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Dr. Ghaith Fariz is the Director of UNESCO Regional Bureau for Sciences in the Arab States; Cluster Office for Egypt, Sudan, and Libya; and UNESCO Representative to Egypt. He is a strategic planner with extended international experience in the Arab and Asia regions in providing policy advice; planning; programming; and managing large portfolios in the fields of “knowledge societies/economies”, education, cultural development, poverty alleviation, and socioeconomic development. Also, he is an expert, with hand-on experience, in change management and in piloting UN reform with special emphasis on evaluation of impact, effectiveness and efficiency.
He has authored, coordinated/directed and substantially contributed to several land mark publications and papers as well as regional and international level developmental reports (Directors/ Coordinator: “Arab Knowledge Report: 2014 -Youth and Localization of Knowledge”; “Arab Knowledge Report 2010/2011-Preparing Future Generation for the Knowledge Society”; “Arab Knowledge Repot 2009-Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge”; “Water Governance in the Arab Region- Managing Scarcity and Securing the Future”. Coordinator of the “Arab Human Development Report 2005- Towards the Rise of Women in the Arab World”; and the “Arab Human Development Report 2004- Towards Freedom in the Arab World”; substantially participated in writing AHDRs of 2002 and 2003; and several other socioeconomic/cultural initiatives). He is the author of the first Arab Millennium Development Report 2003 and he supervised, and tangibly contributed to the formulation of several other developmental reports all over the Arab region. He also has publications in socioeconomic/ population-environment dynamics. He is an expert in gaming and simulation.
Ghaith Fariz has a Ph. D. in Planning from the University of Michigan, USA, with main course of research involving socioeconomic development, socioeconomic environment dynamics, and gaming & simulation for research and training. He is Jordanian and he is married with four children.
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Abstract |
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Knowledge and Science: The Gateway for achieving SDGs in the Arab region |
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Within the Arab regional context, this presentation highlights the central role and tight linkages between knowledge and sciences with goals and objectives of sustainable human development. With the 2030 SDG agenda framing future developmental global and regional developmental efforts, the presentation focuses on the anticipated potential role of knowledge and science in achieving these goals and in reaching associated targets in the Arab region. Potential science-interventions in the SDGs targets are mapped along with required impact and outcomes. Relevant Arab regional specifics; limitations and potentials, are also identified. Knowledge in its broadest sense, and STIs in particular, is seen as a gateway for advancing the SDGs 2030 in the Arab region |
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