They were meant to further common understanding about the key issues of the workshop and to facilitate communication among participants.

Enhancement of participation by all individuals, peoples and nations in local, national and international decision making processes.

(h) Establish and strengthen appropriate local mechanisms for facilitating broad participation by major groups in the national dialogue and by community groups in decision making at the local level and

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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

Improving executive level decision making

It served as the basis for community consultation.

(h) The right to equitable participation of all, without any discrimination, in domestic and global decision making

(h) The right to equitable participation of all, without any discrimination, in domestic and global decision making

(h) The right to equitable participation of all, without any discrimination, in domestic as well as global decision making

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

But it's not limited to the local.

Certain revenues are best collected locally.

Women are better represented in local level union leadership positions rather than at the national level.

One of the areas where Tonga needs to make more progress is in the participation of women in decision making, both at the local and national levels.

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

Decision making

However, the need for commitment at the national level and empowerment at the local level was underscored.

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

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

Other measures to strengthen the embargo have also been taken at the national, as well as at the local, level.

The guidelines can be used to analyse the situation of women and men on national as well as local level.

So I think that is a very critical thing.. women, and at that local level, keeping government open at that local level.

Domestic level cases may come from various characteristics of the domestic system.

Gender mainstreaming is emphasized in decision making and project implementation at the household, community and national levels.

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

We are convinced that this problem cannot be effectively addressed at the local level alone or by local thinking alone.

In discharging their responsibilities, it is essential for them to address not merely questions of domestic implementation but also the reasons why the situation was not corrected at the domestic level.

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

(e) Strengthening of human rights activities at the local and provincial levels.

And as you know that on the local level the institutional capacity somehow is not existing.

And what resource is needed, given the fact that there is no institutions on the local level?

However, contrary to stagnation at the national level, the numbers of women in decision making positions at the local level are gradually increasing, often thanks to the introduction of quota systems, as in the new democracies in Africa, and to increased decentralization, particularly in Latin America.

This policy changed in the end of the 20th century local support for the merger is now a large part of the decision making process.

It was sometimes part of the ordinary law of the land, as in the case of habeas corpus in England, and sometimes part of a constitutional settlement, as in the case of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in France.

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

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

The assistance operation was effectively coordinated at the central level in Kigali and at the local level in Butare.

I think a regional level has a far greater propensity to secede than a local level.

While there was a larger percentage of women in sub ministerial level decision making posts, again the proportion was lower in those dealing with the economy.

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

In this context, and subject to extra funding's being secured, the LADA project FAO could work with additional countries which may be interested in using the LADA methodological framework and refining the results of the global study.

C. Participation in decision making

Women at the decision making level

Equal participation in decision making