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Regional
Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries

In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This report is prepared by independent scholars drawn from the region. The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people’s options. Human security refers not only to questions of survival, but...

Arab States - 2009

Arab Human Development Report 2005
Empowerment of Arab Women

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 States - 2005

Arab Human Development Report 2004
Towards Freedom in the Arab World

The Arab Human Development Report 2004 delves into the constitutional, legal, political, and social flaws and constraints on freedom that impede good governance in the Arab region, and presents a strategic vision for promoting good governance as a means of encouraging different Arab societies to explore and define their own specific paths towards achieving an Arab renaissance.

Arab States - 2004

Arab Human Development Report 2003
Building a Knowledge Society

AHDR 2002 challenged the Arab world to overcome three cardinal obstacles to human development posed by widening gaps in freedom, women’s empowerment and knowledge across the region. Looking at international, regional and local developments affecting Arab countries since the report was issued confirms that those challenges remain critically pertinent and may have become even graver, especially in the area of freedom. Nowhere is this more apparent than the status of Arab knowledge at the beginn...

Arab States - 2003

Arab Human Development Report 2002
Creating Opportunities for Future Generations

The first Arab States' Report acknowledges that Arab countries have made substantial progress over the past three decades. Life expectancy has increased by 15 years; mortality rates for children under five years of age have fallen by about two thirds; adult literacy has almost doubled, reflecting large increases in gross educational enrollments. Yet it is obvious that Arab countries have not developed as quickly as comparable nations in other regions. Indeed, more than half of Arab women are...

Arab States - 2002

National
Advancing Sustainable Development
Qatar National Vision 2030

The Report underscores major environmental challenges that Qatar faces and that need to be appropriately resolved, particularly achieving water security, reducing carbon emissions and increasing energy efficiency, and mitigating risks that threaten the safety of the marine environment. The Report argues that assessing the severity of risks and handling required change will entail mobilizing resources, coordinating efforts and putting appropriate policy and regulatory frameworks in place. The ...

Qatar - 2009

Egypt’s Social Contract
The Role of Civil Society

The report centres-in on the developmental role of civil society in light of worldwide government recognition of the pivotal role of civil society, and particularly think tanks, which are increasingly being invited to contribute to social policy formulation. Building on the previous Egypt Human Development Report, which identified the need for a new social contract, this year’s Egypt Human Development Report aims to highlight the key role of civil society organizations; their key role as part...

Egypt - 2008

Toward a Citizen’s State

Toward a Citizen’s State is the fourth National Human Development Report (NHDR) for Lebanon. Work commenced on this current report at the end of 2005 in partnership with the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR). Citizenship is the primary theme of this report which addresses citizenship and the sectarian state, and the relationship of the state, its institutions, its constitution including personal status laws to citizen. It also focuses on socio-economic citizenship rights and co...

Lebanon - 2008, 2009

Rapport National sur le Developpment Humain

Le présent rapport dont le thème est " le développement territorial" offre une vision du développement humain avec la tentative de calculer l'indicateur de développement humain (IDH) à un niveau régional. Les indicateurs du développement humain sont calculés non seulement au niveau national global, mais également à une échelle plus fine, ciblant les régions à travers les statistiques nationales d'une part, et d'...

Algeria - 2007

Adequation, formation et emploi
Une dimension du développement humain

Les problématiques de la formation et de l'emploi se situent au coeur même du développement humain. Elles sont également au centre de Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD) adoptés par presque toutes les nations du monde et dont la réalisation consacrera sans doute l'émergence d'une société inclusive où, tous, femmes et hommes,mèneront une vie meilleure. En effet, la formation procédent à la capacitation...

Djibouti - 2007