Starting this year, all local officials, governors, regents and mayors are directly elected by the people.

Models can come from the media, from our elected officials.

The panel included elected officials, public management experts, academics and administrators.

Conducting a research in cooperation with the Network of Elected Women in Local Authorities on The female force in Local Authorities Women Elected all over Greece .

They are readily understandable by citizens and elected officials and serve as a powerful rhetorical symbol.

Similarly, women were elected at 82 of the Jewish local authorities and only at 4 of the Arab local authorities.

The elected officials who received the Government Performance Project final report were often not the officials who had been present when the analysis was conducted, for example.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) provided training to 795 male and female candidates in the local elections and is developing a training programme for elected female officials in cooperation with the National Institute for Public Administration.

But what you're going to find eventually is you may need to actually get elected officials to help you out.

Bad leadership and lack of political will on the part of elected leaders and public officials breed corruption and poverty.

Over time, the progress of those institutions in meeting the objectives of citizens, elected officials and other stakeholders becomes critical.

Women had begun to be elected as village heads and to area councils and local government.

The proportion of women elected to local people's councils at all levels had also increased slightly.

Local government laws have often been violated municipal councillors and local mayors are not elected in accordance with the law, but appointed by presidential decree.

(b) Local officials and local partners were trained to promote the participation of local agencies, networking within or between the project sites, and to better understand rural urban migration issues

At the local level, a growing number of women had been elected to office in recent years.

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.

Since that time, the elected officials and staff of the Court have worked hard to prepare the Court for its judicial operations.

During the period under review, the UNOCI Rule of Law Unit met regularly with the local judiciary, including the National Union of Magistrates and local prison officials.

With so many political officials crafting crisis responses to solve local problems or to create local opportunities, how likely are they to agree on a unified international approach?

Local officials and the local population expressed gratitude for the emergency assistance received to date, but urged that longer term interventions focus on restoring their livelihood, particularly fishing.

207 women were elected to the local authorities' councils in the last elections a total of 10.3 of the electives.

Second of all, I'm going to recommend that you get into a proactive stance and write to your elected officials at least once a month.

All officials, including the Leader, President and members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, city and village councils are elected through the vote of the citizens.

Afterwards, there were large number of activities, seminars and campaigns implemented for increased number of women elected at local and parliamentary elections.

It was noted that the judiciary was not independent and that local officials had a tendency to interfere with legal matters.

Each of these human rights sessions was attended by hundreds of ordinary men and women as well as by local officials.

I was recently elected President of the Local Youth Council of Slatina, which operates within the framework of the Croatian National Youth Council.

In December 1999, Pitcairn elected its first Mayor, thus ending the century old practice of naming a magistrate to head the local government.

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.

The systems prize discretion and flexibility, advocate relaxation of rules in favour of results, and are typified by contract agreements between top leaders of organizations and elected officials.

Media often reported stories of unspeakable brutality by local officials against pregnant women and families who violated the policy a unique savagery captured in Ma Jian s novel The Dark Road. In a much publicized 2012 case, local officials in Shaanxi province forced a woman to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy.

After the amendments and supplements to the Law on Local Elections in 2004 (Article 37) 22.7 women councilors and 3.5 women mayors were elected.

National and local officials in threatened nations must be prepared to respond to warnings within minutes and to communicate warnings to local populations via sirens, mass media, specialized radio systems and other notification technologies.

In Afghanistan, demand reduction results included new research, local surveys and studies on the extent and patterns of local drug abuse and training of Afghan officials on drug abuse prevention and problem drug use.

CAIRO Egypt s first ever freely elected president, the Muslim Brotherhood s Mohamed Morsi, has appointed his first cabinet, and guess what? It is crammed with officials from the old regime.

On 29 April 2005, a meeting took place in Ethiopia between Ethiopian military officials and TFG officials, including the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Planning, Mohamed Dheere, local administration leader in charge of Jowhar, Abdikarim Farah Laqanyo, local administration leader in charge of Beledweyne and the Chief of Staff, General Naji, and others.

Field offices carried out large numbers of training seminars for military, police and justice officials, as well as mayors and other local authorities.

The Island Secretary and other non elected officials (such as the postmaster, the radio officer and the police officer) are appointed by the Governor, invariably after consultation with the Council.

The worst cases of outright manipulation occurred when local bureaucrats all appointed from above pressured voters to support President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Otan Party. This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.

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.

She applied for a job at the company that had not only bribed local officials but also caused huge problems for her own family.

He also undertook a follow up mission to Gitega where he visited the prison and the Mushasha primary school, and met with local officials.

The independent expert also met government officials, legislators, members of the judiciary and local authorities to discuss approaches to gang violence and juvenile justice.

In the last two elections in 1999 and 2002, 28.3 of the women who stood as candidates were elected to local government councils (see Table 7.1).