The main objectives of decentralization have been to provide flexibility to regional governments, allowing them to manage their own affairs as part of the democratization process.

Underinvesting in Resilience

The existing paradigm serves to rigidify decision making at a time when extraordinary flexibility and rapid change are essential.

Southern Resilience

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It is easy to imagine situations in which flexibility can be increased by curtailing individual rights and abandoning pre established decision making rules.

What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

Low debt and high liquidity should be valued for avoidance of cash flow distress, ensuring greater flexibility in adjusting asset allocation, and creating opportunities in the aftermath of a crisis.

All Member States should seize the opportunity to contribute to the reform process and should show maximum flexibility in order to achieve an outcome that is cohesive, lasting and in the interest of the Organization as a whole.

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.

For starters, making a system very resilient in one way can cause it to lose resilience in other ways.

I should like to conclude my remarks on the proposed programme of work and timetable by reminding delegations of the need to maintain the requisite degree of flexibility in the process of implementing the programme and timetable.

While the GATS request offer process naturally builds upon bargaining and exchange processes, flexibility should be maintained for developing countries.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Canada has shown this in its approaches.

In Italy, greater employment flexibility was introduced by the Prodi government in 1997, and further strengthened under the so called Biagi Law of 2003.

The difference between the two valuations is the value of flexibility inherent in the project.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

Yet, in the end, credibility collapsed because of the lack of flexibility.

Her delegation appreciated the flexibility shown by the delegation of Japan.

A grand coalition could show greater flexibility in addressing the euro crisis, but less on questions of foreign and security policy.

This is not something that it possesses in abundance.

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

Building and maintaining resilience requires probing its boundaries.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

Systems and procedures are designed for flexibility, rapid response and functionality.

But some countries show strong resilience in the face of pervasive violence and volatility.

He also hinted at more flexibility in negotiations with the United States.

There is thus a surprising resilience in the European project.

CANBERRA Resilience, like love, is difficult to define.

For our part, Botswana is prepared to be flexible in negotiations conducted in good faith.

With more flexible population control, there is plenty of room for other forms of association.

Under the banner of simplification, the how is gravitating towards outsourcing most of the implementation to agencies that are to be endowed, one hopes, with greater flexibility to fulfill their specific missions.

Adaptive governance (flexible, distributive, and learning based).

Resilience should not be confused with resistance to change.

We believe that that proposal shows a much more flexible approach.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Some of the proposals link the depth of the cut to be made by developing countries to options for developing countries to use other flexibilities, for example, the deeper the cut, the greater the flexibility in binding coverage and levels.