Sentences with phrase «ngos such»

In my last post on young people's legal capability, I explored how NGOs such as PLEnet and IARS are piloting innovative Public Legal Education («PLE») programmes to enable individuals to take control of their own legal problems.

CCS is supported by environmental NGOs such as Norway's Zero Emissions Resource Organization (ZERO).

On the one hand, he believes NGOs such as Carbon Tracker can be more effective at influencing and informing investors, and has long been a fan of his new company's insights on the policy, regulatory and technology changes driving the world's response to climate change.

He goes on to argue that NGOs such as Oxfam, the Green Party, Christian Aid, the Old Labour Party members, represent the «Left».

When it came to stopping the dumping of radioactive waste in the world's oceans (led by UK and not participated in by the US), it was Greenpeace and the Seamen's Unions (in response to their activism) that stopped the dumping — I was then a scientist / legal activist advising NGOs such as Greenpeace, AND when the governments eventually got the message that they had to clean up their act, I helped the UN create better protection of the marine environment.

Power politics with elected officials or NGOs such as the IPCC or as individuals?

Some excellent work is currently being done on NGOs such as Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

The Vatican is not the only institution to come under scrutiny; Protestant churches, international NGOs such as the Red Cross, banks, art museums and international corporations such as Ford and IBM have been called to account for their behavior.

Project Galileo comes with the backing of the NGOs such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Reporters Without Borders.

Not exact matches

Little Sun engages in projects with partners such as art institutions, international agencies, NGOs, and the private sector to raise global awareness of energy access and solar power.

Many small NGOs pool their resources and develop data purchasing consortia such as the Canadian Council on Social Development Community Social Data Strategy.

As an «informal global political regime», global governance has proven remarkably efficient in the last fifteen to twenty years in changing the language of governments, academia, the media, and NGOs, and in setting new political and cultural goals (such as «sustainability» and «good governance»), thereby creating a new global culture that quietly transforms all cultures from within (see IIS 279 - 81).

Many NGOs and church groups have worked at community development projects, but governments and global agencies have engaged in top - down development, such as huge dams, destructive of community.

While I can't speak on behalf of all NGOs who participate in such programs, I can now state with confidence that World Vision's child sponsorship program consistently exhibits the following:

A multi-stakeholder group, the ICI was established in 2002 under the protocol and represents a partnership among NGOs, trade unions, cocoa processors, such as US firm Cargill, and major chocolate brands that include Nestle and Cadbury.

The company believes that by collaborating with customers, governments, NGOs, and thought leaders we can help find solutions to such global challenges as providing enough healthy food for people everywhere, decreasing dependence on fossil fuels, and protecting life and the environment.

Efforts are underway by various certification bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global food companies to develop the production around poorest regions of the world, such as Africa, and to measure the actual impacts that the various initiatives, standards.

In collaboration with food donation organizations, NGOs, waste experts, and a host of other partners along the supply chain, FWRA produces workable resources, such as best practices in reducing food waste, that offer reality - based applications and guidance to the various aspects of our food production system.

She has worked for local and international NGOs on issues such as gender and poverty reduction, and has consulted on M&E, child labor, forced labor, and trafficking issues.

TTIP Take Back the Power flyer Baby Milk Action is working alongside the growing number of NGOs, Unions and citizens such as War on Want, Trade Justice Movement, WDM and 38 Degrees and 120 organizations from 18 different...

There are also plenty of institutions such as the Corporate Affairs Commission and the National Planning Commission charged with overseeing the operations of NGOs in the country.

Población local activism flourished throughout the 1970s and 80s, supported by the Vicariate of Solidarity — progressive branches of the Catholic Church — internationally funded NGOs, left - wing political parties, and radical armed groups (such as the FPMR and the Lautaro Youth Movement).

But there is categorical evidence from NGOs and foreign governments that the UK lobbied hard against such an agreement being reached, opposing it at the last G20 finance ministers» meeting, and blocking any reference to it in the EU's pre-G20 position.

Part of the objectives of the Foundation was to sponsor students by way of scholarships, grants and organizing capacity building seminars, workshops and other related activities and opportunities to students and young people, as well as collaborating with other stakeholders such as government agencies, NGOs, foreign bodies to raise awareness on the state of education in Nigeria and intervening with solutions.

At the moment, expert organisations such as NGOs, charities and even government departments can sometimes be given permission from a judge to «intervene» in a judicial review.

The warnings by NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch in a coalition of 47 organizations in June that the UN was not sufficiently prepared for the elections and lacks «adequate and appropriate resources to protect civilians... and to avert election - related violence» (HRW 2011) were not acted upon.

In my view, member states should put emphasis on areas such as mediation and let the UN step back from traditional development and humanitarian assistance, as plenty of other actors are now involved in this work — state agencies, NGOs, local communities, foundations and companies.

However, the reason why lobbying has such a bad reputation, is because those lobbyists who represent businesses are usually far better funded than those who represent NGOs.

Prof. Naana Opoku Agyemang commenting further noted the beneficiary students in the free SHS program exclude day students in the 2015/16 academic year that are benefiting from other forms of scholarships such as the Ghana Cocoa Board Scholarships, Northern Scholarships, Secondary Education Improvement Project Scholarships, and those on scholarships provided by NGOs, corporate bodies and individuals.

Imaginative, but «utterly impractical» But NGOs could also initiate such agreements if frameworks were established to allow for such transactions and willing sellers materialized.

Ethical concerns have prevented many NGOs from conducting such trials because they require giving aid to some and not to others, Sandefur says.

In a telephone and email interview from Norway, Harstad said he knows of no specific cases in which such approaches are being used by governments or NGOs.

A State Department fact sheet explained that the United States «will work with educational institutions, NGOs and foreign governments» to decide the focus and location of such centers.

The strategy was facilitated by the creation in the late 1990s of a drug procurement consortium dubbed the Green Light Committee, organized by the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several NGOs and pharmaceutical firms like Eli Lilly that still manufactured the rarely - used antibiotics such as capreomycin and cycloserine needed to treat MDR - TB.

Typically local groups including universities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) draw up proposals with the help of agencies such as the World Bank or the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which also assist in implementing the projects.

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

How NGOs and such organizations are maintaining there accounts?

Dóchas, the Platform for Development NGOs in Ireland, is determined not to let this opportunity pass at such a crucial moment in global campaign to eradicate poverty.

Contract schools are essentially state - funded schools that are operated by non-state agencies such as individuals, NGOs or other organizations.

Conference delegates, consisting of leaders in hotel management, tour operators, regional governments and NGOs, will also gain valuable insights on how to tackle challenges such as the difficulty of marketing a resort, city or region as a responsible tourism destination.

The brand names include not only mass market consumer products — Marlboro, Fruit of the Loom, Nike — but also publications, leftist NGOs, and infrastructure brands, such as Greenpeace and Con Edison.

He works on financial reform, alternative finance and economic activism with a wide variety of NGOs, artists and students, and writes for publications such as The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired Magazine, Aeon and CNN.com.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

To complete our analysis, we collected data from a variety of sources, including commercially available databases such as Platts and the International Energy Agency (IEA), government and corporate websites, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research institutions, and the media.

If the Trump Administration does not include the lavish funding for all sorts of inane «climate» studies in the Administration's Budget, how successful do you think the NGOs and green politicians will be in adding line items for such ridiculous crap?

Finally, voluntary agreements between businesses, policymakers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), such as the Soy Moratorium in Brazil, have proved to be a promising approach.

However, in terms of UK policies on energy efficiency, NGOs and academics argue that focusing on environmental as well as money - saving messages, and making the connection between single initiatives such as home insulation and the bigger picture, are important for trying to reduce the rebound effect.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

From Seed to Table (FStT) is a major 3 - year programme aimed to encourage urban farmer groups to innovate their local production systems, to engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels in 18 major cities, and to enhance the capacities of NGOs to support them effectively in such activities.