery assessing long standing development challenges across the spheres of governance society and economy—tackling aspects of gender; youth; education and health; multi-dimensional poverty; impacts on economic sectors MSMEs and labour markets; displacement and migration; and nature and climate change challenges—to put the region on a resilient and sustainable human development path. The report also assesses adequacy and efficacy of response policies especially where the pandemic has led to widening inequalities and exacerbated existing challenges in such areas as public service provision including social protection care education healthcare and vaccine rollout. The report provides concrete recommendations on how to guide a resilient sustainable equitable and inclusive recovery. It calls on Arab States to act quickly decisively and at scale to assess evaluate and strengthen capabilities and capacities and build effective and trustworthy institutional structures that can support a new social contract to better help societies cope with future shocks and disasters.
Arab Human Development Report 2016
Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality
This report addresses the development challenges facing young people in the Arab region. The current young generation is the largest this region has had over the past 50 years making up 30% of its population. In light of the youth-led movements during and after the 2011 uprisings the report argues for a renewed policy focus on youth development in the region. It deals with the pillars of human development (income education and health) with the attainment achievement and equitable distribution of education and with the challenges of finding stable and decent jobs. With protracted conflict in several Arab countries young Arabs have become victims or perpetrators of violence challenged by difficulties of mobility and migration. AHDR 2016 aims to engage youth in building a better future.
Arab Human Development Report 2009
Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries
Like the first Arab Human Development Report this fifth volume in the series undertakes a broad diagnostic of the state of development in Arab countries this time through the lens of human security. Adopting a more differentiated approach to the particular contours of sub-regions it shows that the concept of human security offers a relevant framework for refocusing the social contract in the Arab countries on neglected priorities. The Report analyzes interdependent threats and downturns that undermine the safety and development prospects of individuals and states alike and indicates policy orientations that Arab governments civil society citizens and international actors could adopt in response.
Arab Human Development Report 2005
Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World
Gender inequality is generally recognized as one of the main obstacles to development in the Arab Region. This volume of the Report focuses on the history and contemporary dynamics of Arab women's economic political and social empowerment. It details the processes in which gender impacts on Arab development while suggesting means of overcoming some of the challenges and building more equitable societies.
Arab Human Development Report 2003
Building a Knowledge Society
The Arab Human Development Report Series aims at building human development in the Arab world. The 2003 report surveys the most salient trends that influenced the process of human development in 2002-2003 and provides a thorough analysis of one of the major challenges the Region faces: its growing knowledge gap. The Report evaluates the current production of knowledge examines the sociological context of knowledge acquisition and highlights the landmarks necessary to establish a knowledge-based society in the Arab countries.
Arab Human Development Report 2002
Creating Opportunities for Future Generations
This report the first regional Human Development Report (HDR) for the Arab States focuses on the people of the Arab world particularly the citizens of the 22 member states of the Arab League from Maghreb to the Gulf. The report shows that Arab countries have made significant strides in more than one area of human development in the last three decades. Nevertheless it also illustrates the shortcomings in the areas of freedom empowerment of women and knowledge. No generation of young Arabs has been as numerous as today. For that reason the report is especially mindful of the children of marginalized and oppressed Arabs not excluding the Palestinian children. For that reason the Report team has dedicated this first issue to coming generations. The report was prepared by a team of Arab scholars and as such is a look in the mirror. It is aimed at stimulating discussion and debate by policy-makers practitioners and the general public on how to best tackle the most pressing challenges to improving human development across the region.