Town of Chester Stormwater Management Project

Great Bay Environmental Consulting (GBEC) worked with the Town of Chester Planning Board to improve regulatory approaches to stormwater management. The project was conducted in two phases: Phase I involved an inventory and assessment of existing regulations for their treatment of stormwater management, with recommendations for an approach to improve stormwater management in the town. The Planning Board opted to focus on specific changes to existing subdivision and site planning regulations, so Phase II of the project involved the development of specific recommendations for those regulations

Ahora o nunca : lograr una ayuda humanitaria más eficaz

Sumario: Con motivo de su 25º aniversario, la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), en colaboración con DARA, organizó tres diálogos sobre la eficacia de la ayuda humanitaria en octubre y noviembre de 2013. Entre los ponentes se encontraban Valerie Amos, Secretaria General Adjunta de Asuntos Humanitarios y Coordinadora del Socorro de Emergencia de las Naciones Unidas; Peter Maurer, Presidente del Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja; y Claus Sørensen, Director General del Departamento de Ayuda Humanitaria y Protección Civil de la Comisión Europea (ECHO). En este informe se recogen los principales asuntos de debate

Anti-Corruption Law in Local Government: Legal Issues related to Ordinance-Design and Municipal-Level Anti-Corruption Agencies in Macedonia

Macedonian municipalities should pass anti-corruption ordinances in order to reduce corruption. The paper reviews the legal issues involved in drafting such ordinances and provides legal advisors to local councils with the legal and economic analysis needed to tackle some of the more difficult and detailed questions. The most important issue revolves around the creation of a model ordinance which Macedonian municipalities (or the Association of Units of Local Self-Government of the Republic of Macedonia) could adopt in order to set-up and run municipal-level anti-corruption agencies. The location of such agencies as well as their competencies (to monitor conflicts of interests, oversee asset declarations, and conduct corruption risk-audits among others ) are analysed. The paper also provides legal interpretations of Macedonian legislation and their likely impact on municipal council ordinance design in the area of anti-corruption - providing the legal basis for positive administrative silence, the splitting of municipal procurement contracts, and (most controversially) qui tam rewards at the municipal level. A brief regulatory impact analysis of the ordinance shows a gain of Euro 162,900 in social welfare if such a programme were rolled-out in Macedonia.

Scan of Leadership Development Programs

[Original publication date is uncertain.]http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108544/1/Scan_of_Leadership_Development_Programs.pd

Otro título: Sumary report

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