Sharing royalties with local communities and Governments

19. No land use strategy will be effective without community cooperation and appropriate enforcement.

Strengthening local communities

Community involvement in land use management is essential because the capacity of authorities to enforce the regulations will always be limited.

The role of civil society, especially of communities with local knowledge, is crucial.

Even the capture of sea turtles as food required that they be shared by the entire community under threat of prohibitions for violating community norms.

Yet even the best systems cannot work without the involvement of local communities and their volunteers.

Notable developments in the integration of local and indigenous communities have included the establishment of community based management and ownership initiatives that are intended to generate income for local use and promote local responsibility for sustainable forest management.

And then we've gone out into the big outdoors, always with local community consent, always with the necessary permits.

The latter provided for the establishment of Governments of the Autonomous Regions, comprising a Regional Council, a Regional Coordinator and municipal and communal authorities, with decision making power regarding the use of natural resources.

And none is used exclusively by settlements or Palestinian communities.

Development of co operation with social bodies of the local community

The overall goal of this strategy has been to integrate people suffering from mental disorders in the local community.

(f) Assessment of environmental sensitivity and proper land use of coastal urban areas.

This applies equally to host communities at resettlement sites and affected persons, groups and communities subjected to forced eviction

In this regard, a greater effort should also be placed on working with local district authorities in developing programmes that are suited to communities.

The exercise of cultural rights by members of indigenous communities is closely associated with territory and the use of its resources.

(a) The effective participation and involvement of indigenous and local communities in policy development and decision making relating to the use of their traditional knowledge and practices relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity

Similarly, current use of contraceptives in urban areas is about five times higher than in the rural ones (15 against 3 ).

Thailand accords priority to the strengthening of the resilience of local communities in the affected areas.

The Conference of the Parties has been actively considering the question of the preservation of sacred sites and lands and waters occupied by indigenous and local communities.

(d) Capacity building of local communities, institutions and authorities

(c) Respecting human rights of local and indigenous communities the extractive industry's close link to the land sometimes required the relocation and resettlement of local communities.

It is important to work with and include local communities in the design of crime prevention initiatives. A well planned crime prevention strategy includes

And this recognition must also give local communities a decisive voice in the decisions about resource use in their areas.

A community technology centre could also provide a local capacity to evaluate and implement information technology.

(c) Supporting traditional rights of local communities

Community participation remained strong in the social services programme, where local volunteers played an important role in the work of community centres, and most centre costs were covered by fees for activities and income generation projects.

Bearing in mind the important role played by non governmental organizations (NGOs) and local communities in the implementation of the Convention,

The international community should support a total ban on the production, use, trading and stockpiling of landmines.

Communities have found that decentralization, even if demand driven, is not a panacea for the problem of empowerment of local communities.

The need to strengthen the capacity of local communities was highlighted.

(a) The responsibilities of business towards indigenous and local communities.

Further, participants identified a role for these Governments in building capacity of stakeholders host Governments, national civil society, as well as local and indigenous communities so that local partners were better equipped to protect human rights.

Information dissemination should target particularly farmers and local communities (e.g., information on identification and assessment of appropriate technology to enhance their capacity to capture and use endogenous technologies), the media and politicians.

Indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable in this regard

This person could assist and advise the local people and local community.

(f) Indicators concerning civil society, local community participation and traditional knowledge should be included.

Particular attention should be paid to local communities, involving local leadership and grassroots organizations.

In fact, the Indigenous Peoples and Community Development Unit has finalized guidelines for ethno engineering which would enable the planning, design and construction of community infrastructure using local decision making processes, traditional knowledge and materials and participatory community based execution mechanisms.

The information will be provided to local health and education authorities and community groups and used to design culturally appropriate intervention strategies.

In Cape Town, South Africa, a community action planning process has been used to bring local communities together with the police to map and analyse where crime occurs and to develop solutions, while the Western Cape has used a community participative strategy (Bambanani) to improve its service delivery methodology.

(e) Community participation management, strengthening of local capacities

The mainstay of this effort must be the local community.

Support to the local communities and cities in subject of agrarian land management in coordination with the extension and the inquiry.