Sentences with phrase «advocate government support»

Strategies: Service providers integrate customary activities into the curriculum and community planning processes; encourage and support community activities which recognise the importance of law, culture and language; support intellectual property rights; Indigenous languages be included as core curriculum in schools and universities; advocate government support for the collection of cultural information and material from institutions.

Both advocate government support and regulatory relief in that effort.

Not exact matches

Former defence minister and senator for Western Australia David Johnston has been appointed Australia's first defence export advocate, after the federal government committed to spend an additional $ 20 million every year to support the sector.

Among the concerns raised by the advocate in her report Tuesday were a failure of the government's home support program to keep seniors living independently instead of in more expensive residential care, the dramatic overuse of anti-psychotic drugs, and the failure to address vital rehabilitative therapy needs for seniors in residential care.

«Seniors are waiting too long for services and aren't getting the support they need from the Christy Clark government,» said New Democrat health spokesperson Judy Darcy, responding to the release of a report from B.C.'s seniors advocate Isobel Mackenzie.

The government has been working for more than a year on a plan to support homeless veterans and those at risk of becoming homeless, who advocates say need and deserve extra attention after serving in uniform.

First, I would ask how their policy stance can support government support for the forestry and aerospace sectors while advocating a position to, «abolish tax give - aways for oil companies?»

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

This may look like working within the community as a partner, it may look like supporting active work, it may look like participating in a big life - changing way, foster care advocacy, it may look like writing to our government, employment, opportunity, friendship, or perhaps protesting or participating, it may look like advocating for these changes and opportunities at the highest levels of government.

The religious right strongly supports the secular right and advocates pure free - market capitalism liberated from big government.

Oz - Town will be an active advocate in expanding Australian trade relations with China and is currently developing an Australian «Green Channel» into China with related government and industry support.

Groups advocating promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding need to provide accurate information, to educate and communicate on breastfeeding issues.This needs development of strategies at national and government level for Information, Education and Communication (IEC).

Advocating a balanced approach with greater parental involvement and empowerment, comprehensive industry self - regulation and reasonable government oversight and support, the Institute provides a forum for exchanging information, developing ideas and refining solutions.

The International Baby Food Action Network works by building alliances, protecting people from baby food corporations» misleading propaganda, advocating with governments to hold the baby food corporations accountable, providing technical and planning support to governments, campaigning, training and capacity building.

One of your common tasks is usually going to be supporting your government relations team (or your citizen advocates and volunteers) by collecting documents that they want Hill staff to see and presenting them on a central page about an issue.

Since school food programs are largely supported by the federal government, the expanded program would bring in an additional $ 24 million in federal and state funds, bringing their total to about $ 60 million, advocates have said.

«This race will be a choice between a community advocate who stands for ethics reform in government, supporting small businesses and middle class workers, and equality for all people, or a out of touch 1 % er who represents big business, back door politics as usual, and the conservative agenda,» Small said.

The good government groups and reform advocates — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo — are not alone in trying to capitalize on the latest scandal at the Capitol in an effort to reignite support for an ethics overhaul.

Congratulations also goes to the large coalition of labor unions, business groups, transit and environmental advocates and good government groups that supported passage of the bill this session, and identical bills in 2011.

Good government and fiscal watchdog groups had advocated for 5 major clean contracting reforms during the legislative session, with 78 different lawmakers across party and ideological lines signing on to legislation supporting at least one of the reforms.

«I thank Senator Savino, Mayor de Blasio, Speaker Heastie, Governor Cuomo, our colleagues in government in both parties, and all the advocates, seniors, and people with disabilities who supported this critical legislation.»

These are priorities for the Assembly Majority and while we will continue to advocate for them, we can not achieve these goals without the support of our partners in government.

The Institute makes the call in response to a Treasury consultation on how to increase the supply of capital to growing, innovative firms.1 The CIOT's response focuses on steps the Government could take to make current tax reliefs more efficient and effective, to provide the best support in line with their policy objectives.2 The CIOT advocates greater post-legislative review and evaluation of tax measures, including tax reliefs.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli supports the use of his seat as a pilot program of sorts for public financing, but he and good government advocates had hoped for something more and different.

Regarded as right of centre, Pritchard nonetheless was one of the first advocates of compassionate conservatism in the United Kingdom and has vocally supported the coalition government's policy of increased spending on international aid.

Koch and good government advocates met earlier with Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos who formally informed them he does not intend to meet today's deadline to support an independent commission, as required by the ex-mayor's NY Uprising pledge.

Advocates cite the good polling on public financing, their grassroots support and, of course, the parade of corruption scandals that have hit state government in the last two months.

While it affirms the stands of the government and people of the state of Libya against these inhuman actions, he said the Ministry has for many years advocated for effective policies in dealing with these phenomena by supporting institutional capacity - building and enterprise development in the country to eliminate illegal migration, smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings as stated in the Tripoli joint Declaration -LCB- Africa and European Union -RCB- in 2006.

At 2 p.m., key elected officials representing all levels of state government join reform advocates in calling on their colleagues to support efforts to end political corruption, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Riverkeeper Water Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.»

During the Cold War people who criticized Soviet government, its practices and abuses were called «dissidents» in the West, even if they politically supported Socialism or advocated better application of the Soviet laws, such as the constitution.

ALBANY - Reform advocates say that when he takes office as governor Saturday, Andrew Cuomo can start fixing state government without waiting for legislative support, by using executive authority to order dozens of steps to improve ethics and openness, protect consumers and help the environment.

Clegg is damaged beyond repair - the electorate are never going to forgive him and those of us who voted LibDem tactically at the general election for a centre - left coalition but ended up getting a rightwing doctrinaire government instead that has done the exact opposite of what the LibDem manifesto said, would probably vote for the devil himself before they'd support anything Clegg now advocates.

To understand why Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed tax on sugary sodas has apparently gone down the drain — despite strong support from good - government groups, editorial pages and health advocates — it is only necessary, political analysts say, to compare these two advertising campaigns:

However, those who advocate increases in this very worthwhile area of R&D also must recognize that neither the advancement of the nation's health, nor the many other important national goals to which S&T contributes will be served if it is the only area of R&D that receives strong government support in the years ahead.

Nonetheless, advocates hope that governments will require formal evaluations under the protocol and apply minimum standards to the projects that they support.

The group includes include state and local governments, business and industry, civil rights and labor groups, housing and child advocates, and research and professional organizations «that support a complete, fair and accurate census.»

In the process, the inventors themselves bring recognition to the value of innovation, serving as living examples of what an inventor can accomplish in terms of solving problems that confront society, as well as advocating for the support of innovation through prerequisites such as strong STEM education and sustained government funding of science and technology.

One panel member, YoungSuk Chi, vice-chairman and managing director of global academic and customer relations for Amsterdam - based Elsevier, dissented from the report, saying that it supports «an overly expansive role of government and advocates approaches to the business of scholarly publishing that I believe are overly prescriptive.»

Responding to concerns from advocates for public access to government - funded research, the House of Representatives science committee has agreed to shorten the deadline within a draft bill requiring federal agencies to provide free access to scientific papers that they supported.

ALS Canada advocates federally, provincially, and locally for better government support and access within the healthcare system for people touched by ALS.

In the 1960s and 1970s, government - supported child care was seen by its advocates as something that an America still economically dominant should be able to provide to its citizens, and particularly the poor.

According to the mission of her organization, which is not part of government, it exists to «support, promote and advocate for the Louisiana charter school movement, increasing student access to high quality public schools statewide.»

Both the Church of England and the Catholic Church were initially cautious about advocating or supporting schools» conversion to academy status and have been talking to the government about the arrangements for this.

Citing the new Education Next results, Petrilli argues that charter advocates should focus on regaining GOP support, and suggests doing so by tamping down social justice rhetoric (such as closing achievement gaps and alleviating systemic inequalities), by emphasizing parental choice and personal freedom (i.e., that charters liberate families from their government - assigned schools), and by touting that most charters are non-union.

This conference, sponsored by the National Coalition on School Diversity, brings together a wide range of government officials to converse with educators, civil rights advocates, and scholars who support racially and economically integrated K - 12 public schools.

D. Obeys local, state and national laws and does not knowingly join or support organizations that advocate, directly or indirectly, the overthrow of the government.

Prior to working in the federal government she was the Director of Public Policy and Community Partnerships for Green Dot Public Schools where she was responsible for executing Green Dot's reform agenda by advocating at the local, state and federal level for education reform, supporting existing schools with compliance and oversight, the development of new schools and overseeing the implementation a community schools model at the new Locke Wellness Center.

Tax credits command support from a larger coalition of conservatives, free market advocates, and private schools than do vouchers, in large part for the same reason they are more legally viable: they are not government funds and pose less danger to the autonomy of private schools that accept them.

We have also created sample resolutions to help education advocates and government leaders support our initiative.