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Local actors often lack the funding and sometimes the logistical means and the technical capacity to implement effective, local peacebuilding programs.
So international actors should expand their funding and support for local conflict resolution.
So for instance, in the province of the Kivus, the Life and Peace Institute and its Congolese partners have set up inter-community forums to discuss the specifics of local conflicts over land, and these forums have found solutions to help manage the violence.
Weeks later, we met at the local Starbucks, and I started right in with the tough-love budget conversation.
So he sat down with the local chiefs, and he listened.
And we know that answer because of the extraordinary work of an incredible group of NGOs, of governments, of local leaders, of U.N. agencies and many humanitarian and other organizations that came and joined the fight to try and stop Ebola in West Africa.
Buildings don't just reflect our society, they shape our society down to the smallest spaces: the local libraries, the homes where we raise our children, and the walk that they take from the bedroom to the bathroom.
Within 75 years, most houses' supporting beams have rotted and sagged, and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards.
She was attending a nine-month literacy program run by a local NGO in the Cairo suburbs.
She received a grant from a local NGO to fund her business studies at the university.
Now, a specific thing for this particular version of the project is that I'm very interested to see how we can connect with the local population, the native population.
So we're trying to redefine how we look at our future in outer space by exploring integration, biology, technology and people; by using a cocreation approach; and by using and exploring local traditions and to see how we can learn from the past and integrate that into our deep future.
You put in your address, you get local complaints.
This is in 2010 in Uganda, working on a solution that allowed local populations to avoid government surveillance on their mobile phones for expressing dissent.
I kept talking about NGOs supplying medicines to local clinics that may help his son to get better.
And when this was first built, there were protests in the local village.
One: You loan 200 dollars to each of 500 banana farmers allowing them to dry their surplus bananas and fetch 15 percent more revenue at the local market.
Our dream is to take an Eric Muthomi and try to help him become a Mo Ibrahim, which requires skill, financing, local and global partnerships, and extraordinary perseverance.
We hope to help solve food security, empower farmers, create jobs, develop the local economy, and we hope to become rich in the process.
Theaster Gates: One of the things I've found that's really important is giving thought to not just the kind of individual project, like an old house, but what's the relationship between an old house, a local school, a small bodega, and is there some kind of synergy between those things?
In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening locally, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can happen.
It may be local outgassing, stuff which goes up and comes back.
Finally, very recently, we were able to track down a dig site where a local fossil hunter found several bones of Spinosaurus.
Recently, the Gates Foundation funded a project in the second largest city of the Philippines, where local advocates and local law enforcement were able to transform corrupt police and broken courts so drastically, that in just four short years, they were able to measurably reduce the commercial sexual violence against poor kids by 79 percent.
GH: In Guatemala, for instance, we've started a project there with the local police and court system, prosecutors, to retrain them so that they can actually effectively bring these cases.
Many people thought that the Hawaiian papaya was doomed, but then, a local Hawaiian, a plant pathologist named Dennis Gonsalves, decided to try to fight this disease using genetic engineering.
After two weeks with no human contact, Tori was able to contact a local cargo ship via VHF radio.
Or do you think they're a cardiologist, a barrister or maybe your local politician?
If you enroll in private high school tutoring, go to your local state school or maybe just drop into your local refugee tutoring center.
By the time my generation walked the streets, disinvestment at the local, state and federal level, eroded infrastructure, and the War on Drugs dismantled my family and community.
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