This should make local government more appealing to citizens.

(a) Citizens of Latvia State and local governments State and municipal enterprises

Even when local governments are not directly responsible for these services, it is to their local governments that citizens turn.

(iv) Creation of local energy agencies to advise local authorities, citizens and small and medium sized enterprises on best practice for energy management.

Mechanisms must also be put in place to build trust between citizens and local governments.

104. Citizens participation has also been strengthened, at both the local and the national level.

In each of these cities, the local citizens, hundreds and hundreds of them, have made a reef.

Decentralized service delivery also allows for greater involvement of citizens in providing feedback on public services, and therefore for a better match between local services and local needs.

For decentralization to improve living conditions of local citizens, local authorities required proper and adequate financial support, ensuring that power transfer was commensurate with the transfer of funds.

However, politics were local and there was a widening gap between what citizens demanded and what Governments could deliver.

Where appropriate, ICT applications are used to encourage interactive relationships between governments, local authorities and citizens, and within citizen groups.

Kazakhstan was currently working on a draft law on local government and self government which provided for the increased participation of citizens in the work of local elected organs of power.

Speakers recognized urban governance as a local issue, which also has national and international implications for the well being of citizens.

While local Serbs have demonstrated a general willingness and determination to assume their rights and responsibilities as Croatian citizens, deep apprehensions remain.

Will citizens find themselves drawn into conflicts based on local and regional jealousies or will they focus on future cooperation among neighbours?

The application of ICT in local government operations, for example by establishing electronic public information offices, has enabled local governments policymakers and public officials to better interact with the public, particularly individual citizens.

Favourable conditions have been created for encouraging initiatives and activity by citizens at the local level and for the comprehensive development of local self government as the foundation for the life of the State.

Opportunities for citizens to be engaged through voluntary action at the local level and have their action recorded and recognized are steadily expanding.

It was noted that urban governance is a local issue which also has national and international implications for the well being of citizens.

Through a comprehensive range of support resources, individual members can be empowered to become active and effective citizens in their local and global community

It was also recognized that local and municipal governments needed to be empowered if they were to be amenable to the participation of citizens.

This enables middle level bureaucrats to review the performance of their subordinates (d) Publicize citizens complaints in the local media (television spots, for example).

Within a community based organizations approach, citizens are directly engaged through community consultations, citizen's charters, and other mechanisms in articulating local and national interests, designing and evaluating local programmes, and ensuring that public officials are accountable.

In cooperation with UNDP and bilateral partners, MINUSTAH has undertaken a programme to support the local public administration, to strengthen the legal framework and to enhance the participation of citizens in local decision making and planning.

They are also more likely to work without the protection of local labour standards or the rights to health care and treatment accorded to citizens.

The victims included local citizens, officials, visiting national and foreign journalists and humanitarian workers in the region, such as the ICRC hospital workers who were murdered.

Providing a safe and secure environment for their citizens is one of the primary roles of local governments. Since crime and victimization occur at the local level, local governments have a key role in the development of safety and security, and such governments are in a strategic position to act effectively.

Local democratic processes that recognize social inclusion and citizens' rights to basic services to be acknowledged as crucial to improving the quality of life of women, and local governments that develop gender friendly policies to be supported by international agencies.

Municipal councils Governors Mayors More women are found on the local administrative boards, where citizens participate in planning, determination of investment schemes and control of public services at the local level, but they are still very few in comparison with men.

Of the 14 successful candidates, 10 are United States citizens, and two are United States permanent residents, making a total of 12 candidates eligible for local recruitment.

In coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with local citizens' organizations, courses on installing more reading rooms for Mexican communities and people of Mexican origin abroad.

A few years ago, the World Values Survey questioned respondents in scores of countries about their attachments to their local communities, their nations, and to the world at large. Not surprisingly, those who viewed themselves as national citizens greatly outnumbered those who regarded themselves as world citizens.

Since 1992, more than 6,000 local governments and their partners have embraced local Agenda 21 as a framework for good governance and the advancement of sustainable development.2 In 113 countries around the world, local government leaders, civil servants and citizens are working in partnership to accelerate the transition to sustainable, equitable and secure communities.

Concerned citizens

Engaging citizens

Hello, citizens!

respectable citizens.

Along these lines, let me highlight that our Government recently launched what we call a Plan for Democratic Security, which is aimed at curbing crime in local neighbourhoods through sensitizing police work to the needs of our citizens, thereby promoting citizens' integration into fighting the plague which crime represents.

The involvement of citizens in community affairs needs to be seen as an integral part of the decentralization process Countries need to examine the possibility of using not only the national budget, but funding from international donors to provide support for cities More emphasis needs to be put on addressing the needs and priorities of local citizens in addition to re empowering and re energizing cities and local authorities.

Citizens and Democracy

D. Citizens security

Citizens of Odessa!

Citizens of Czechoslovakia...

Citizens of Rome.

Citizens of Valencia!