He said he felt services had been more focused on hitting national targets than local needs.
Mr Shapps said localisation would give councils freedom to match benefits to local needs.
Dilip Banerjee is integrating disaster relief into the long-term management of local needs and resources.
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Self-determination helps to drive the search for new ways to deal with local needs.
High-performing companies empower (and expect) local HR managers and executives to adjust core practices based on local needs.
Volunteer Mike Hemsley said the secret of its success is to ensure "supplying local needs is the priority".
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They know the local needs ... and they know the best ways to serve these children and their families.
Plaid Cymru called on the Welsh government to promote good practice among local authorities, including the creation of partnerships, which meet local needs.
The government also promises what it calls "bespoke powers tailored to local needs", which will be up to the new mayor to negotiate.
It will also address how ESD can help move Sustainable Development policy and action forward to meet different global, regional, national, and local needs.
By working closely with communities, Send a Cow is able to develop practical programmes that respect local culture and properly address the local needs.
As the former senior Treasury official, Sir Steve Robson puts it: 'National targets get in the way of local decision making based on local needs'.
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The event included presentations by indigenous peoples of case studies where community-based knowledge complements and advances current scientific understandings, while sustaining cultural integrity and fulfilling local needs.
Support institutions, train and motivate teachers and other personnel to produce and share high-quality, accessible educational resources, taking into account local needs and the full diversity of learners.
Lady Wilcox replied that the government valued the work of the CAB "very highly" but funding was a matter for "local authorities based on local needs and local priorities".
He created grassroots community councils and networks to attend to local needs in neighborhoods across the nation, placing the power to govern in the joint hands of community groups.
He said the government was putting councils "in charge of providing support so it can be administered in a way that best meets local needs and supports local people".
The RSP fears the setting-up of Regional Development Agencies will lead to more money being allocated to urban areas, but the government claims the agencies will be closer to local needs.
Staff at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), an independent federal agency, support and facilitate community-based service programs across the country to meet all kinds of local needs.
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The health service regulator Monitor has appointed independent consultants to look at how services in the area should be re-organised - to ensure that they meet local needs, and the NHS can afford them.
The government says it has been working with local authorities over the past year to ensure that funding is distributed more fairly across the country and that this has involved gathering more detailed data about local needs.
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith is trying to figure out how Europe can balance its local needs to have some sorts of data located within its borders with the need to get the economy of scale promised by cloud computing.
By promoting technology innovation--whether through science competitions, higher education research labs or public-private partnerships that meet local needs--we can have a far-reaching and sustainable impact on the future while addressing the thirst for knowledge that fuels innovation around the globe.
"The development of a consistent vision for policing is essential to manage local community needs, " said Ms Napier.
You might put money overseas to deal with local family needs, keep it discreet from your spouse, ex-spouse, kids, business partner, or creditors.
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But the US has no powers over Petrobras, which is majority owned by the Brazilian government and intent on servicing local oil needs first.
The project will be implemented in partnership between the Iraqi Government, local authorities, UN agencies, and NGOs using participatory approaches responding to concrete local education needs.
But in Strpce, Serb KPS officers still take their orders from headquarters in Urosevac, the nearest big Albanian town, arguing that the local community needs their protection.
They need to identify a particular niche which allows them to address local health needs through biotechnology, then build the necessary infrastructure around that, rather than shooting off in all directions.
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