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

Improved policy, good institutional capacity (at all levels), decentralized management, a viable private sector, cross sectoral partnerships.

The real time information provided by the system will lead to a more effective, efficient and decentralized management of resources.

Decentralized forest management should be based not only on controls but also incentives rules that cannot be enforced should not be made.

The transition to decentralized decision making and management of forests is likely to be costly, and the payoffs may not materialize immediately.

H. Decentralized cooperation programme

The UNDP community recovery programme was decentralized to achieve greater local empowerment of non governmental organizations and women's active involvement in and management of the programme.

The Department was highly decentralized.

Management must draw upon this local knowledge and decentralized systems are well adapted to do this. The existence of local knowledge and links with local cultures mean that decentralized systems are often better adapted to local conditions and are more resilient in the face of changing external conditions.

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)

It was too expensive to have decentralized social production, to have decentralized action in society. That was not about society itself.

Central and decentralized administration 25 per cent

The policy framework reflects High level Governmental Commitments in five important areas, namely (1) universal access (2) community based health services (3) family planning (4) decentralized management (5) local financial accountability.

Recent developments in close to nature forest management provide a model for a decentralized system that can yield good biodiversity conservation, consistent with the ecosystem approach adopted by the Convention on Biodiversity.

Particularly innovative were the policies to limit the number of students in each class, to create a reward system for high performing students and teachers and to institute a performance based contracting of headmasters.10 In general, recent innovative strategies include decentralized policy development, implementation and evaluation, as well as decentralized budgeting and expenditure management assessments.

In 1992, the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit gave credence to this approach by recommending that water management be decentralized, with farmers and other stakeholders playing a more important role in managing natural resources.

Bank regulation, like lending, was once decentralized and judgment based.

A completely decentralized free for all would benefit no one.

Gnutella, released in March, was the first decentralized file sharing network.

Significant human resource capacity was decentralized to better serve clients. A new management team was hired in mid 2004. The implementation of the Atlas system was initiated with some difficulties, which are being addressed through the Atlas stabilization and optimization project.

The main challenges of decentralized forest management include building a process that is sufficiently flexible to adapt to different municipal situations and one that can enhance local democracy.10 In Scotland, there has been a transfer from state to local control.

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.

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

In a decentralized structure, redundancy tends to be undersupplied in the process of local optimization.

Production was decentralized and focused on the creation of niche products for highly specialized markets.

But it is also propelling British politics into a new and unfamiliar decentralized political system.

Many values are important for local communities and tend to be favoured under decentralized systems.

Keynes emphasized the flimsiness of the expectations on which economic activity in decentralized markets is based.

UNDP was a bigger and more decentralized body than UNIDO, and required more time to act.

Decentralized provision of sanitation services is standard practice in many countries and a goal in others.

At the time of his ascension to power, Bosnia was already decentralized by the semi independent nobility.

Many providers of international assistance for development had delegated decision making on funding to the decentralized level.

Still others have moved to a decentralized structure, but only within a clearly specified central strategic framework.

(f) PeopleSoft will be used as the sole ERP system, adapted for flexibility and decentralized data processing.

The decentralized framework of designated officials and security management teams in the field was one of the operational strengths of the system, which was being extended by the appointment of designated officials at duty stations where the threat to the Organization might previously have been less obvious.

From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

UNOPS reorganized its client service and procurement operations and decentralized staff out of New York into regional structures.

Others have chosen a decentralized model, allowing each ministry or agency to tailor its systems to some extent.

The decentralized government is composed of field services based in the seven departments and the greater Niamey area.

(f) A battalion strength decentralized force reserve, headquartered in Kadugli, with companies garrisoned in Juba, Malakal and Wau.

Similarly, monitoring of related programmes should be decentralized to include feedback from land users and participatory poverty assessment.

These include human resource management, financial management, meeting management, IT management, and project management.

Unions have historically been especially important since they engage in decentralized wage bargaining that tie wages to firms productivity.

Decentralized policy and growing externalities will result in partial de globalization, especially in macroeconomic configurations, finance, and capital accounts.

It officially belongs to both, but is governed by neither, and functions under a decentralized system of local government.