The Commanders, Emergency Response Program CERPP) funding is critical to delivering quick, effective assistance projects, which, in coordination with USAID and local officials, supports both locally identified needs and longer term development goals.
Similarly, the Montagnards supported deputies sent "on mission" to the départements when they clashed with locally elected officials, while the Girondins tended to back the officials.
Indeed, some feminists charge that foreign-funded NGOs are "a new form of colonialism because they create dependence on nonelected overseas funders and their locally appointed officials, undermining the development of social programs administered by elected officials accountable to local people" (Jaggar 2001, 309).
The measure was opposed by the Assn. of California Water Agencies and the California Special Districts Assn., which said in a letter to lawmakers that the measure "could set negative precedent for other special districts and local agencies by changing campaign finance principles for locally elected officials".
Centralisers under Margaret Thatcher, they now want to devolve power to locally elected officials, including mayors and police chiefs.
In other unitary systems of this type, decentralization on a territorial basis is actually provided for constitutionally, and the powers of locally elected officials are prescribed in detail.
In its proposal, the company said it would hire employees locally — company officials say for every bus that is ordered, they need one or two workers here.
And yet Mr Cameron's plan to shift power from governing elites to communities and locally elected officials is a possible remedy for it.
Already Petrobras is doing much of its procurement locally, and officials point to a revival in Brazil's shipbuilding industry as an early success.
