c Before 1989 of regional State administrative bodies.

b Before 1989 of regional State administrative bodies.

The role of local government in facilitating the local realization of the Platform for Action is critical because

(c) As the level of government closest to the people, local authorities are leaders in the communities where on the ground action takes place.

A part of the tasks carried out by the governmental administration was transferred to local governments.

Decisions and acts (or inaction) of State government bodies, local government bodies, civil servants and officials may be appealed against in court.

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.

Actions undertaken by local authorities and their associations Local Government Platform for Action

Local government is conducted by 32 municipalities.

Local level governments are crucial in the implementation of commodity based development programmes.

In 2009, local governments were encouraged to create Special Purpose Vehicles, specifically local finance platforms (LFPs), to supplement China s RMB4 trillion ( 628.7 billion) stimulus package. The LFPs would borrow from banks using future government revenue as collateral to finance packaged investment projects in Chinese localities.

(e) Awareness raising activities carried out by NGOs and local authorities.

The Local Government Ordinance, 2001, governs elections to the local bodies.

Local governments have nevertheless made significant progress over the past ten years in developing a local government platform for action, the local version of the UN equality agenda.

impact

Local governments benefit from participating in Kyoto mechanisms, such as emissions trading, clean development mechanism and joint implementation.13 Giving credits to local governments for policies that they implement will facilitate market transformation and emission reductions.

Local actors, such as Governments, non governmental organizations and civil society, must be involved in the political process and in setting the peacebuilding agenda.

In order to best implement and control government programs, the Operative Group for Advancement of Women (G.O.) was created, with the objective to give an impulse to, supervise, and monitor, the implementation of programs and policies approved by Government in the area of women and gender.

Participation in local government

Administrative Framework There exists at the Federal level the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

In 2000, Local Governments expressed their concern before the United Nations General Assembly about the lack of reference to local governments' role in the Platform for Action.

Building the capacity of national and local Governments to address the employment issue must be part of UN Habitat programme approaches.

Mobilization and local partnership campaigns to lobby Governments and hold them accountable to their promises, encouraging them to turn goals set into goals met.

The executing agencies in the programme were national business organizations and other NGOs, semi governmental associations and the Government itself.

The members of the Committee met the local government authorities in Fez and several non governmental organizations involved in programmes for working children.

Inclusive local governments are crucial to achieving the kind of governance systems necessary to implement the Beijing Platform for Action.

Law No 22 of 1999 on Local Government and Law No 25 of 1999 on Balanced Finances between Central and Local Government transformed the political system from being highly centralized to a more decentralized one, allowing for more autonomy at local Government level.

Employment in government and local government service

The decentralization of power of authority from national to local levels of government is expanding rapidly worldwide.

Local governments could set similar targets for their cities.

The members of the Committee met the local government authorities in Fez and several non governmental organizations involved in programmes for working children.

Innovations can occur at all levels of government, i.e., central and local levels.

(a) To identify the governmental institution where an assistance programme for victims of crime and abuse of power can most appropriately be placed.

This requires inclusive processes that include line ministries, central banks, local government and community groups.

The number of local government jobs averaged 11,626 in fiscal year 2003, compared to 11,621 jobs in fiscal year 2002.

Even when local governments are not directly responsible for these services, it is to their local governments that citizens turn.

Public employees total Local government employees total

The Copenhagen Declaration and the Programme of Action of the Summit invite Governments to further strengthen and or establish broad based participatory national and local mechanisms for implementation and follow up based on partnerships of Governments (including local government), non governmental organizations, citizen and professional groups, and the private sector.

Moreover, since only Governments could access World Bank lending, the difficulty lay in mobilizing funds for local projects.

The manner in which a Government reacts to human rights violations committed by its agents, through action or omission, clearly shows the degree of its willingness to ensure effective protection of human rights.

providing support to, and coordinating, NGO participation at the COP to this end, and in order to facilitate an effective and representative participation from the non governmental community in the work of the COP and its subsidiary bodies, the Secretariat will continue to coordinate sponsorship for NGO participants, and to facilitate an NGO preparatory pre COP meeting.

As part of the Administrative Deregulation and Simplification Programme, to identify and eliminate useless aspects of government management at the federal, regional, state and municipal levels.

The Government of Iraq expressed its strong desire to cooperate with all parties to that end.

15. During the years 1980 1996, the territorial Government implemented its farms subdivision programme.

Organization of the work of Committee of Permanent Representatives working groups