Thomas and was able to spend time with their emergency management leadership and the local Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster representatives.
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Cash offers voluntary agencies the most flexibility in obtaining the most-needed resources and pumps money into the local economy to help businesses recover.
The government is also switching increasingly to a "payment by results" method of working, whereby voluntary agencies are paid only if they are successful in cutting reoffending.
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Between 21 December and the discovery of his body on 6 January he had been in contact with a number of statutory and voluntary agencies in the Harrogate area, none of which had previously had contact with him.
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It was compiled by voluntary and statutory agencies and also by families who have lost loved ones to suicide.
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He said the report had enabled an improvement in intelligence gathering on the trafficking situation by the police, the voluntary sector and government agencies.
It calls on federal agencies to develop voluntary cybersecurity standards for critical parts of the private sector and to consider proposing new mandates where possible under existing law.
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The Department of Homeland Security is also heading up a voluntary program works with various agencies and industry groups to make sure the policies are actually adopted, and find ways to create incentives for that to happen.
The agency's Voluntary Agency Liaison said about 130 agencies and organizations are helping in the recovery effort.
The FBI conducted a standard 90-day inquiry, including searches of public databases, its own files, and those of other agencies, as well as a voluntary interview, U.S. officials said.
R. 1960 requires that all funds be channeled through U.S. Government agencies and entities or American registered private voluntary organizations (PVOs).
Along with mandatory national standards, the Institute of Medicine is recommending voluntary reductions by the food industry and urging government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise and update nutrition labels.
It will be implemented in close cooperation with the Global Ocean Forum led Voluntary Commitment on building global capacity for integrated ocean governance, in partnership with countries, UN Agencies, global financial institutions, and the private sector.
Fortunately, a handful of governments and governmental agencies have recognized this dilemma, and are acting to correct it by engaging the voluntary carbon markets, which operate outside government bureaucracies and have evolved a slew of tested methods that work.
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Nothing in this section shall preclude the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or other Federal law enforcement agencies, from continuing to use authorized, non-coercive techniques of interrogation that are designed to elicit voluntary statements and do not involve the use of force, threats, or promises.
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