Decentralized governments: local empowerment and sustainable development challenges in Africa

sustainable development and security and legal empowerment of local governments in iran

given to the mosaic identity of states around the world, they have experienced different models for good spatial governance. even now, some states, disrespect of existence and non-existence of potential ethnic tensions, are looking ways of good governance of space and multi-ethnic geography. until now, five models including: 1.centralisation, 2.fedralism, 3.consociationalism, 4.decentralisation...

Biotechnology for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

The Green Revolution (GR) in Asia was started b y the availability of high yielding pest and disease resistant varieties of wheat and rice from CIMMYT developed by Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug clearly showing research when well focus does pay major dividends. These improved varieties became catalystic to Green Revolution, but the overall success was achieved due to increased governme...

Community Empowerment for Sustainable Development in Iran

Preface: " Poverty is not simply a matter of material deprivation. It is a matter of human dignity, justice, fundamental freedoms and basic human rights. " 1-UNESCO The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) development community has arrived at a critical point in its approach to the issue of poverty alleviation and its ideal of poverty eradication. Despite valiant efforts on the part of the gover...

Empowerment for Sustainable Development : Towards Operational Strategies

Cybersecurity Challenges to American State and Local Governments

In this paper, we examine cybersecurity challenges to American state and local governments. In particular, we address the extent and magnitude of cyberattacks against these governments, the problems these governments face in preventing attacks from being successful, the barriers internal to their organizations that make cybersecurity difficult to achieve, and actions that they believe should be...