The Ministry wanted to decentralize its work to target rural and urban areas.

Efforts to decentralize counselling and testing services, antiretroviral (ARV) treatment facilities and mother to child prevention have also expanded.

Central government has been reluctant to decentralize revenue generating sectors such as forests and mining, and the involvement of NGOs and civil society remains weak.

Hence the creation of the National AIDS Committee, and committees at the regional, prefecture and subprefecture levels, in order to decentralize the campaign against STD HIV AIDS.

OIOS believes that the redeployment of communication officers would be in line with the strategic commitment to decentralize 25 per cent of ECA staff into the subregions.

It notes with interest, however, the State party's plan to decentralize the Commission's offices and the information that the new draft Constitution contains provisions enhancing the effectiveness of the Commission (art.

To decentralize the health system, increasing the number of community agents, introducing first aid stations and mobile units that give aid to cities and communities that do not have infrastructure, nor people to help with this matter.

But Japan s government needs to think big and creatively. If towns suffering from depopulation before they were destroyed are transformed in their reconstruction, they could mark the emergence of a new model for regional development that can decentralize Japan s Tokyo centric economy.

Renewed efforts to implement the MDGs at the country level and further decentralize support to the regional service centres, offer real opportunities to build joint UNDP United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) regional knowledge hubs' within regional service centres to support country offices and United Nations country teams (UNCTs).

Decentralized management has helped German exporters triple their share of the global market for top quality goods compared to those firms that did not reorganize. Indeed, when I studied the top 1 of German exporters the country s export superstars I found that they more than doubled their share of the world export market when they opted to decentralize their organizations.

The ability to generate extrabudgetary funds has decreased over recent years owing to a number of factors, including the general evolution since 1992 towards national or direct execution of projects, a sharp reduction in the resources available at UNDP for United Nations execution of projects, and the tendency of bilateral agencies to decentralize, making access to bilateral funds extremely complicated.