coordinating 1.3. Democratising development, empowering and redistributing 1.4. Leading and learning 2. Developmental outcomes of local government 2.1. Provision of household infrastructure and services 2.2. Creation of liveable, integrated cities, towns and rural areas 2.3. Local economic development 2.3.1. Reviewing existing policies and procedures to enhance employment and investment 2.3.2. Provision of special economic services 3. Tools and approaches for developmental local
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2016 Cynthia Januale Community can be defined in many ways. According to Meriam Webster (n.d), there are 12 different ways that community can be defined. Community can best be defined as “a group of people who live in the same area (such as a city, town, or neighborhood)” ("Community," n.d). To most people, community is the area and people that surround the place they live and/or work. Community health is defined by Stanhope and Lancaster (2014) as “the meeting of collective needs through identification
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Research proposal Title: The role of cobblestone on youth unemployment reduction in Adigrat city by -Amanuel Teklu Aregawi teklu Dawit Hagos Berihu Gebremeskel Adigrat UniversityCollege of Business and Economics Department of Management/ MBA 1.INTRODUCTION Cobblestones are small, chiseled rectangular stones formerly used to cover road surfaces ,typically either set in sand or similar selected material, or are bound together with mortar. Paving with cobblestones allows a road to
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Elizabeth Kiem Resilient Cities What makes a city resilient? When the word resilience comes to mind I think of ones ability to bounce back. In the case of matching resilient up with a city I wasn’t quite sure what exactly goes into a city being qualified to earn that adjective. After navigating around the Building Resilient Regions Website and viewing what they do and how they do it, I found myself looking at their resilience capacity index. This index ranks over 300 U.S. cities on how it recovers from
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DRAFT: The Importance of Urban Greenspaces Joe Green Strayer University July 1, 2015 URBAN GREENSPACES 2 Draft: The Importance of Urban Greenspaces My community and I have benefited from urban greenspaces in various ways. Interfacing with nature via greenspaces is significant to me personally for several reasons. I chose to write about urban greenspaces because parks and forests were a very important aspect of my childhood, I have observed how the disparity of greenspaces
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Any agency is in an unenviable position when it starts working at the village level. The first problem is whether it fits into a set pattern: Is it pro-government? Is it a scheme started by the rural rich? Who sponsors the scheme? Who provides financial support? Which political party does it support? The first years are spent answering these questions. Depending on how convincing the answers are and depending on how aligned the project and its workers are to parties, ideologies, personalities
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Five ICT Essentials for Smart Cities A Whitepaper for Business Executive Summary More than half of the population of the Earth now live in urban areas (United Nations, 2012). Modern cities face many challenges and opportunities because of this. The challenges range from providing a good quality of life for citizens to ensuring appropriate socio-economic development year on year, while the opportunities can be seen in businesses becoming more efficient and innovative, to the reduction of
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choices: living in city or in country, which one will you choose? I think the most important decision to a happy life is where you choose to spend the rest of your life and how you want to live. In the country, you can have as many pets as you want, and you can play your music as loud as you want without the neighbors complaining. The country life is quiet and peace, country living look like a nice dream: hearing natural music, seeing sights, and planting trees.. However, big city life is more appealing
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First, we will discuss how the Arizona Constitution affects the counties. The counties of Arizona have to major roles they preform. The first one is by being the administrative arms for the state government. The second one is by being that the cities provide city type services for those who do not live in the boundaries of the municipalities. The counties are bounded by Dillon's Rule, which only allows the county to hold powers given to them from the state and the constitution. In 1992 the state constitution
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The majority of the population prefers living in a big city because of the great advantages that it provides. The big cities are becoming more and more inhabited. There are several advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city. First, most people prefer living in a big city because is a place where the economy is constantly growing, and it is significantly easier to find a good job. Good companies take place in a big city, and these companies provided many jobs with good wages. For example
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