Tricky challenges In general, there are four main methods for offering microinsurance the partner-agent model, the provider-driven model, the full-service model, and the community-based model.

The Councils have transformed the state's economic development approach from a top-down model to a bottom-up, community-based one.

This effort exemplifies the community-based policing model that is used in Operations Division West and throughout the Tucson Police Department.

Local Advisory Board Networks - In an effort to get books to children all over the United States and Canada, this community-based model brings together local leaders, educators, and volunteers.

Mr. Brown, who was named Police Commissioner last year, has begun to move the department toward a community-based model of policing.

A community-based model would see compensation paid to those most directly affected by wind turbine installations and consensus on the siting - or the non-siting - of turbines.

In a community-based model, the developer/manager of a wind farm shares ownership of the project with area landowners and other community members.

World Water Corps volunteers provide professional support to Water For People's work overseas within the parameters of its successful community-based model.

One recommendation was that Reach be identified as a community-based model worthy of supporting.

Partly because the community-based model appeared effective and partly because it was cheaper, the Kansas Legislature decided to close one of its three mental hospitals.