Sentences with phrase «capacity of developing countries»

It documents current activities and initiatives and makes a set of recommendations for strengthening the capacity of developing countries to make beneficial use of ICTs to mitigate and adapt to environmental change, including climate change.

Knowledge initiatives and programs that address GPE's thematic areas and enhance the capacity of developing country partners to meet their education goals.

The Convention calls on Parties to promote and cooperate in research, systematic observation and the development of data archives, including through exchange of information; to support programmes, networks and organizations; and improve the capacities of developing countries (Articles 4.1 (g, h) and 5).

«Support shall be provided for the building of transparency - related capacity of developing country Parties on a continuous basis.»

Not exact matches

The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.

Case Study 2: Crop Health Capacity Building in Least Developed Countries — A Unique Approach Ms Madaline Healey, Researcher, University of the Sunshine Coast

HETV works within the existing health framework of developing countries to establish and promote health educational programs that will provide rapid and long - term capacity - building to improve health and quality of life, and will give mothers and communities more control over their health status.

«As much as we want restructuring; we want true federalism; I am committed to it but talking about Nigeria, the west has potentials; we have the capacity to develop this country and with Lagos on the driver's seat, we can save the whole of this country.

«While one may think of science diplomacy as the domain of rich countries with advanced scientific capacities,» Holt said, «in fact, the intersection of science and diplomacy may be even more important in developing regions.

The 23 - page report further warns that the country's «current vaccine development and production capacity is severely lacking,» adding that «the country has not developed or adequately tested a system that will ensure that all Americans would be able to be inoculated in a short period of time.»

«If we don't have an AMC, we're going to have lifesaving pneumococcal vaccines developed for rich countries but there's not going to be enough capacity to supply them to the poor countries,» says Orin Levine, executive director of PneumoADIP at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

It has also partnered with the ACME Group in India to develop roughly one gigawatt of power tower capacity in that country.

M. - P.K.: They needed to be developing countries that do not have H1N1 vaccine manufacturing capacity of their own and that do not have a purchase agreement.

-- The term «most vulnerable developing countries» means, as determined by the Administrator of USAID, developing countries that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, considering the approaches included in any international treaties and agreements.

These impacts can be particularly damaging in developing countries, which often lack the resources and technical capacity to effectively prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change.

To assure the vitality and continued productivity of the research enterprise, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) provides leadership in training the next generation of scientists, in enhancing the diversity of the scientific workforce and in developing research capacities throughout the country.

Moving the Needle provides quarterly updates from PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) on our vaccine development efforts, as well as related supporting work, such as developing human challenge models, building capacity of developing - country vaccine manufacturers, and evaluating new adjuvants and other novel vaccine technologies.

We are also developing farmers - in - school, basically to develop the capacity of the farmers in rice production, because if you do a comparative analysis of yield per hectare for farmers, you will notice that that the yield is not comparative with other countries in the world.

Fundamental to his efforts is a desire to build research capacity around ethics in developing countries, and to lead a team of experts to conduct breakthrough research to understand the current state of research ethics and health systems development around the world.

USAID's investments have been put to work by IAVI to enable both AIDS vaccine research and the cultivation of scientific and technical capacity at clinical research centers in developing countries that conduct vaccine trials in partnership with the organization.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

17.19 by 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement GDP, and support statistical capacity building in developing countries

17.18 by 2020, enhance capacity building support to developing countries, including for LDCs and SIDS, to increase significantly the availability of high - quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

a increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacities and transfer marine technology taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular SIDS and LDCs

d strengthen the capacity of all countries, particularly developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction, and management of national and global health risks.

a support developing countries to strengthen their scientific and technological capacities to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production

And unlike the case in other countries, where higher education is essentially vocational or professional, American colleges and universities offered liberal arts education — a broad set of courses which developed analytic, creative and communicative capacities.

For Katiusca Moreno, achieving what we want for young people in this country goes hand in hand with developing the leadership capacity of adults and teams.

The NYC Leadership Academy is a nationally recognized 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that prepares and supports passionate, high - quality educators to lead schools that accelerate student learning and that increases the capacity of systems across the country to develop and support such educational leaders.

Alomost no developed country will require additional grid generation or distribution capacity to serve a full fleet of smart charged EVs charged mostly overnight.

Secondly, the developed countries will need to provide the financing, technology transfer and capacity building to support developing countries to adequately address the challenge of climate change.»

In order to meet the scale of financial resources required -LCB- and the commitments under Articles -LCB- 4.1 -RCB-, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 -RCB- to support enhanced action on adaptation and mitigation by developing country Parties and for technology cooperation and capacity - building, developed country Parties -LCB- and Annex II Parties -RCB--LCB- and other Parties according to agreed eligibility criteria, which shall be updated through a periodic review -RCB--LCB- shall -RCB- provide scaled - up, new and additional, -LCB- over and above -LCB- existing -RCB- ODA -RCB-, sustainable, adequate, predictable and stable financial resources, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner.

An International Tribunal of Climate Justice is hereby established to address cases of non-compliance with the commitments of developed country Parties on mitigation, adaptation, provision of finance, technology development and transfer, capacity - building, and transparency of action and support, including through the development of an indicative list of consequences, taking into account the cause, type, degree and frequency of non-compliance.]

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

Assert that the achievement of carbon neutrality by developing countries will be extremely difficult given their lack of resources and capacity and pressing adaptation challenges, without external financial, technological and capability - building support from developed countries,

«China's focus on increasing domestic capacity in this realm is a probable prelude to the rollout of such products in international markets, an eventuality that has been seen now for many decades with Chinese hydro technology, particularly in developing countries.»

While various studies in the valley and nation have focused on ways to enhance regional food systems and distribution of produce grown on local farms, this is the first study in the Northeast, and likely the country, to develop a comprehensive, data - driven methodology for strategically protecting the farmland — the most fundamental ingredient for securing the productive capacity of the metropolitan region's foodshed.

Even ignoring for a moment the injustice of asking all developing countries to «contribute» exclusively via emissions reductions, such action could only ever be undertaken if the money, technology, and capacity was there to do so.

Several of the national governments profiled are also party to the World Bank's new Partnership for Market Readiness, a capacity - building trust fund to assist developing countries that wish to take on GHG reduction targets.

The Office will support the development of climate models and projections of future climate, facilitate cooperation between regions and countries, and promote knowledge exchange and capacity building with a particular focus on developing regions.

The UNFCCC should work closely with non-Annex I countries to develop suitable guidelines that are within the capacities of the various Parties.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

The UNFCCC principle of «common but differentiated responsibilities» [ii] means Australia, as a developed country and high per - capita emitter, has the obligation and capacity to lead.

However, most of the key technological innovations have not reached many of the developing countries and vulnerable communities, particularly those in Southeast Asia; therefore, it is important that the region has the capacity and knowledge needed to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of the changing environment and assessments such as the TNA workshop is indispensable.

In particular, the paper assesses 18 selected approaches, methods and tools in terms of their data and information requirements, strengths, weaknesses, lessons learned, gaps at different levels and relevance for social and environmental impacts, as well as discussing capacity needs for applying risk assessment methods in developing countries.

The report is also intended to improve the understanding of the potential benefits and challenges for developing countries to design FITs as well as the factors influencing their success, more in depth from the policy and legal foci, whilst also analysing the funding and capacity implications.

It concludes that, while there are governance constraints at the global level, African countries need to work, with the support of developed countries, towards stimulating effective domestic demand for climate adaptation and mitigation funds and improving the absorptive capacity of African countries to effectively deploy climate funds.

Developing countries often have less capacity and resources to reduce emissions, adapt to climate impacts, and manage the uncertainty of climate risk, whilst they are confronted with pressing development challenges.

This activity report explores ways to adapt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to the unique circumstances, capacities and levels of development of the Asia - Pacific least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States, collectively referred to as countries with special needs (CSN).