Community Issues in Decentralization (Khare) The State, Forests and Communities in Guatemala (Elias Wittman) Decentralized NRM in Zimbabwe ( Hlambela Kozanayi) Decentralizing Protected Area Management in the Philippines (Makapukaw)

Sustainability of monitoring functions could be promoted by decentralizing management.

Lastly, the Institute includes decentralized offices called regional institutes for the promotion of women.

The Ministry wanted to decentralize its work to target rural and urban areas. Another issue raised concerned legal texts.

The organizations with highly decentralized procurement operations in over 100 different locations, such as UNDP and UNICEF, not included in the table, would logically have more procurement staff overall than organizations with mostly centralized operations.

Additional ecological values should be conserved at a landscape level through decentralized multifunctional management systems.

Decentralization and the implementation of nfps should include monitoring and evaluation with clear, specific variables and indicators.

This tool would indicate the range of institutional, financial, economic and social issues that need to be addressed and conditions central to the building up of a negotiated consensus or agreement on forest sector decentralization.

Local institutions must be representative, and powers must be securely transferred in order to achieve effective decentralization.

The National Institute for Migration is a decentralized technical body of the Ministry of the Interior. It is responsible for the planning, execution, monitoring, supervision and evaluation of migration services.

The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law.

The main mandate of the SUS' state level administration is to promote the decentralization of services implement actions and procedures in order to complement the municipal activities and provide them with technical and financial support.

The law, for example, could be used to favor institutions (like the family) that incubate commitment, and to decentralize decision making to the maximum practicable extent.

In Pakistan, UNODC supported district officials in assuming new decentralized drug control responsibilities and helped drug law enforcement agencies to engage in more extensive subregional cooperation.

The international association United Cities and Local Governments held a unification congress in 2004 and draft guidelines on decentralization and strengthening of local authorities were prepared and widely disseminated.

Besides a broader view of the Agrarian Reform, the Plan also turns the access to land more democratic by decentralizing the land ownership structure.

That's a key trend, which is decentralization, moving from centralized nuclear power plants and liquid natural gas tankers to decentralized resources that are environmentally more friendly, a lot more efficient and capable and safe from disruption.

In Silicon Valley, for example, the government has acted as a strategic investor through a decentralized network of public institutions The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, the Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR), and the National Science Foundation.

Although often classified as a group, the countries in transition are heterogeneous by history, economy, natural conditions and availability of forest resources, as well as in the degree of decentralization of their political and economic structure.

When we talk about bottom up, decentralized phenomena, the ant colony is the classic metaphor, because, no individual ant knows what it's doing, but collectively ants are able to reach incredibly intelligent decisions.

But the decrees incited strong opposition from many of the revolutionary forces that helped to overthrow Mubarak (as well as from forces loyal to him), with protests erupting anew in Cairo s Tahrir Square.

Some human resources management systems, for example, had moved from being very decentralized with no central guidance or information collection in the first year of analysis, to having more limited decentralization within a central guiding framework in the third year.

Another area of concern is the potential for antagonism arising between the newly elected district councils and the traditional and chieftaincy authorities, particularly over the control and sharing of financial resources, which can negatively affect progress towards effective decentralization.