Sentences with phrase «building regional capacity»

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Healthy Schools BC Regional Grants aim to build regional capacity amongst health, education and community partners to collaboratively work through new approaches and designs for learning (such as the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well - being.

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In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.

The IFOAM project Regional Cooperation for Organic Standards and Certification Capacity in East Africa (OSEA) and the UNEP / UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) project Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products in East Africa facilitated the development of a regional organic standard in the period 2005 to 2007.

As part of the tour of the facility, Engineer Amr Zayed took the visitors through the model of the 160 - bed capacity regional hospital project showing the locations of the various facilities before ushering the visiting team into the main building.

Specifically, it will enhance the capacity building of the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) at the national and regional levels and strengthen the skills of the professional and non-professional staff of the statistical units through the acquisition of goods and the provision of training.

The first round of winners, announced last week, emphasizes regional development and capacity building, as well as top - notch research on humans, plants, and animals.

Relatively small contributions can make it possible for scientists from developing countries to participate in WCRP regional and international capacity building efforts that would normally be beyond a country's means.

The Convention recognizes the importance of women in the implementation of the Convention, and identifies critical areas for their engagement: (i) awareness - raising, and participation in the design and implementation of programmes; (ii) decision - making processes that men and women adopt at the local level in the governance of development, implementation and review of regional and national action programmes (RAPs and NAPs); and (iii) capacity - building, education and public awareness, particularly at local level through the support of local organizations.

He is building regional achievement centers across the state and moving a lot of people out of a «central function» to work with schools and superintendents «to build out» the capacity of the four pillars at the school level.

The center provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools in meeting student achievement goals.

Texas Comprehensive Center (TXCC): The TXCC provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

ConnectEd is also committed to building state, regional, and local capacity to help realize significant progress by 2020 toward statewide Linked Learning adoption.

Texas Comprehensive Center (2005 — 2012): The Texas Comprehensive Center provided technical assistance and professional development to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools engaged in improvement efforts.

In examining this trend, we identified four themes emerging across the states: (1) Utilizing regional organizations and building central office capacity; (2) Building capacity with limited resources; (3) Blending mandates and capacity building; and (4) Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs: Targeting districts in dbuilding central office capacity; (2) Building capacity with limited resources; (3) Blending mandates and capacity building; and (4) Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs: Targeting districts in dBuilding capacity with limited resources; (3) Blending mandates and capacity building; and (4) Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs: Targeting districts in dbuilding; and (4) Changing technical assistance roles of SEAs: Targeting districts in distress.

As noted, SEAs rely on regional service units to provide support for capacity building, but there has been another shift in strategy as well.

Utilizing regional organizations and building central office capacity.

To support regional capacity - building efforts to better serve the state's ELs, Icela became one of the state's only WIDA - certified trainers on the English language proficiency standards and assessments.

Available to schools, districts, or regional service agencies, ASCD's Capacity Building solution can be delivered on - site, virtually, or in a blended model.

In support of AACTE's mission to build capacity for high - quality educator preparation programs, we are excited to announce plans for new regional workshops focused on performance assessment, continuous improvement, and quality assurance.

Available to schools, districts, regional service agencies and state departments of education, ASCD's capacity - building solution can be delivered on - site, virtually, or through a blended model.

Provide high - quality, evidenced - based, practical resources and approaches that build capacity and create sustainable early childhood practices at the regional, state, and local levels;

Under the grant, the DPLA will collaborate with its service «hubs» — regional digital library partners located in states and regions in the United States — to build curricular resources and implement hands - on training programs that develop digital skills and capacity within the staffs of public libraries.

The deal is aimed at assessing the current statistical systems, building capacities on both a local and regional level, providing internships for QTA staff, technical support for QTA departments, a tourism sector human capital development strategy, and a visa facilitation study

These affiliations provide capacity building opportunities as well as regional marketing initiatives for Belize.

The MOU aims to enhance the cooperation between UNWTO and CTO in areas such as the preparation of regional strategies and action plans for the development of sustainable tourism, the promotion of tourism investment, market intelligence and capacity building.

Major underlying themes are economic and cultural convergence and capacity building, with a substantial reduction in regional differences in per capita income.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

This analytical report proposes that the scaling up of renewable energy to levels that would have a significant impact on the African energy scene could be achieved through deliberate interventions on policy and institutional environment; technology acquisition, development and integration; investment mobilization; and regional integration, networking, and capacity building.

At the national, regional, and global level, UN-Habitat works to raise awareness and to help counterparts to build the capacities needed to enable cities and local governments to address climate change effectively.

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

The priority areas for intervention identified in the report include: ecosystem conservation and rehabilitation to combat poverty; capacity - building to strengthen environmental governance; and enhance and promote regional environmental cooperation.

With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.

Such efforts are beginning at the federal, regional, state, tribal, and local levels, and in the corporate and non-governmental sectors, to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change impacts.

The regional discussions emphasized the need to enhance transboundary cooperation on water resource management, and to build adaptive capacities of institutions in each region to manage emerging challenges, particularly those related to climate change.

As part of a major project on improving environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea through regional coordination and capacity - building, SEI Tallinn researchers examined possible trade - offs between marine protection — widely seen as a priority — and offshore wind power development in Estonia.

ACTS seeks to build community and business partnerships at the local, regional and international level, in order to bring together a network of people for positive engagement, capacity building and change.

This document presents an integrated multidisciplinary programme offering Member States capacity building and technical advice to design and implement evidence - based climate change policies and projects at the local, national, regional and global levels.

We have established strong partnerships inter alia through regional capacity - building workshops in South and East Europe as well as most major regions across the globe, including China, India, West Africa, South and Central America.

The term regional advanced technology clusters means geographic centers focused on building science and technology - based innovation capacity in areas of local and regional strength to foster economic growth and improve quality of life.

Major underlying themes are convergence among regions, capacity building and increased cultural and social interactions, with a substantial reduction in regional differences in per capita income.

The Gambia also stands to benefit from the regional agenda of ECOWAS, whose priorities are focussed on five areas of intervention, notably, peace and security, infrastructure development, agriculture and resilience, common market and regional competiveness and capacity building.

The Clinic is part of a broader collaboration between Pace Law and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to expand the capacity of the legal community to provide direct services to individuals and organizations seeking to build a more sustainable and healthy regional food system.

CLM also works to build capacity at national and regional levels through library associations, and is the main intellectual resource for IFLA and its members when it comes to copyright and other legal issues for libraries.

Academics can provide critical advice to government, we build capacity at local and regional levels, we are skilled in doing needs analysis, in service gap assessments, in longitudinal studies, in quantitative and qualitative research in surveys, in reviews, evaluations, in cost benefit analysis.

Strategies such as the pooling of funds; increasing the flexibility of funding at the regional and local levels; developing longer term, cyclical funding options; capacity building and providing management support could all assist in the development of Indigenous governance structures.

[115] However, there are growing concerns that the type of regional agreements and governance structures endorsed particularly by the Commonwealth Government will fail to deliver meaningful recognition of Indigenous rights, effective community capacity building and meaningful governance structures.

The Commonwealth Government has also supported the role of regional agreements and capacity building in addressing Indigenous disadvantage.

Regional agreements and regional governance have been identified as a way in which Indigenous disadvantage may be addressed through the recognition of Indigenous rights and the capacity building of communities.