We support the call for placing the Millennium Development Goals at the core of national development strategies tailored to local realities.

Database on local coping strategies

Local development projects in oil production areas should apply a participative approach involving major stakeholders civil society, State and local authorities, youth movements and local private companies to identifying needs and defining implementation strategies.

Involvement of the poor, particularly the rural poor, women and youth in the development of environmentally sound strategies for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals at the local and community levels should be ensured, as a central component of the success of such strategies.

The effective participation of the private sector, academia and local community based organizations in the development of integrated development policy would ensure the effective implementation and wide acceptance of strategies and measures.

Exchanging Weapons for Development in Cambodia An Assessment of Different Weapon Collection Strategies Assessed by Local People, by Geofrey Mugumya, 2004, United Nations publication, Sales No.

Those strategies have to be well designed and correspond to local realities.

(b) Developing national sustainable development strategies, including nationally owned poverty reduction strategies and sectoral policies and strategies

Electronic commerce strategies for development

Electronic commerce strategies for development

Development strategies and trade policy

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised about the role of incentives and the need to align positive corporate contributions with national development strategies in the interest of safeguarding the development opportunities of the local economy.

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National development strategies were also crucial.

Urges Member States, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and community leaders to strengthen and or, where relevant, to contribute to the development of national, local and regional crime prevention strategies

In view of the interactions between desertification control and poverty reduction, it appears essential to ensure the involvement of local communities in the preparation and implementation of national development strategies.

Support will also be given to enhance the competence of national and local authorities in formulating and implementing coherent sectoral and local strategies.

Strategies for development out of crisis conditions

Item 5 Electronic commerce strategies for development

Acknowledging the value of traditional knowledge, the LEG developed a database of local coping strategies.

Aid should be linked to the local needs identified in countries' national strategies and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, not to the interests of suppliers in donor countries.

These services and centres work through intermediaries, such as the media and local partners, to adapt global communications strategies for regional, national and local audiences.

It was underlined that the internationally agreed development goals should form essential elements of national development strategies including poverty reduction strategies, where they exist.

They have to develop more effective strategies in assessing local needs, allocating recourses and defining priorities.

The national strategies for the development of statistics

National sustainable development strategies could provide the policy framework for integrated planning of water, sanitation and human settlements, but ultimately the approach would have to be adopted and implemented at the local level.

In addition, the Local Governance Unit was rebranded' as UNCDF Local Development.

(a) Developing, where appropriate, comprehensive armed violence prevention programmes integrated into national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies

4. Also urges the adoption of comprehensive approaches to human resources development in designing and implementing development strategies at the national, subregional, regional and international levels and the sharing of best practices, while recognizing the role that local knowledge systems could play

(a) Incorporate gender perspectives into national development strategies for the implementation of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, through, inter alia, fully utilizing existing gender equality policies and strategies

It is important that poverty reduction strategies and national sustainable development strategies processes remain participatory and nationally owned, with external development partners providing technical and financial support.

Assistance to countries in preparing national statistical development strategies and getting support for these strategies from their own Governments

These strategies should be flexible so as to respond to changing conditions and various regional and local situations.

Strengthening statistical capacity is therefore essential to supporting the design, monitoring and evaluation of national development plans, including poverty reduction strategies, sector strategies, and the Millennium Development Goals.

We also believe that involving local people in the elaboration and implementation of post conflict strategies at an early stage is decisive in making such strategies more acceptable, viable and sustainable.

Training in the use of satellite imagery is particularly in demand at the local level where authorities and communities need geographical information to determine land use strategies, orient their development and manage their vulnerability to natural hazards.

Such initiatives should be coordinated with related development strategies and goals.

The Expert Group considered that a pilot project could be included in the SAICM implementation plans to delineate where chemical management issues are an inherent part of development and how work to improve chemicals management capacities can be incorporated into development assistance strategies, sustainable development strategies, and poverty reduction strategies.

The use of ICTs for tourism development can produce economic benefits by generating increased revenue for the local economy and contributing to local development.

Accelerated disease campaign strategies have shown the effectiveness of using performance data, micro planning, local communication and campaign type approaches.

Emphasize the need to strengthen policy and programme linkages and coordination between HIV AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, national development plans and strategies, including poverty eradication strategies, and to address, where appropriate, the impact of HIV AIDS on national development plans and strategies

The High level Plenary Meeting should endorse the systematic integration of environmental sustainability considerations into all national poverty reduction strategies, United Nations development assistance frameworks and national development plans, taking into account the World Summit on Sustainable Development target for the development of national sustainable development strategies.

UN Habitat must therefore focus on strategies to raise the awareness of youth about rights and the value of civic participation, and on building youth capacity to play an active role in local and national governance and development.

Need to integrate chemicals management into national planning and sustainable development strategies

Moreover, the conditions attached to aid often conflicted with domestic development strategies.