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One of the activities undertaken currently by the European Union is an aspiration for widely understood development achieved by a decrease in worlds poverty and reaching of Millennium Development Goals. The goals specified within the United Nations Millennium Project include development and strengthening of worldwide partnership in the range of development. The European Union perceives the possibility of this goal reaching by the support of widely understood cooperation on local and regional level, between highly developed and the most poorly developed countries, between the North and South. The social-economic development is currently perceived locally all over the world, and it is difficult to imagine separated spatial units without an engagement of self-governance authorities. Development and strengthening of the worldwide partnership is to be achieved by support of an activity of local authorities, non-governmental institutions and local communities, and by the propagation of cooperation idea. For this purpose, the European Commission has undertaken a range of projects aimed at strengthening of self-governance authorities and other local entities contribution in particular countries development, including the most poorly developed ones. ; Anna Mempel-Sniezyk

The role of traditional Authorities in local governance was the subject of the study. The research design consisted of various methods of data collection including in-depth face-to face interviews, document reviews and observations. One technique that was used throughout the research to get information from all traditional role players was the appreciative technique. The population was made up of opinion leaders, settlers, chiefs, fetish priests, identified group leaders, tengdamba (land owners), family heads and local government staff. The instruments were pretested for reliability The analysis consisted of describing qualitative data while quantitative data was analysed using SPSS (statistical package for social sciences). It emerged that traditional institutions have more good to offer the District Assembly in local governance than their limitation of the work of the Assembly. The institutions have remained resilient in the face of modern challenges because of the confidence and trust people have in them and are prepared to defend them. People perceive traditional authorities to present their history, norms, values and belief systems; it is believed society would get much more substantially than if they are excluded.

AbstractThirty national organizations of municipal officials have joined international group.