Sentences with phrase «build economic resilience»
February 25, 2014 Building Economic Resilience to Disasters in the Buffalo Niagara Region, Niagara Falls, NY About this event
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Moringa's agroforestry projects create economic benefits for investors and local communities while contributing to building environmental and social resilience of land - use.
We'll build the resilience of local communities, looking at regional banks and business support to help drive city - led economic growth
«By enabling entrepreneurs and green innovators to test and scale their business models, homegrown clean technology solutions can help the country build climate resilience, while also creating jobs and fostering economic growth.»
1.5 by 2030 build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate - related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
«Creative Time Global Residency: Reports From the Field», New York, NY, December 3, 2013 «Urban Imprint: The Art and Science Shaping Our Cities,» hosted by The University of Chicago, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, NY, November 14, 2013 «Cultural Investment: Creating a Civic Identity Through the Arts,» CityLab: Urban Solutions for Global Challenges, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, October 7, 2013 «One State Together in the Arts» One State Illinois Conference, Quad Cities, IL, June 24, 2013 «Theaster Gates in Conversation with Romi Crawford,» Black Collectivities, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 4, 2013 «LINC Legacy and Advancements in the Field,» hosted by the Ford Foundation, May 2013 «Constituency Engagement — Culture - Initiated Redevelopment: Strategies in Innovative Constituent Engagement,» Association of Black Foundation Executives, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL, April 6, 2013 «Creating Heat - The Artist as Catalyst: Theaster Gates at TEDxUNC,» University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, February 9, 2013 «Building CapaCity Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2013 «Creative Resilience Session,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013 «Transformative Art: Theaster Gates,» World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013
These include reducing inertia in social and economic systems; building on a growing public desire for governments to act on climate change; removing implicit and explicit subsidies; reducing the influence of vested interests that increase emissions and reduce resilience; enabling the shifts from ineffective governance and weak institutions to innovative leadership in government, the private sector and civil society; and engaging society in the transition to norms and practices that foster sustainability.
Macroeconomic policies in these countries will need to be calibrated to accommodate more frequent weather shocks, including by building policy space to respond to shocks; infrastructure will need to be upgraded to enhance economic resilience.
This fact sheet intends to explain how to promote economic diversification and build resilience.
The Bank supports country - led development strategies and priorities aimed at integrating climate - and disaster - resilience in national development planning, while helping countries take advantage of new economic, capacity building, and financing opportunities that climate change presents.
In September, Bay Localize launched a Community Resilience Toolkit designed to help groups build ecological, economic, and social resilience in their communities while decreasing reliance on fossil fuels (see www.baylocalize.orgResilience Toolkit designed to help groups build ecological, economic, and social resilience in their communities while decreasing reliance on fossil fuels (see www.baylocalize.orgresilience in their communities while decreasing reliance on fossil fuels (see www.baylocalize.org/toolkit).
«CSRD's activities are relevant to the U.S. government's commitment to building resilience of smallholder farmers and to ensure increased production, as well bolster country resilience,» said David Westerling, acting economic growth office director and Feed the Future team leader for the United States Agency for International Development's mission in Bangladesh.
«The Transition Movement is comprised of vibrant, grassroots community initiatives that seek to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis.
For the Green Belt Movement which has empowered communities to conserve the environment forover 37 years, ensuring food security at household level is vital to having improved livelihoods, economic empowerment and build resilience against climate change in the rural Kenya.
It argues that, in the absence of transformative policies which coherently address the economic, social and environmental dimensions of development, building climate resilience will remain elusive and poverty and inequalities will worsen.
By building resilience and ensuring that all development is risk - informed, countries and communities can protect against losses and simultaneously boost economic growth, create jobs and livelihoods, strengthen access to health and education, and ensure that no one is left behind.
The cultural determinants of health originate from and promote a strength based perspective, acknowledging that stronger connections to culture and country build stronger individual and collective identities, a sense of self - esteem, resilience, and improved outcomes across the other determinants of health including education, economic stability and community safety.