Because each municipality represents a single case solutions have to take into account the diversity of circumstances and factors conditioning the local context.

The Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme is a global network of institutions, with an international award programme established in 1995 by the Municipality of Dubai.

Among the leaders of local governments there are even fewer women than in the central government 12.8 of city mayors are women (five out of 39 mayors are women) and 13.4 of rural municipality mayors (27 out of 202 rural municipality mayors are women) (in December 2004).

Office of Head of municipality

In Ecuador, local level gender responsive budgeting initiatives resulted in a municipal decree making it a priority to hire women for infrastructure projects funded by the municipality of Cuenca, and in the establishment of a fund for local women's microenterprise initiatives.

In addition to social security programmes and schemes, which are applicable for women in both urban and rural areas, cities and local governments also provide different benefits under the Local Government Organisation Act and the Rural Municipality and City Budget Act.

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.

The functions of a local government include the organisation of social assistance and services, welfare services for the elderly, youth work, housing and utilities, the supply of water and sewerage, the provision of public services and amenities, territorial planning, public transportation within the rural municipality or city, and the maintenance of rural municipality roads and city streets.

No municipality has finalized a municipal development plan.

2.5 Works for the urban pavement of Municipality of Mercedes the contract was concluded between the Municipality and the first and the second authors in 1969.

However, there are not many women among the leaders of local government councils 15.4 of the chairpersons of city councils and 12.4 of chairpersons of rural municipality councils are women (as at 15 January 2003).

Their main function is to collect taxes from the municipality.

And when you're a legal sub municipality, you suddenly have politics.

The installation of the said pumps would have substantially improved the supply of drinking water to some 250,000 people, covering 95 per cent of Arroyo Naranjo municipality, 20 per cent of Boyeros municipality and some zones of 10 de Octubre municipality, all of which are in Ciudad de La Habana province.

There is the same division of responsibilities between the federal, cantonal and municipality levels.

The task of the local government is the organisation of the implementation of health care legislation and monitoring compliance with the legislation, as well as the prevention of diseases and promotion of health among the population within the territory of the respective municipality.

The municipality takes care of points 8 to 10 in accordance with its material capacities.

(Signed) Rosa María Ostogain Etxeberria President of Euskal Fondoa Mayor of the Municipality of Berriz

In July, the Israeli local planning committee of the Jerusalem municipality approved the construction of a new settlement in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, while the Knesset approved assistance for the improvement of the infrastructure of and agriculture in Jordan Valley settlements.

In Republika Srpska, health insurance is centralized (single health insurance fund with its municipality based offices).

At the same time, the Municipality of Athens organized training seminars and events to sensitize professionals.

Prime Minister Haradinaj is taking action with municipality leaders to encourage progress in upcoming reporting periods.

Pre school education is the responsibility of the municipality and falls under the jurisdiction of social care.

The municipality, as central authority, designates the agency that will monitor compliance, in practice often the police.

Creating in each municipality a Focal Point as a credible entity and a facilitator for Agenda 21.

It is not mandatory and the number of children attending it varies from one municipality to the other.

The right to material support, benefits for the support and care of another person, assignment to a social care institution or accommodation with another family and social work service are regarded to be rights of general interest, and provision for them is the responsibility of local communities (municipality, city).

The distance from municipality centers, centers for social work, health care institutions, and employment institutes, presents an additional problem.

Despite the necessity of rerunning the elections in Zvornik municipality, the elections in the Republika Srpska passed off peaceably.

Rosa María Ostogain Etxeberria, Euskal Fondoa and Mayor of the Municipality of Berriz (A C.4 60 5 Add.4)

Presentation of such a petition would have obliged the municipality to accept the petition for review and to examine the factual situation.

The other 800 homes will be built for the community of Rio das Rãs and the communities of the Municipality of Alcântara.

Soon after the Hong Kong activists' protest landing on the disputed islands, Japanese citizens, including local assembly members, staged their own landing there. Moreover, the Japanese government, while rejecting a further appeal from Ishihara to provide land on the isles to the Tokyo municipality, is, however, raising money to purchase some of the islands from their supposedly bankrupt Japanese owner.

The rights to material support, assistance for aid and care of another party, placement in a social care institution or placement in another family, and the services of social work in conducting their public responsibilities, are found to be the rights of general interest and it is the responsibility of the local community (municipality and city) that they be provided.

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

And the second aspect is that once you have 2,000 people in the community, you can petition the government to be recognized as a legal sub municipality.

Further, the Municipality has passed a law directing that all revenue from sewage and sanitation taxes (about US 10 million) should be invested exclusively in the sewage system.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality, in cooperation with the Municipality of Athens, operates a shelter, which provides accommodation to women victims of violence and their underage children.

The existing Welfare structures and the programmes of social care that are under way per Municipality, Prefecture and Region are recorded for the first time in this Chart.

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

In another recent case on 30 January 2005, police allegedly shot and killed one person who was clearing roads for the municipality, reportedly at the instigation of a resident.

The municipal resolutions, which are general policy documents on the issue of housing in the municipality, make no mention of Roma and the petitioners infer an incorrect causal link.

Consultation for professional development support to 8 women executives of the companies ΕLGΕΚΑ and ΑΤΤΙΚΟ ΜΕΤRΟ and of the Municipality of Athens, for empowerment and promotion to higher positions.

Municipalities have not used police support or other powers to prevent or sanction illegal occupation (a priority) only two municipality requests for police support were made during the quarter.

At the moment, financing is the responsibility of the municipality budgets, so that the fate of pre school education depends on the material and financial situation of the individual municipalities.