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Community
Action 2015
Community
Action 2015 is a strategic cross-cutting platform to develop local
level capacity to achieve the
Millennium
Development Goals.
The initiative supports and highlights innovative community level
good practice across sectors, integrating efforts from a variety
of stakeholders and partners to provide capacity development tools
to local level actors.
Community Action 2015 targets key drivers of sustainable
development - community actors - and works to identify
their successes while leveraging partnerships and
improved organizational and technical capacity to
increase scale and impact.
The
initiative works closely to incorporate and link
existing capacity development programs to support good
practices, local leadership, and stronger synergies
between policy-level and ground-up initiatives to
achieve the MDGs.
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Angola
study recommends shifting more power to local level
Giving local communities more power, such as electing
local officials and managing public
services, is a priority for Angola, and a report
recently published by UNDP makes
wide-ranging recommendations on steps to promote such
decentralization.
As the country recovers from decades of civil war,
which ended in a 2002 peace accord,
the Government has taken some steps towards transferring
power to localities, including
identification of revenues assigned to local
administration.
But 79 per cent of local administrative staff
actually work for provincial administrations,
19 per cent for municipal administrations and a mere 1
per cent for community
administrations.
There is an "enormous need" for local level
personnel to provide basic services and promote development in areas such as agriculture,
commerce, electricity, water, transportation and housing, the study says.
