Local development projects focus on animal husbandry.
ADRA, who has been working on long-term local development projects since 2008, now has three response and recovery projects approved with the assistance of various overseas donors.
The 30-year-old charity offered free legal advice for the poor, backed small local development projects and aided women, Reuters reported.
Disregarding Chiarelli's explicit guidance, Steele and his staff dramatically cut spending on local development projects that didn't directly relate to security.
About 20 percent of the shares are supposed to go to community trust funds, which in theory will pay for local development projects, and company employees.
My uncle, a rural villager, supports Thaksin because he distributed one million baht ($25,000) to every village for local development projects and for his universal health care program.
The World Bank Institute carried out a project in the Indonesian village of Desa Ban, to enable people to discuss local development projects, such as a road, a kindergarten, water and irrigation projects and a women's savings and loans programme.
It's clear that even a tiny fraction of that amount, if directed to local development projects, could make a huge difference, especially with many donor agencies facing austerity budgets.
Around the country there are 17,000 such councils, which choose local development projects and could be expanded to work on district and regional levels, said the bank's president, Robert B. Zoellick, who visited Bamian this year.
