How the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol respond

The UN Convention on Climate Change recognizes this reality: on Education, Training and Public Awareness, it calls on governments to promote the development and implementation of educational and public awareness programmes, promote public access to information and public participation, and promote training of scientific, technical and managerial personnel.

The Kyoto Protocol builds on this and calls on Parties to cooperate in and promote, at the national and international levels, the development and implementation of educational and training programmes, including the strengthening of national capacity building; and to facilitate, at the national level, public awareness and public access to information

Making health care for all a reality

• Every minute, a woman with no medical care dies in pregnancy or childbirth
• Every hour, 300 people die of an AIDS-related illness
• Every day, 4,000 children die of diarrhoea caused by dirty water

Millions of people in poor countries get low-quality health care, or are forced to go without it altogether. Fees are too high, hospitals and clinics are too few, and lack of medical staff means people struggle to get treated.

The result?

Unimaginable suffering – much of it absolutely preventable. And ever-deepening poverty too, because illness affects people’s work, and damages economies.

And until people get basic services like cheap health care and clean water, it’s going to continue.

Doctors – a luxury?

Good health care is a fundamental right, not a luxury.

People everywhere should be able to visit a local clinic or hospital, and get care and affordable medicines, whenever they need them.

Methodology of Economic Development

DELTA provides training and expert assistance to municipal teams (comprised of the members of the local government and the business community) to develop medium- to long-term economic development plans. The goal of the strategies is to improve the business-enabling environment and to generate private sector growth in each partner municipality.

This comprehensive website details the entire project methodology employed in operating such a program. It has been developed by the Foundation for Local Autonomy and Governance, which acted as the chief implementing partner for DELTA Albania. These pages are intended to serve two primary purposes:

• to educate and guide municipalities, donors and experts alike in undertaking local economic development strategic planning; and
  
• to highlight the strategies that have been completed under DELTA Program in Kosovo and Albania
  

There has been a growing consensus in the donor community about the need for government and private sector leadership to forge partnerships for economic development. One of the most important areas of public-private sector interface is in the areas of national business enabling environment. However, barriers to private sector development often occur at the sub-national or local level. Local taxes, municipal fees, and other administrative obstacles may originate in city hall, rather than in the national parliament. Furthermore, local governments often do not have the capacity to develop or implement policies or programs that can help foment growth in their municipality by concurrently removing barriers to investment, developing and institutionalizing public-private partnerships, and formulating economic development strategies about ways to exploit comparative advantages of their region, municipality, or town. Therefore, the impact of national-level policy reforms may be weak, particularly in countries that are going through the decentralization process.

With this in mind, the DELTA program was designed to forge strong public-private partnerships at the municipal level to create alliances for improving the business climate and for stimulating creative ideas, after undertaking a municipal competitive assessment, to foster private sector growth.

To push the door for public participation in legislation

To push the door for public participation in legislation, PATTIRO conducted a research on legislation function in national/local Legislative Assembly (DPR/DPRD). PATTIRO conducted this research with Local and National Legislation Reform Coalition. This research was meant to find out whether structure, function and capacity of DPR/DPRD are conducive to public participation in legislation (regulation/law) process. Beside conducting research, PATTIRO also encouraged the creation of Legislation Body/Committee that plays as a door to let regulation proposals from public initiatives.
Before General Election 2004, PATTIRO also gave political education specifically for women. It aimed at letting women reason to make their choice. At that time, PATTIRO also encouraged political contract with many women politicians. The contract stated that they must fight for women interest when they are elected.

In all of its activities, beside being facilitator of democratization process originated from citizens, PATTIRO often had to be directly involved as actor. Involvement in various political process, whether in negotiation, cooperation or adversity process, is inevitable when it comes to public empowerment. New political power emerged in General Election 2004 who came from educated youth provide wider room for PATTIRO to develop cooperation approach in its advocacy effort. PATTIRO tries to offer various alternatives of public participation in order to improve the condition of society.