The administrative difficulties involved with placing a focus on local conditions would be significant.

Development of synergistic implementation at the local level Synergy workshops with particular focus on the local level were organized in Kazakhstan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The focus is therefore upon background levels of persistent organic pollutants at locations not influenced by local sources

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.

Local governance remained the primary focus of UNCDF expenditure in 2004, accounting for 70 per cent of the total.

The main focus of activities for the observance of the anniversary, however, was at the national and local levels.

It is essential to focus on the local level, helping communities and local governments to take simple disaster mitigation measures and put elementary early warning and evacuation systems into place.

As the focus is determined by local conditions and the needs of particular target groups, so are the means employed.

These programmes concentrate on the training of trainers and local officials with a focus on non governmental and community based organizations and local government collaboration in local development and has expanded its programmes for local government capacity building in collaboration with non governmental organizations and other partners.

116. Past analysis of urban environmental problems has tended to focus on management decisions made by local governments and the role of local markets, but many environmental problems are created by outside sources.

Will citizens find themselves drawn into conflicts based on local and regional jealousies or will they focus on future cooperation among neighbours?

Urban safety for the poor through local government capacity building, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups in Asia and the Pacific

The National Transitional Government of Liberia should now focus on building the capacity of local administrations to deliver basic services to the population.

Civil affairs programmes would focus on local actors, and formal cooperation arrangements would be established with universities, faith based organizations, local civil society organizations and other institutions supporting the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Training activities conducted in the field and through the network of CIFAL centres focus on the promotion and establishment of public private partnerships between local communities, economic actors, national and local governments and oil gas companies.

The Institute obtained extrabudgetary funding for the project entitled Strengthening Governance with a Gender Focus and the Participation of Women at the Local Level .

In addition, the focus of most projects is on the facilitation of networking of local expertise, which does not require expensive infrastructure building activities.

Questions were raised as to whether the current framework of monitoring and implementation of the goals takes cognizance of the urban and the local dimensions, or whether it should focus on global, regional, national and local levels.

The importance of fisheries to many local communities in developing States was brought into stark focus by the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004.

The programme is active in the following focus areas strengthening of local government structures (municipalities) and civil society organizations (cooperatives, local community committees and non governmental organizations) execution of small scale infrastructure projects and initiation of regional development studies.

The Strategic Vision begins to show how that can be achieved, including by shifting the focus of UN Habitat from global policy discussion to local implementation.

India Restoration activities in Gujarat have improved water management, protected forested areas, increased planting of local species, and shifted the economic focus away from timber extraction.

Uniformity was not feasible in the area of competition, and the focus should be on attaining consensus on broad objectives, with adjustments to suit local needs.

The Fund has also shifted the focus of drought response from emergency relief to long term resilience, an approach that extends to new concepts for project design and implementation that focus on flexible approaches for assisting local populations in taking the initiative.

Developing countries should focus on building attractiveness at home by such means as, for example, strengthening the local enterprise sector and the skill endowment of the workforce.

Drivers, because of the fact that they are sometimes witness to events that may embarrass local officials, are also likely to become the focus of unwanted attention.

Focus on the principles of grass roots development, local ownership and human and cultural development that is integrated with economic prosperity, creativity and a diversity of project development.

Furthermore, only a few local engineers would be needed to focus on limited tasks. Network extensions would be relatively low cost, and could be funded by private sources.

Local level synergy workshops Two synergy workshops with a particular focus on the development of methodologies for the involvement of local level stakeholders in the creation of synergies were organized during the biennium 2004 2005, in Kazakhstan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Drawing from lessons learnt in implementing Agenda 21 through the setting up of local Agenda 21 initiatives, the special session should also focus its review on implementing the Habitat Agenda through actions at the local level and should make recommendation for future directions.

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Specific support will focus on community management of local water resources, including rainwater harvesting (for use by households and schools, and groundwater recharge), micro watershed management and operational research.

20.66 The focus of activities for the biennium will be on improving public sector management in the countries of the region with regard to planning, budgeting and local development.

They would be achieved by effective local and national governments that were committed to working for the people, and it was at that level local and national that he had proposed that the international community should focus its efforts to strengthen capabilities and institutions.

A proposed framework to determine how UNDP would strategically release the renewed TRAC 1.1.2 resources at the local level to focus on national capacity development activities is set forth below.

These materials were specifically developed with a view to their use by regional and local police forces in the framework of training courses with a special focus on anti discrimination.

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