The facility links four key groups, comprising local authorities, community based organizations, local finance institutions and international donor programmes.

The local criminal groups consist of two distinct groups of traders and smugglers.

Integrated planning and policy making at all levels would be enhanced by strong coordinating and consultation mechanisms between local authorities and community based organizations and major groups.

This person could assist and advise the local people and local community.

In a collaborative effort, the Mission, the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development and local government authorities and civil society groups have launched an ongoing mediation initiative aimed at settling outstanding disputes at the provincial and district levels.

The experience of the Pacific Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands and our experience in Bougainville is that community involvement for example, through women's groups and church groups provides an important avenue for the development of local ownership of the solutions.

It is critical to bring in the voices of local authorities, community based organizations, women, youth, indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities and other groups with special interests or needs.

The rest is up to your local community.

The Office has made several missions to engage with local groups to establish relationships for cooperation and assessing interests of victims and invited community leaders to The Hague to discuss how to coordinate the respective efforts of the Office and community leaders.

Tag it. Attribute it. Metadata. Get the community to add local depth, global perspective, local knowledge.

Well, how it happened is the local community galvanized.

MINUSTAH continued its sensitization campaign with other illegal armed groups on a community by community basis.

Since local authorities played a key role in promoting innovative community oriented local governance, UN HABITAT promoted crime prevention at the local level.

All the major groups except for local authorities have participated in these dialogues.

Through the Bhagidari Cell, networks of local groups have grown from 20 citizen groups in 2000 to more than 1,600 citizen groups representing about 3 million people today.

Organization of discussion groups, with governmental and non governmental organizations participating, on plans and programmes relating to the highest priority basic needs of local community residents, and establishment of local committees to ensure that those programmes are launched, evaluate them, follow up their achievements and ensure that they continue

Who profits? Does anything justify what the local community goes through?

Development of co operation with social bodies of the local community

Local community members have contributed ideas and have helped to prioritize issues and make decisions on matters of local importance.

At the community level, however, such issues were dealt with by Omani women's associations and local community development centres.

Regarding the enhancement of local women's capacities for peacemaking and peacebuilding, I would only urge greater synergy and energetic interface with local women's groups.

Close collaboration with local and national entities, including civil society groups, would also be invaluable.

We cannot allow key local groups to be sidelined or marginalized in post conflict regions.

ΚΕTHΙ Athens and its branches organized events mainly addressing the local bodies involved, as well as scientific associations of the local community.

Speakers also stated that community based action must genuinely respond to local needs.

Speakers also stated that community based action must genuinely respond to local needs.

Cooperation should be strengthened, especially with local authorities, parliamentarians, women, youth, the academic community, civil society organizations and community based organizations.

In the process of elaboration of local Agenda 21 fora and working groups have to represent means of civic participation for deepening knowledge of local issues.

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.

The United Nations delegation and local officials supported the creation, jointly by international donors and local stakeholders, of innovative and collaborative approaches to local economic development and community mobilization and empowerment.

Confidence building activities have helped bring together local police, community leaders, students and others.

(f) Indicators concerning civil society, local community participation and traditional knowledge should be included.

They include Governments, community based organizations, civil society organizations, children's groups and international organizations.

Belonging to a local community is a condition sine qua non, even in certain conditions land could be attributed to individuals of another community.

Rwanda welcomes the commitment of Sant' Egidio Community to join the international community in working for a speedy disarmament and demobilization of these groups.

MINUSTAH organized focus groups, involving residents affected by violence and community leaders, to develop modalities for reintegrating juvenile members of the armed groups into their communities.

In line with the targets of connecting villages with ICTs and establishing community access points as well as encouraging the development of local content in local languages, the subprogramme organized two training workshops on the establishment of community e centres.

Whereas in the past, local groups might have received financial support from the leadership, this is no longer possible.

With an emphasis on community empowerment, the programme helps local residents organize their own self governing community institutions and then manage their own recovery efforts.

This enabled the involvement of larger number of women to the work of local community bodies.

Some of the things that emerge from it are local food projects, like community supported agriculture schemes, urban food production, creating local food directories, and so on.

15. Governments, with the support of the international community, should promote and encourage local knowledge systems and locally produced content in media and communications, support the development of a wide range of ICT based programmes in local languages, as appropriate, with content relevant to different groups of young persons, especially young women, and build the capacity of girls and women to develop ICT.

The National Development Program (Propenas 2000 2004) advocated two strategies to eradicate poverty, namely (a) satisfaction of the basic needs of the poor and protection of families and community groups living in poverty and, (b) assistance to community groups living in structural poverty.

In the Conakry region alone there are now 142 women's groups embracing 3000 fish wholesalers who, in addition to existing domestic groups, supply local and foreign markets with fresh and smoked fish.

The organized criminal groups, of which the Monitoring Group has identified two local and two transnational criminal groups, have existing infrastructure or clandestine pathways to move the arms from source to recipient.