The increased participation of women at the decision making level is essential to the empowerment of women.

1. Increasing the participation of women in the

Such councils were new and designed to enable national minorities to participate in the decision making process.

Pursuing this option would require that the decision making process be legitimate.

Women must be integrated into decision making and mainstream economic activities.

The decision making process in the Council is subject to the assent of its five permanent members.

That is why humanitarian considerations must be incorporated at every step of the decision making process.

It also involved bringing decision making closer to the people, especially those who are excluded.

Nor were they given a voice in the process of decision making on matters which directly concerned them.

the importance of capacities as well as decision making power and accountability at the local level the strong guiding provisions at the federal and cantonal level and the subsidiarity principle

Emphasis was laid on the need to heighten democratization in the decision making of international organizations.

(a) Full participation in decision making by those most affected by the development process

Decision making

The parochial interests of those 11 countries could complicate the Council's decision making process.

In this way transparency and accountability were built in at all levels of the decision making process.

Informed debate will facilitate enlightened policy making, correct prioritization of goals and induce customization of approach.

(d) Bottom up approach to include communities in the decision making process

A double layer of decision making would only cause an already ponderous organization to seize up.

As the military and Houthi fighters grab the limelight, Yemen's people have no voice in the decision making process.

The European Union fully recognizes the critical contribution that young people can make to decision making.

Desktop delivery of all essential information will facilitate the effective decision making process in field operations.

Age appropriate participation in decision making will be promoted through focus area 5.

Their access to education, employment and health services must be ensured, as well as their inclusion in the decision making process.

A wide range of constitutional and political measures is used around the world to provide access for minorities to decision making.

Long marginalized in world decision making, our countries of the South continue to suffer the consequences of our economic fragility.

In this way, the decision making process of the Council would take place in a healthy, transparent and accessible environment.

This would include promoting the development of databases and disseminating knowledge and information and increasing the participation of the population in the decision making process.

(b) Ad hoc expert groups two meetings on women in international decision making and education for peace.

C. Participation in decision making

Women at the decision making level

Equal participation in decision making

3. Decision making and amendment procedures

As long as governments do not encroach excessively on central bank decision making, this development will restore balance in policymaking and support policy coordination, particularly in times of stress.

The agenda also aims to promote grass roots participation in political decision making on the basis of a solid democratic choice.

In State policy making positions, i.e., at the decision making level, women hold 11.1 of those positions.

We see this as a necessary process that will help the economic, social and cultural development of all communities, strengthen local initiative and bring all the communities closer to the decision making process.

The early writings addressed individual freedom and liberty, attacked the unilateral decision making process of the political establishment in Syria and advanced pluralism.

Representatives of persons belonging to minorities should be involved already from the initial stages of decision making.

It includes social and economic dimensions of development, emphasizing poverty reduction and integrating environment and development in decision making.

The IFF agreed that protected areas should be established within a landscape continuum' where the conservation of biological diversity, environmental services and landscape values are accorded priority in the wider context of other forest management and land use practices in surrounding areas.

Those results showed that the involvement of women in the decision making process at both local and national levels had improved significantly.

In its efforts to strengthen democracy, the Government was seeking to ensure increased citizen participation in decision making.

But only a significant minority was expected to influence directly the decision making process for establishing national negotiating strategies.

In contrast, in some countries decentralization of the decision making process has led to the strengthening of the power of local elites.

My Government is committed to sound environmental management and protection as an integral part of our decision making process.