Local LWV organizations monitor their local government meetings and address local issues.

Local and Regional Energy Related Environmental Issues (1995)

Local LWV organizations can act in their communities on these issues.

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

Local development plans give greater consideration to social issues and poverty reduction.

The issues of decentralization and the empowerment of local authorities were extensively debated.

Besides exceeding the mandate, these cases involve issues that are matters of local jurisdiction, questions for local authorities or domestic business arrangements established under and subject to local regulations.

(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

Over time, as local follow up activities are organized, national plans of action should become more responsive to priorities and issues that arise from local plans of action, including local Agendas 21.

4. Five NGO workshops and documentation on issues related to the Convention CST local area development local technology and Global Mechanism national desertification funds ( 77,700)

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.

Local authorities could not resolve the issues of AIDS, poverty, the environment, and housing by themselves.

State and local LWV organizations also have positions they have arrived at in their state or local consensus process and they can act locally on these issues.

There are many factors that position local governments as key stakeholders in energy, air and climate issues.

By using religious and ethnic issues, they incite the local people to react in a negative manner.

6. Encourages all countries to ensure local and community level engagement in policy issues of human resources development

The information centres also ensured television, radio and newspaper coverage of ageing issues in national and local media.

The International Council for Caring Communities organized three events to mainstream ageing issues at local and international levels.

Urban issues would be best addressed if UN Habitat was supported in strengthening the roles of local governments.

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

5) Discussions, and an on site visit, relating to Bedouin women issues, in cooperation with the local Bedouin population

Yet there is limited awareness of, and capacity to deal with, critical child protection issues among the local authorities.

Many produced their own radio and television programmes on the issues, for broadcast free of charge by local stations.

Local communities had influenced decision making, improved resource mobilization, and increased media attention to such issues as violence against women.

These issues included institutional strengthening, implementation of land administration systems, use of local building materials and improvement of environmental infrastructure.

They have the capability to present United Nations themes and issues in a way that is meaningful to local audiences.

MICIVIH s knowledge of local issues, field experience and linguistic skills have been of considerable utility to MIPONUH and its predecessors.

b. Training workshops or field trips to United Nations project sites, in cooperation with the local United Nations system partners, for local journalists so as to promote better understanding of United Nations issues and organization of training sessions for local United Nations librarians

Promoting issues relating to women's health and well being through periodic conferences and seminar, and providing tools to assist local advisors on the status of women in activating local projects on women's health.

States, at national, subnational and local levels, should establish mechanisms to receive, process and refer issues, claims and information in relation to the Guidelines and to the human rights issues raised therein.

Issues to be addressed will include access, connectivity, policy and regulatory frameworks, e government, e commerce, and development of local content.

Other precautionary measures were the exhaustion of local remedies and giving the opportunity to domestic courts to identify the issues involved.

She emphasized the vital, often overlooked role played by local voices in putting women's issues on the global and national agenda.

Other United Nations agencies and local and international non governmental organizations specializing in women s issues and disability provided technical assistance, and together with local embassies, were an important source of funding for community centres.

The credit institution issues a loan to students from poor families after it has received the guarantee from the respective local government.

In the province of Gitega, the local provincial authorities highlighted other relevant issues such as refugees, security and social and economic matters.

After that, the issues of country ownership, of a comprehensive approach and of working together the Council, the Bank and other agencies to support a strengthened local Government and local ownership, are exactly the same.

Among the issues discussed were identification of strategies and methodologies for enhancing collaboration and coordination between local communities and national level actors and scientists preparation and implementation of local level synergistic projects capacity building needs, and provision of incentives for synergistic implementation at the local level.

The issues discussed in the third segment included advocacy for the importance of local self government and the development of decentralization and democratic local governance introduction of the Global Observatory of Local Democracy (GOLD) a partnership mechanism which will act as a local democracy watchdog and monitor progress on the development of good governance and democracy at local level and effective decentralization around the world.

Other United Nations agencies and local and international non governmental organizations specializing in women apos s issues and disability provided technical assistance and, together with local embassies, were an important source of funding for community centres.

Local organizations which had previously supported the initiatives feared that reconciliation was premature and that resurrecting painful issues could lead to more problems.

GEOMANAGEMENT programmes and projects at international, national and local levels should be defined on the basis of a clear definition of priority issues.

The UNHCR branch office in Maputo has been reduced to 12 staff members (2 international and 10 local), focusing mainly on protection issues.

7. A training manual for local authorities on how to deal with street children and shelter issues (to be issued in August 1997).

Provision is made to cover the cost of engaging two local consultants for five months, one to advise on local legal matters at a cost of 900 per month ( 4,500) and the other to assist in conducting research on local political issues as necessary at 300 per month ( 1,500).