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

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.

(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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A number of workshops have been held to discuss the issues and share the progress and results of the project with stakeholders at all levels (ministry officials, local governments, schools, communities, parents and the local business sector).

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

The teams also held discussions with local religious and tribal leaders to enlist their support for the protection of civilians, and raised with local authorities issues related to extortion and protection money paid by civilians to armed militia.

A number of countries reported local level activities targeting women, but there is no evidence that gender issues are addressed at the policy level.

They also acknowledged that many such technologies exists at local levels and that financing remains one of the main issues for enhancing their deployment.

A great many activities at the national and local levels focused on increasing public awareness of important family issues and the contributions made by families.

It regularly urged local authorities to appoint advisers on women's issues, and it provided training and organized follow up conferences and seminars for those advisers.

LWV members at local, state and national levels act in the public interest after study and member agreement on key public policy and community issues.

Convinced also that responsibility for road safety rests at the local, municipal and national levels, and recognizing that many developing countries have limited capacities to address these issues,

People who come to the clinic are called, not patients, but impatients, because they're too impatient to wait for legislative change to address local and environmental health issues.

Gender center of Republika Srpska opened offices in Banja Luka, Prijedor, Gradiška and Laktaši with the task to deal with issues of gender Equality at local community level.

Thanks to the UNITAR partnership with local and municipal authorities and businesses, cities and municipalities worldwide currently focused on a number of specific social issues, including HIV AIDS.

His country would appreciate continued assistance from UNHCR in order to improve current programmes and strengthen cooperation between government institutions and local non governmental organizations on such issues.

But with lots of intelligent people focusing on whether food is organic or local, or whether we're being nice to animals, the most important issues just aren't being addressed.

The meetings typically consist of two segments a closed session reserved for inter agency discussion of common issues and an open session for exchanges with the local business community.

Gender Center of Federation of BiH, at the proposal of the Commission for Gender Issues of the municipality of Travnik, has initiated the process of gender mainstreaming in local communities.

To guarantee that the needs and particularities of local people are taken into account the project is being implemented by La Mosquitia Development Agency, a local non governmental organization, which has been dealing with the development issues of the indigenous peoples of La Mosquitia for more than 20 years.

The main opportunities include an increase in national capacity, commitment and resources to address children's issues, stronger child friendly legal and policy frameworks for responding to key child protection issues, a major inflow of resources related to the tsunami emergency and a strong local funding base.

Training at the local level in leadership, organization, hygiene and other issues regarding preserving the safety of water supplies should be a priority when bringing water delivery systems to the people.

d. Regular and ad hoc monitoring of local media and transmission to Headquarters of articles or summaries of articles and daily and or weekly press reviews featuring major United Nations issues

Earlier this year I travelled to Afghanistan, where issues of justice for past abuses and the continuing impunity of local commanders operating beyond the control of the Government constitute great concerns.

You know, it's local cooks teaching local people.

Quite often, such solutions involve campaigns organized at the local, national and international level, in cooperation with NGOs and other groups in civil society on such issues as HIV AIDS and asbestos.

To improve gender equality and justice at national, provincial and municipal levels, the Government had revised the law on decentralization, forcing local authorities to integrate gender issues into every stage of development.

Effectively functioning institutions parliaments, political parties, electoral management bodies, civil service, local government bodies provide mechanisms through which citizens can articulate their views, participate in issues that affect them, and safeguard their interests.

The activities undertaken by WFP of relevance to the UNCCD involve the participation of local communities and aim to prevent degradation and to conserve natural resources while raising public awareness on environmental issues.