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Miss Clark stressed the need for a “sustained presence at the local level to understand and respond to immediate and longer term needs of communities, including on issues of livelihoods, basic social services, provision of security and justice to victims,” highlighting the 2013 collaboration between the UN and local authorities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in the investigation of various crimes. She highlighted the recent example of Somalia, where the UN “enabled local governments and municipalities to collect property and business taxes,” the revenue of which is now used to fund elections, waste collection and road-building across the country.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:27:23 +0000

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