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English translation: guidelines/provide guidance

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Dutch term or phrase:	handvatten te geven
English translation:	guidelines/provide guidance
Entered by:	Siobhan Schoonhoff-Reilly

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13:26 Mar 23, 2005

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Dutch term or phrase: handvatten te geven

De inventarisaties zijn uitgewerkt in SWOT analyses, om zodoende ** handvatten te geven ** voor gemeentelijk beleid en knelpunten in de toekomst te voorkomen.

Siobhan Schoonhoff-Reilly KudoZ activity Questions: 67 (1 open) (4 closed without grading) Answers: 180
Local time: 06:37

guidelines/provide guidance

Explanation:
I understand it merely as to give guidance

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Note added at 46 mins (2005-03-23 14:13:10 GMT)
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guidelines or criteria

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Note added at 54 mins (2005-03-23 14:21:22 GMT)
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to provide guidelines/criteria for community policy

Selected response from:

Lawyer-Linguist
Portugal
Local time: 05:37

Grading comment

Thanks you!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

to give tips and tricks

WIDIC

3 +1

provide points of reference

Ken Cox

3 +1

guidelines/provide guidance

Lawyer-Linguist

to get a grip on

KimvanLent

to be used as anchor points

Francina

to provide tools

MoiraB

provide benchmarks

writeaway

Answers

9 mins confidence:

to give tips and tricks

Explanation:
and/or clarification of facts for permanent improvement

WIDIC
Germany
Local time: 06:37
Native speaker of:

German

10 mins confidence:

to provide tools

Explanation:
for formulating municipal policy. Or perhaps 'to facilitate municipal policy'

Often means the same as 'aangrijpingspunt'

MoiraB
Local time: 06:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 20

44 mins confidence:

provide benchmarks

Explanation:
perhaps

writeaway
Local time: 06:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 30

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

guidelines/provide guidance

Lawyer-Linguist
Portugal
Local time: 05:37
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thanks you!

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

provide points of reference

Explanation:
another option; IMHO not a 100-percent match, but maybe 'good enough for government work'.

If you really want to keep the imagery of the source text, my suggestion would be radical rewording along the lines of '... elaborated in the form of SWOT analyses to enable municipal policy makers to get a handle on the issues and avoid...'

Ken Cox
Local time: 06:37
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

2 hrs confidence:

to be used as anchor points

Explanation:
might work

Francina
United States
Local time: 00:37
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Dutch
PRO pts in category: 4

17 hrs confidence:

to get a grip on

Explanation:
.

KimvanLent

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