Sentences with phrase «change challenge program»

H Pathak, an investigator with the Indian Agricultural Research Institute's Climate Change Challenge Program, said global warming isn't limited to a rise in average temperatures.

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The activists who sponsored that 1970 protest — the first Earth Day — called it «a day to challenge the corporate and governmental leaders who promise change, but who shortchange the necessary programs.»

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

Delvinia launches Scotiabank International's Change - Maker Challenge program; a contest that asked young adults from 14 Caribbean countries to share their marketing vision for Scotiabank Be.

Although the loan guarantee program is only one of many things the SBA does to help small businesses, because they recognize that access to capital is a big challenge for many of the businesses they serve, they've made some recent changes that portend a positive impact for small businesses.

This new program recognizes and supports young Canadians who work in the international arena on the most pressing challenges of this century including political unrest, climate change, human rights and global health pandemics.

A highlight in the program, this panel invites leaders to share how they and their governments are working with high impact, creative change - makers, recognizing that their approaches may challenge mainstream modus operandi.

An overview of the changing needs and growth challenges of each period of life provides a useful format for structuring a comprehensive family life program.

Simply Organic is also running an awesome challenge called Cook For A Change that will donate one meal to the Ceres Community Project Healing Meals Program for every use of #cookforachange on social media!

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

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IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

A good fitness program is something that you would constantly enjoy doing but would still challenge your body so that it can make the changes that you are looking for.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

We provide support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

Mass Audubon provides support for municipalities through the Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) program, which assists communities in addressing the challenges of climate change and prioritizing actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

We also remain flexible to change our program calendar or game rules to keep them continually fun and challenging and fair to all.»

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

The program provides support for communities across the Commonwealth to address the challenges of climate change, and to prioritize actions to create a safer and more resilient future.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Changing our teacher education programs is a serious challenge, but one that must be confronted to develop a competitive American workforce.

«This is increasingly challenging as priorities and programs change and as we restructure the way we pursue biopharmaceutical R&D.

«A review of the literature exploring the effects of climate change on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queenchange on biodiversity has revealed a gap in what may be the main challenge to the world's fauna and flora,» said the senior author Dr. James Watson, Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of QueenChange Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

The International Polar Foundation welcomes financial support from individual donors and corporate sponsors, towards specific program allocation, to implement its mission for science in the polar regions, meeting the challenge of climate change, and the establishment of a low carbon society.

He also co-directs Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Research priorities in the IRRI - China collaboration include China's national program on breeding super hybrid rice, improving the grain quality of inbred rice lines, and addressing the challenges of climate change effects in farming through climate - smart technologies.

I also co-direct Rutgers» transdisciplinary Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience (C2R2) initiative, a training program which brings graduate students in the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, and urban planning together with coastal stakeholders to tackle the challenges that climate change poses to the world's coastlines.

It's important to ensure you're always challenging your muscles — I'd say you could change your program almost weekly depending on where you're at.»

Tracking strength progression is vital to any resistance based program, with muscles needing to be consistently challenged in order to fortify the neural connections and muscular adaptions needed for change.

His program is a great way to change up your workout during or after the 30 - day challenge, and will give you more tools in your tool bag so you're never without a plan for a workout!

This initiative aims to save and change lives by offering an extraordinary program that recognizes the creative power of the inner fire of individuals daring to claim and transform the pain which has led to addiction and mental health challenges.

The Lifestyle Change Program for Anxiety is customized for anxiety in general and more directly for the patient's unique anxiety history and challenges.

Each Lifestyle Change Program is designed for the individual's specific health challenge.

As you continue through the program, you'll notice how the intervals are continually getting just a bit more challenging - rest times are changing as are work times.

I know from experience that making changes and adopting a new lifestyle can be a challenge for most people so I designed my program to ease you from one transitional step in the process to the next so you don't feel deprived and aren't confused about what to eat during each stage.

Lifestyle Change Programs start with assessment for evaluation of medical history, health challenges, intentions and goals for retreat program.

One of the most challenging aspects of implementing and sustaining any whole - school program is changes in staff personnel and responsibilities, especially at the start of a new school year.

For more than 40 years, the Institute for Educational Management (IEM)-- one of the flagship leadership development programs offered by the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) at HGSE — has brought together participants with a variety of perspectives, from a broad range of institutions, to focus on the challenges of organizational change and leadership.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

The new program will introduce strategies and processes to help change school culture, address challenging behaviors like bullying, and promote students» caring and respect.

Because preparation of principals has not kept pace with changes in the larger world of schooling, graduates of principal - preparation programs have been left ill equipped for the challenges and opportunities posed by an era of accountability.

Student Teachers Get «Real World» Practice Via Virtual Reality (Education Week) Chris Dede weighs in on how we can recognize biases through virtual reality simulations where you can easily change students» race and genders, and how training programs can help to address how teachers practice responding to challenging behaviors and stereotyping.

The program explores the challenges of implementing standards - based reform and equips participants with strategies for overcoming common hurdles and becoming catalysts of systemic change.

The program's aim is to teach awareness of the skills needed to form respectful relationships and more specifically to challenge gender stereotypes that can lead to gender - based violence and disrespectful attitudes to women.The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) states that, «Early interventions with children and young people can have a lasting effect on their relationships in the future... On the basis of current evidence, violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives among young people can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours.»

First, the programs can be broad, aiming to incentivize policy changes in multiple areas in one fell swoop, or narrowly focused on a specific challenge facing most school systems.

This would not end all legal challenges to vouchers, but it would constitute an enormous sea change in the law surrounding voucher programs.

Schools or programs often face challenges in delivering services — such as limited time — that may change what aspects of a service they implement and how.

[222] Thus, Early Head Start and Head Start families sometimes move during a program year because of changing and challenging family circumstances.