Although the storm devastated coastal communities, authorities were crediting the trees with sapping it of some of its strength.
Under a national immigration policy called Secure Communities, authorities could deport undocumented people who were arrested for petty crimes.
Inadequate funding is a major barrier to a decent education for children with special needs in rural communities, authorities in Soroti have said.
He returned to Malaysia repeatedly between 2006 and 2014, and started to groom children by posing as a practicing Christian and taking up voluntary English teaching posts to gain the trust of communities, authorities said.
At best, mitigation is negotiated with all stakeholders, communities, authorities, and scientists in participatory transdisciplinary processes (Schelling 2008; Zinsstag 2007).
Research has also explored processes of community engagement within the wind farm decision-making process, and the crucial role of trust between communities, authorities, and developers.
Thus what might seem to us as a movement for greater individual freedom became an opportunity for the as sertion of community authority.
By the 1970s, villagers had resigned themselves to their new home, and the Lajamanu Council had been set up as a self-governing community authority, the first in the Northern Territory.
A representative of the local government ministry reveals that community management of service provision as demonstrated by the YES project, is the highest level of community participation, and gives the community authority and control over operation, management and/or maintenance services benefiting its members.
Interventions that ignore the social credibility they require, or which misinterpret the links between community authority and the control of resources, risk failing, or even undermining their ongoing work.
In Ghana, there is invariably a role for those recognized as community authorities, such as tribal elders or village headmen; the degree to which these community authority figures are involved is both sensitive and critical to the acceptance and sustainability of CLW activities.
