Sentences with phrase «traditional community management»

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Expanse, an alternative public chain of Ethereum has revealed that it is launching a decentralized autonomous organization, removing traditional management and thereby putting all major project decisions into the hands of its community.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office regularly attends community forums, events and committees within the catchments and we are continuing to forge local partnerships that allow community groups, including Aboriginal Traditional Owners, to help shape the regional planning and management of environmental water delivery over the long term.

For over thirty five years, the Group's community - based resource management program has sought to preserve and expand the Island's traditional shellfisheries.

Rapid range shifts, however, will fundamentally reorganize marine communities, resulting in fisheries conflicts across borders and challenges to traditional management approaches.

As the traditional software application market migrates from the desktop to the enterprise and mobile, end user license management becomes a must - have design issue for software development servicing the eLearning community.

As they explored new learning formats, the GTD team's attention shifted from traditional courses and programs pushed to employees solely via the learning management system (less important in any high - performing learning organization), to more employee - driven solutions such as mobile performance support, massive open online courses (MOOCs), on - demand micro-learning, and online communities.

In any event, if TNR were truly five times as costly as Akron's roundup, one would expect communities all over the country to stick to «traditional» methods of feral cat management.

While evidence of TNR's effectiveness continues to mount, the case for the «traditional» approach to community cat management (i.e., complaint - driven impoundment typically resulting in death) grows increasingly indefensible.

«Tribes and First Nations across North America pride themselves on supporting their communities with responsible forest management that is based on their cultural values and traditional practices.

Management and administration will be conducted largely at a local level through traditional community leaders.

Between training sessions with us, they would return to their villages, with specific tasks: To teach village members about the regulations that applied to the timber companies; to map their communities» traditional land use and boundaries; to learn about their village's indigenous knowledge and management of wildlife; to help organize a system for monitoring the timber companies; to develop a series of wildlife management scenarios acceptable to their communities; etc..

The report investigated eight themes it deemed critical to sustainable agriculture; bioenergy, biotechnology, climate change, human health; natural resource management; trade and markets; traditional and local knowledge and community - based innovation; and women in agriculture.

As eDiscovery and litigation readiness become more important to the records management community, ARMA has engaged XDD due to the company's commitment to information governance consulting in addition to traditional eDiscovery service areas.

It's based on existing standards that were designed before the connected community era, that limits features, fidelity and ease - of - use,» explains Mark Ely, VP of Product Management at Roku, of traditional home entertainment hardware.

Even more interestingly, community management is somewhat disrupting traditional notions of how business organizations should operate.

Broad base of experience: TV / Internet / print journalism, new media development, product management, promotional campaign development from a traditional and community marketing POV, as well as acquisition.

This local community has been successful in combining traditional and contemporary land management techniques resulting in increased employment outcomes and self esteem in the community, and has assisted in the control of illnesses such as diabetes.

This would allow traditional owners to build upon existing governance structures in the traditional owner group, establish links with non-traditional owner members of the community and capitalise on the skills base of people already experienced in management and governance.

The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development states «Indigenous people and their communities... have a vital role in environmental management and development because of their knowledge and traditional practices.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

This has been a major issue in Australia where the foisting of a variety of «community» council structures on settlements and missions in Australia from the late 1960's on in the name of «self - management» or «self - determination» contributed to undermining traditional authority structures, had little credibility in the eyes of community members, and may well have contributed to the social dysfunction that has developed in many communities over the past 20 to 30 years - in Harvard Project terms, there was a monumental lack of cultural fit.

It provides the community with a source of food and nutrition, is important for ceremonial occasions, and is needed for barter and exchange.9 It provides Indigenous communities with an invaluable component of their cultural lifestyle and allows them to fulfil their traditional responsibilities related to kinship and land management.10 Through control of fisheries, Indigenous people can manage who can fish, where to fish, which fish, and how many fish can be taken at different times of the year.11

This local community — South Australian Government partnership has been successful in combining traditional and contemporary land management techniques resulting in increased employment outcomes and self esteem in the community, and has assisted in the control of diabetes.4

Indigenous people and their communities... have a vital role in environmental management and development because of their knowledge and traditional practices.

This approach to Indigenous rights was also reflected in the 1987 Rio Declaration, which recognises the vital role of Indigenous communities knowledge and traditional practices in environmental management, and the 1992 Agenda 21, which promotes the development of national policy approaches to Indigenous participation in land and resource management and caring for country.

The Rio Declaration recognises the vital role of Indigenous communities» knowledge and traditional practices in environmental management.

(85) The Department formally recognises that Victorian Indigenous communities, as the traditional custodians of Victoria's land and waters, have a fundamental management role in Victoria's natural resources.