We can empower locally and scale quickly" @ChrisSandbox . "Democratizing processes and increasing transparency + peer-to-peer accountability is happening more and more" @ChrisSandbox .
At the same time, we are moving away from our current centralized structure, empowering local boards to become independent, locally owned and operated entities.
"It's all well and good saying you're empowering people locally, but if they don't have the local support to do some quite radical things, they're going to stick with the status quo," Winstanley adds.
"I'm fairly confident we can do it but we have to empower people locally to do that," he said.
Though planned and directed from the centre, almost all the social programmes introduced by the government have sought to "empower" people locally to decide for themselves how to implement them.
"If you want to be in the emerging markets and be successful, you have to be locally empowered," said Ajay Banga, who oversees Citigroup's operations in Asia.
The independent directors, appointed by local authorities on a fixed-term five-year contract from a short-list approved by the education department, would be empowered to intervene locally in all state schools, including free schools, faith schools and academies.
2. Sharing success stories of locally empowered citizens making a difference.
At the Well Leadership Academy seeks to empower young women locally to become effective leaders globally.
Other changes in CVE strategy are required, and an important one is noted in the report: the need to "empower and amplify locally credible voices that can change the perception of violent extremist groups and their ideology".
