THE ROLE OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY IN IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBALISED WORLD

While globalisation is considered to be the source of many opportunities, it also remains one of the greatest challenges facing the national and international communities. In order to exploit fully the growth potential arising from this phenomenon and to ensure that it doesn't have a major impact on the environment, on one hand and that its benefits are shared fairly on the other, many leaders of state around the world decided upon implementing sustainable development. Acting according to the motto: "think globally act locally" public authorities play a crucial role in this process. Their success in implementing sustainable development depend on the administrative capacity they posses. Administrative capacity is the body of material, institutional and human resources which an administrative territorial unit disposes of, and the actions it carries out to exercise the competences set by law. A correct and continuous assessment of this capacity represents the condition sine qua non for resolving the challenges facing the global community.