Sentences with phrase «regional body»

This page will become the landing page for this new regional body.

However, budget allocations were a powerful way to motivate different regional bodies to work more closely together.

At this stage it seems that the primary role of all of the proposed regional bodies is to connect local and regional needs to all levels of government through advocacy.

While it may be advantageous in the initial stages for agreements to have the maximum flexibility by not being tied to legislative requirements, in the longer term there should be a more secure basis for the operation of regional bodies.

«The Igbo from all over the country and in the Diaspora should be advised to converge in their region in the South - East for a plebiscite to be organized and conducted by the United Nations and other regional bodies for them to categorically to decide between remaining part of Nigeria or having their separate country.

I believe that the federal government in particular has been passive on this issue — they have too easily sat back and thrust responsibility for getting regional bodies in place back to indigenous communities.

In the last decade we have earned several awards from national or regional bodies for academic program quality, including the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education given by the American Council for State Colleges and Universities.

In a «conciliar fellowship» every national or regional body represented would be a unified and inclusive expression of the church «in each place.»

But ministers are adamant that the new Regional Growth Fund, a pot of # 1.4 billion, will redress the balance and make local planning more accountable than what they argue are remote regional bodies.

Local disputes between regional bodies continued to weaken the confidence of Whitehall officials during this process.

Gambian controversial president, Yahya Jammeh, has accused West African regional body, ECOWAS, of declaring war against his country for refusal to step down at the end of his mandate this month.

NARPO also believe that a national pay body is more cost effective than regional bodies even if some element of regional pay is being considered.

Electoral observers from regional body ECOWAS, the African Union, the European Union and the United States will all oversee the process.

They underwent comprehensive assessments of physical activity patterns using a SenseWear armband, of metabolic health using internationally accepted criteria, regional body composition using magnetic resonance imaging and physical fitness testing.

The historic name for North - East England is Northumbria and whilst a few regional bodies still use this name, it is rarely used in everyday conversation.

The election was monitored by numerous international missions representing over 170 countries, and regional bodies such as the OAS and UNASUR supported the result, while encouraging a dialogue between the government and opposition to prevent any further post-election violence, which had claimed seven lives in the days following the contested poll.

The Commission recommended empowering regional bodies to pursue integrated environmental, social and economic outcomes.

Part of the International program, Erika's work focuses on climate change, at international negotiations and with U.N. Environment Programme and regional bodies like the Arctic Council to reduce emissions of atmospheric pollutants.

It is intended that the Assembly shall be recognised as the peak Indigenous regional body and the primary point of Indigenous community coordination and input, while the Community Working Parties shall be the primary points of Indigenous contact at the community level.

IOI is engaged in collaboration, cooperation and partnership with the international ocean community at several levels: through the international United Nations systems, regional groupings such as the European Union and other regional bodies, NGOs, IGOs, academia and institutions of learning; international organisations and many others across a broad spectrum of activities relating to ocean governance.

It is possible the process will highlight pre-existing tensions among the remaining EU members — between those states that believe in moving toward a more deeply integrated, federalist structure, and those largely opposed to further transfers of power from national to regional bodies, preferring to maintain the status quo — and in doing so hasten the move to a so - called «two - speed» EU.

On Saturday, the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, the regional body of the denomination, released a statement saying the church policy was «Null and Void,» because the vote was not held in accordance with proper parliamentary procedure.

They can no longer afford to ignore the fact that local churches and regional bodies are upstaging them by sending teams to build churches in the former Soviet Union and volunteers to teach English and evangelize in China and Cuba.

We also welcome the involvement of government agencies, regional bodies and industry associations to promote premium Australian products and services in China and host their functions and events.

The fields for both the Champions League and Europa League are now complete, though UEFA will still decide on whether to grant licenses to teams from Kosovo, who joined the regional body earlier this month.

Our excellent regional minister who acted as a catalyst and provided a link between business leaders, local and regional bodies and central government has also gone.

The third issue concerns devolving powers to some regional bodies.

They also found that central Government departments were not in agreement about which functions should be handed to regional bodies.

Such propaganda is banned on the federal level and we as a regional body are only imposing sanctions.»

David Anderson: ECOWAS — West Africa's regional body — is considering an intervention, and increasingly Mali's neighbours are becoming concerned that the disorder will spill over the borders.

John Azumah, a Ghanaian who works at the Finance Department of the ECOWAS Parliament, has been appointed Secretary General of the regional body.

Zuma who is the chair of the regional body SADC said the body stands ready to assist in the political impasse currently gripping the country.

Foreign observers include representatives from the Carter Centre, the EU and the regional body, Ecowas.

The Acting President expressed the hope that the spirit of ECOWAS, which is the spirit of brotherhood would be helpful in addressing some of the issues confronting the regional body.

The Acting President added that the Buhari administration was pleased that President Gnassingbe visited Nigeria almost immediately after his election to lead the regional body, assuring him that Nigeria will continue to play an active role in ECOWAS.

During the visit, President Gnassingbe highlighted a number of ECOWAS issues and challenges, including the European Partnership Agreement, being discussed by the regional body.

Nancy Sutley, who chairs the task force and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said at a press conference yesterday that all the regional bodies should have the planning process in place within 5 years.

As the first President of the regional body, we are soon to appoint our own CEO and a Director of Marketing to move our marketing plans forward with the one and only aim of making the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands a strong and known tourism destination.

Other regional bodies are discussing similar issues, such as the Arab CIT Organization.

CCW meetings are also open to international and UN agencies, the ICRC, regional bodies, and registered non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

Many of the 117 states party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) are expected to attend the four - day meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» in addition to representatives from international and UN agencies, the ICRC, regional bodies, and registered non-governmental organizations.

Would it be, for instance, regional bodies, state - wide forums or a panel of eminent Indigenous elders?