Squatter settlements are being upgraded through partnerships between central and local government and the private sector.

The private sector has played a key role in sustaining Somalia in the absence of a functional central government.

57. Employment in the government sector, consisting of the central Government, provincial councils and local authorities, was estimated to be 699,898 as at the end of 1994.

Sustainability will be ensured through stakeholder involvement (including with private sector operators), central and local authorities government, rural communities and entrepreneurs and NGOs.

The diverse arrangements for conducting this dialogue include consultative councils, government private sector boards, joint government private sector seminars, workshops, and other government private sector forums.

(i) To advance the dialogue between government and the SME sector, the experts recommended that all levels of government federal or central, state or provincial, and local, municipal or regional participate fully

C. Government private sector relations

The government sector mechanisms are

III. Government private sector interaction

These mechanisms can be classified into two broad categories government sector and non government sector wage fixing mechanisms.

A. Private sector organizations, particularly of SMEs, in government private sector interaction

Maternity benefits in the government sector

Government private sector partnership and cooperation

C. Government control over the mining sector

C. Government private sector relations 60 65

A. Channels of government private sector dialogue

(i) Channels for government private sector dialogue

(a) Channels for Government private sector dialogue

Government private sector interaction, with a particular

III. Government private sector interaction 14 43

in government private sector interaction 21 27

B. Forms of government private sector interaction

29. Deliberation councils and other similar arrangements have become the central element in promoting government business interactions and in obtaining inputs from the private sector for official policy making.

The Joint Public Private Sector Consultative Committee (JPPCC) was the mechanism for Government private sector relations.

The central Government has extended its powers beyond Kabul.

B. Forms of government private sector interaction 28 35

27. An efficient government service with sector specific expertise is necessary for credibility with the private sector.

As minority shareholders in firms whose managers are appointed by the Central Personnel Ministry, private actors cannot influence decision making. Until the central government is willing to yield its control over SOE management, ownership reforms are likely to spark only tepid interest from the private sector.

The Central Government of Spain subsequently announced the full takeover of local government power in Catalonia.

As the economy is heavily dominated by the government sector, with some 70 per cent of the workforce employed by government owned enterprises, the main focus of the review is public sector reform and private sector development.

In Somalia, the central government collapsed and clan warfare broke out.

Revenue transfers from central government to local authorities are one option.

Children's protection has been a central concern of the Federal Government.

This is often fuelled by unwarranted criticism from the central government.

The Government adapted its support to the needs of each sector.

REPORT OF THE EXPERT MEETING ON GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR ROLES

Input side of development financing Domestic resource mobilization (Government, private sector)

36. A regular and effective government private sector dialogue is essential for the flow of information, views and expectations from the government to the private sector and vice versa.

The value of approved developments for the residential sector was 57 million for the commercial and industrial sector, 53 million and for the government sector, 12 million.

Act 73 118 on the statute of the Central Bank of Mauritania, by which the Central Bank Governor derives his regulatory power in the banking and financial sector.

During July and August alone, the Multinational Force in the central south sector completed approximately 100 reconstruction projects.

The central efforts of my Government are aimed at decisively addressing poverty.

(ii) Contacts with central and local authorities of all branches of government

Deconcentration is a dministative decentralization, i.e. a transfer to lower level central government authorities, or to other local authorities who are upwardly accountable to the central government (Ribot 2002 in Larson).

The Social Forum calls on States to devise systems of accountability both at central and local levels, in the relationships between local and central Government, as well as within government institutions.