Sentences with phrase «appropriate policy interventions»

The economic and social benefits of mangroves — which are estimated to run into the hundreds of billions worldwide — remain largely untapped due to a lack of carbon finance mechanisms, appropriate policy interventions, and rapid mangrove deforestation, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report launched today at the 20th Conference of [continue reading...]

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By the late 1980s, more than seventy of the world's governments reported that they viewed their national fertility or population growth rates as «unsatisfactory,» and that they considered policy interventions to alter these rates to be «appropriate.»

Each LEA participating in the drug testing of students must develop policies and procedures to ensure that those students receive the assistance needed, including an assessment to determine the severity of the student's alcohol and drug problem and a recommendation for referral to intervention or treatment resources as appropriate.

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

You can do this by using robust safeguarding policies to identify children at risk, devise a relevant intervention plan and select the most appropriate referral option.

But amidst the search for a kinder and gentler education politics, research demonstrating the positive effect of these New York City strategies makes the moral case clear for an incoming President and for states and districts rethinking education policies: The American education system presents intolerably long odds to low - income children attending persistently struggling schools, and sometimes the most appropriate response to dramatic failure is dramatic intervention.

The Task Force should also recommend sources of funding for this work, including state funding but also appropriate private foundations in education, health care, and other sectors who might support programmatic and policy interventions on this subject.

We recommend the creation of a Task Force to examine these state laws and other, similar policies, and to consult with appropriate national experts, to determine an appropriate suite of state policy interventions for consideration by the General Assembly, the State Board of Education, DPI, and local boards of education and district officials.

Ultimate decisions regarding appropriate policy or school governance interventions to address instructional and operational issues should remain with local school boards, as made in collaboration with parents and the local community.

Such remedies could consist of one or more of the following: (1) providing clear definitions and examples of threatening actions for which students may be suspended (including specifying the conduct that does not warrant a suspension); (2) requiring the administrator (s) to make specific findings prior to imposing the sanction of suspension, e.g., determining that the behavior in question falls within the scope of the prohibited conduct, and / or determining that other means of addressing student behavior are not feasible or repeatedly failed to bring about appropriate conduct; (3) providing teachers and administrators with training on how to administer the policy fairly and equitably; and / or (4) providing teachers with training in classroom management techniques and effective behavioral interventions that give them appropriate and culturally responsive tools to interpret and address the underlying behaviors.

A sustainable urban livelihoods framework is discussed, which enables to better understand and define the multi-sectoral, institutional and policy aspects of urban agriculture in order to identify appropriate interventions.

The Bill allows the Ministry of Education to establish policies and guidelines with respect to prevention strategies, training for all teachers and other staff, early and ongoing intervention strategies, procedures that allow pupils to report incidents of bullying safely and in a way that minimizes the possibility of reprisal, disciplining pupils, including policies and guidelines respecting the use of disciplinary measures and appropriate consequences for pupils who engage in inappropriate behaviour.

CORE COMPETENCIES Counseling • Training & Development • Research • Psycho Evaluations • Communications • Functional Behavioral Assessments • Planning & Development • Resource Optimization • Program Development • Policies & Procedures • Diagnosis • Medication • Chemical Addiction • Diagnostic Appropriate Therapeutic Intervention • Psycho Tropic Medication Diagnosing and Management

These rules establish: (1) Early intervention for troubled and delinquent borrowers, and loss mitigation procedures, pursuant to the Bureau's authority under section 6 of RESPA, as amended by Dodd - Frank Act section 1463; (2) obligations for mortgage servicers that the Bureau found to be appropriate to carry out the consumer protection purposes of RESPA, as well as its authority under section 19 (a) of RESPA to prescribe rules necessary to achieve the purposes of RESPA; and (3) requirements for general servicing standards, policies, and procedures and continuity of contact, pursuant to the Bureau's authority under section 19 (a) of RESPA.