Local-level gender-sensitive interventions are often delayed or blocked by lack of political will and resources.
Local-level voting for city and county posts would be the ideal solution, so that residents could balance the costs and benefits of regulation.
However, it remains true the editors of major electronic and print media owe their jobs -- and promotion prospects -- to central and local-level propaganda departments.
The election, for local-level officials, will be a test of the strength of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political bloc as well as the ability of security forces to keep the country safe.
Or will the reform-minded, popularly elected local- and republic-level governments have discretion over their resources (including oil, gas, gold and diamonds) and revenues?
An editor at a leading party journal warned in remarks published this month by an official magazine, China Reform, that unless China introduced more democracy at the local-government level to address growing demands for change among intellectuals, there could be a revolution.
And speaking as a straight Eagle Scout, discrimination -- whether it's at the national or local level -- sends a harmful message to all young people.
Leeds Building Society has recruited a local retired A-level English teacher to give tuition designed to improve the standard of internal reports.
But the governors at the local level -- Governors Christie, Cuomo, and Malloy -- they are working around the clock, their teams are working around the clock.
On the local level -- say you're reporting on a controversial resident's blog about his or her fight with a city over an issue -- find the blog to take quotes from instead of lifting them from local news articles.
What we may be seeing is a recognition that the unions have to take care of themselves first and foremost and that the battleground to accomplish that objective is at the state and local level -not in the halls of Congress or even the White House.
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Better coordination between local groups on a state-wide level, more engagement with local and regional media and a return to a focus on fiscal issues will help drive better perceptions and greater electoral impact over time.
By aligning work force training with the needs of the anchors, the Midtown Project has placed 50 local residents in entry-level jobs.
They're furious that states might spoil the deals they cut with the White House and frantic for new revenue, which will only flow with the subsidies. (Note that health industry stocks rallied on President Obama's re-election.) They're also generally more powerful at the local level and favor state-run exchanges as easier to manipulate.
How can a legislative body--at the local, state, federal or international level--have any chance of passing workable legislation when single legislators hold veto power?
This requires a multi-level approach integrating responsive local government, improved local delivery, and national level process development.
At the local level, water-user associations responsible for the management and maintenance of irrigation canals have been set up with foreign help.
Because I think it's trying to tell me something about the direction politics is moving in - at a local level at least.
The lightly trained Afghan Local Police, a village-level force backed by U.S. troops and overseen by the Ministry of the Interior, is tasked with helping bring security to remote areas.
Even in states where every local cop attends the same state-level academy, the state patrol almost always has their own.
As part of its implementation of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration moved late last year to make the huge Medicare claims database more broadly available to the public by allowing some community groups focused on improving health care at the local level to obtain doctor-specific data.
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The wave of foreclosures has been manifesting at these more local levels even while national-level data reflects a recovery.
Thugs hired at 100 yuan a day by the local government will be replaced by state-level public security officers fully equipped with high-tech monitoring cameras and recorders.
But it does not want cheques to be included in the regulation, arguing that these are an inefficient payment mechanism that should be discouraged even at local, let alone cross-border, level.
While the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has drawn up a list of the conditions for which it is permissible to screen, decisions as to whether to fund this on the NHS are made on a case-by-case basis at a local level.
If Spain tips into crisis in the next few months, the odds are that it will be because of something nasty happening to balance sheets at the local level which shocks the markets - in Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, that is the 'known unknown' that makes everyone nervous.
Led by two English-speaking hosts, one foreign and one local to provide different perspectives, guests convene in the ground-level lounge and bar where they enjoy a Malabeca cocktail (malbec, pisco and apple juice) and mingle with the other diners.
NextDoor is a new start-up that brings private social networks to the neighborhood level so that people can share relevant hyper-local information.
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Companies need to realize that local officials saying something is OK and ministry-level officials giving the green light are not the same thing.
Xie Yuan, director of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs at the CPAFFC, told the China Daily that improving sub-national level economic cooperation and local employment would be the main topics among the governors.
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