At the country level the United Nations should demonstrate flexibility in accordance with local needs and as agreed by the local authorities.

Many Leagues around the country made presentations to members about the UN at the local level.

Local level

Service (Other level) LL, Local level.

GS LL General Service (Local level)

Abbreviations RB, regular budget GS, General Service PL, Principal level OL, Other level XB, extrabudgetary LL, Local level.

Local representation There has been an increasing focus on women s representation at a local level.

Democracy must spread from the local level to the regional level, and from the regional level to the State.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary LL, Local level.

The effectiveness of political involvement at the local level

Abbreviations RB, regular budget LL, Local level FS, Field Service.

(a) Accelerated implementation at country level

OHCHR activities at the country level

Since local authorities played a key role in promoting innovative community oriented local governance, UN HABITAT promoted crime prevention at the local level.

Regulations at the local level tend to be stricter than those at the federal or state level.

Among the issues discussed were identification of strategies and methodologies for enhancing collaboration and coordination between local communities and national level actors and scientists preparation and implementation of local level synergistic projects capacity building needs, and provision of incentives for synergistic implementation at the local level.

Much innovation occurs at the local level, as major cities develop links with industry to reduce local emissions.

More than that, the divisions are reproduced at the local level.

Governments should consider gender quotas at the local level of politics.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary GS, General Service LL, Local level NO, National Officer PL, Principal level

Local government authorities are responsible for implementing policy for public education and state funded schools at a local level.

The United Nations at the country level

Implementation and monitoring at the country level

Country level capacity crucial for gender mainstreaming.

It was suggested that country visits by special procedures should be seen as occasions to promote inter agency cooperation and increase public awareness of their work at the local level.

Abbreviations used in the organizational structure charts GS General Service LL Local level OL Other level PL Principal level RB regular budget XB extrabudgetary.

Abbreviations FS Field Service GS OL General Service (Other level) NO National Officer GS LL General Service (Local level).

Linkages between the country programme and the regional programme is weak and there is relatively little follow up at the country level to ensure that advocacy at the regional level is transformed into action at the country level.

Retailers could exercise their power in setting prices at the local level.

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Country level capacity of the United Nations system

This requires reliable data at the country level

At the country level, there was increased programming with other United Nations organizations, particularly in the area of HIV AIDS, but more needed to be done at the municipal and local levels.

Zakat funds collected by government are distributed largely to poor women, widows etc. through local Zakat committees which have been established all over the country on a locality, village and ward level.

At the local level, Conservatives and Liberals tend to be at daggers drawn.

It also analyses, selects and disseminates best practices developed at the local level.

Transparent planning and priority setting should also take place at the local level.

District level organizations should be active facilitators of decentralization at the local level, while not hijacking the process from the locals.

Government response to the sustainability of tourism is often stronger at a regional or local level than at a national level.

C. Technical assistance and cooperation at the country level

United Nations gender thematic groups at the country level

Women leaders at the local level helped to ensure that gender questions were mainstreamed into Government policy. A national summit had recently been held, and had been attended by 200 women legislators and leaders from around the country, with a view to strategizing on gender mainstreaming, local legislation and women's participation and representation in local governance.

This comes in addition to many other financial burdens exacted at the local level.

Because on a local level as much as we scream and yell, nothing happens.

Senior politicians at the Regional level nominated their clients to the local government positions.