We support the call for placing the Millennium Development Goals at the core of national development strategies tailored to local realities.

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Local development projects in oil production areas should apply a participative approach involving major stakeholders civil society, State and local authorities, youth movements and local private companies to identifying needs and defining implementation strategies.

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That is needed as a basis for important activities, including the development of economic strategies and the reform of local self government.

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Involvement of the poor, particularly the rural poor, women and youth in the development of environmentally sound strategies for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals at the local and community levels should be ensured, as a central component of the success of such strategies.

(b) Developing national sustainable development strategies, including nationally owned poverty reduction strategies and sectoral policies and strategies

The effective participation of the private sector, academia and local community based organizations in the development of integrated development policy would ensure the effective implementation and wide acceptance of strategies and measures.

Exchanging Weapons for Development in Cambodia An Assessment of Different Weapon Collection Strategies Assessed by Local People, by Geofrey Mugumya, 2004, United Nations publication, Sales No.

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National development strategies were also crucial.

Those strategies have to be well designed and correspond to local realities.

Strategies to address that scourge should be local, regional and global in scope.

Strategies for development out of crisis conditions

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised about the role of incentives and the need to align positive corporate contributions with national development strategies in the interest of safeguarding the development opportunities of the local economy.

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The research and development agenda focused on the key thematic issues in local development local economic development, public expenditure management, local service delivery, and natural resource management.

It was underlined that the internationally agreed development goals should form essential elements of national development strategies including poverty reduction strategies, where they exist.

Urges Member States, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and community leaders to strengthen and or, where relevant, to contribute to the development of national, local and regional crime prevention strategies

In view of the interactions between desertification control and poverty reduction, it appears essential to ensure the involvement of local communities in the preparation and implementation of national development strategies.

Support will also be given to enhance the competence of national and local authorities in formulating and implementing coherent sectoral and local strategies.

Acknowledging the value of traditional knowledge, the LEG developed a database of local coping strategies.

Aid should be linked to the local needs identified in countries' national strategies and to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, not to the interests of suppliers in donor countries.

(a) Developing, where appropriate, comprehensive armed violence prevention programmes integrated into national development strategies, including poverty reduction strategies

The last line should read effective and balanced development of crime prevention policies and strategies instead of effective and balanced development strategies and crime prevention policies .

They have to develop more effective strategies in assessing local needs, allocating recourses and defining priorities.

(a) Incorporate gender perspectives into national development strategies for the implementation of internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, through, inter alia, fully utilizing existing gender equality policies and strategies

These services and centres work through intermediaries, such as the media and local partners, to adapt global communications strategies for regional, national and local audiences.

It is important that poverty reduction strategies and national sustainable development strategies processes remain participatory and nationally owned, with external development partners providing technical and financial support.

Assistance to countries in preparing national statistical development strategies and getting support for these strategies from their own Governments

Strengthening statistical capacity is therefore essential to supporting the design, monitoring and evaluation of national development plans, including poverty reduction strategies, sector strategies, and the Millennium Development Goals.

Efforts to portray local cultures as unchanging often reflect reactionary political strategies rather than descriptions of reality.

National sustainable development strategies could provide the policy framework for integrated planning of water, sanitation and human settlements, but ultimately the approach would have to be adopted and implemented at the local level.

Such initiatives should be coordinated with related development strategies and goals.

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4. Also urges the adoption of comprehensive approaches to human resources development in designing and implementing development strategies at the national, subregional, regional and international levels and the sharing of best practices, while recognizing the role that local knowledge systems could play

These strategies should be flexible so as to respond to changing conditions and various regional and local situations.

Need to integrate chemicals management into national planning and sustainable development strategies

Moreover, the conditions attached to aid often conflicted with domestic development strategies.

Accordingly, strategies for social development necessarily have to address the crime problem.

We also believe that involving local people in the elaboration and implementation of post conflict strategies at an early stage is decisive in making such strategies more acceptable, viable and sustainable.

In addition, the Local Governance Unit was rebranded' as UNCDF Local Development. Projecting a focus on local development allows UNCDF to better reflect its comprehensive support through the local governance approach to local development, by piloting activities with local governments, ensuring alignment of these activities with sectoral and other forms of deconcentration, and, to supportinging national decentralization policies and regulatory frameworks.

The right to development and practical strategies for the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly goal 8

Topics for other papers to be produced include exploring the relationship between national strategies for the development of statistics and the poverty reduction strategy papers and between national strategies for the development of statistics and the Millennium Development Goals.