Sentences with phrase «create policy environments»

More recent trends in philanthropic investment rely more on a change - oriented and data - driven approach, with increased focus on disrupting traditional institutions and structures and research and advocacy efforts to create policy environments supportive of reform.

States changed laws and regulations in an attempt to create policy environments that were more conducive to innovation and improvement.

The white paper highlights the importance of creating policy environments that grant innovative educators autonomy, enabling them to design and implement models based on affordable quality and personalization.

Taken together, these factors create a policy environment in which whole language seems unlikely to flourish as the mainstream approach to teaching reading and writing.

I think we should be asking ourselves how to create a policy environment that fosters the proliferation of such schools.

Not exact matches

But if someone like [Fed governor Jerome] Powell gets in, with policies similar to [current Fed chair Janet] Yellen's, that would appease the stock market and create a better environment for them going forward.

«Reclassification, even if successful, would resolve no existing problem and would almost certainly end the massive private investment in Internet infrastructure that has gone on since 1996, when Congress created a light - touch regulatory environment for Internet access and related services,» Larry Downes, an Internet industry analyst and a director at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy, says.

The 2016 Global Innovation Index, which is an annual ranking of the innovation capabilities and performance of economies around the world, focuses on national policies, but it's individual leaders who can make a difference by driving innovation within organizations and creating a conducive environment for innovation to thrive.

Li sees reforms to China's strict immigration policies as a necessary way to create a better environment for entrepreneurship and innovation to flourish in the country, which saw its economy grow larger than expected in 2017.

The relaxed environment will create bonds that go deeper than the company's latest accounting policies.

Uncertainty around the policy path of President - elect Trump, coupled with a changing interest rate landscape and rising PBGC premiums create a challenging environment for plan sponsors.

Roper and other consumer advocates argue that conflicted advice is deeply engrained in the brokerage business model, echoing the concerns outlined in a recent leaked White House policy memo in which officials concluded that «the current regulatory environment creates perverse incentives that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars a year» in the form of unnecessary rollovers of 401 (k) plans into costly IRAs, and «excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets.»

By advocating for policy changes, the Council seeks to create an economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.

This policy has contributed to creating a more stable economic environment relative to that of previous decades and has allowed households and businesses to make better long - term financial plans.

Good macroeconomic policies can, we trust, make some difference at the margin by creating a stable environment in which others can carry out the important work to understand and address these real problems.

Through policies such as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, rescinding the Clean Power Plan, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline and removing countless Obama era regulations on energy production, the Trump Administration has created an environment which fosters energy independence and growth rather than stifling it.

In regard to economic policy, the Party promises to create a low cost environment for business by permanently keeping levels of taxation low, enacting a Red Tape Review (similar to the one in British Columbia) to aid small business, and eliminating health care premiums.

As one of only seven tech companies selected, we are proud of our policies and practices that have helped us create an environment of inclusiveness.

Take the 1 in 3 Campaign, for example, whose mission is to «start a new conversation about abortion» and to «create a more enabling cultural environment for the policy and legal work of the abortion rights movement.»

The point is to create a shared vocabulary and a shared understanding of policy and the political environment that will allow future candidates to talk to this group without sounding like space aliens.

As urban policy analysts John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum observe, for example, Houston would seem from a conservative's viewpoint to have been a near - perfect environment for creating affordable housing in the «80s.

The Catholic Church in England and Wales said the Office for Migration Policy will prioritise its work with the UK Government and other partners to create welcoming environments and provide well - resourced community sponsorship programmes in parishes.

Additionally, every job description for managers and supervisors should include requirements regarding knowledge and proper enforcement of the anti-harassment policies and procedures, and caution that nonemployees such as customers, diners and guests can also create a hostile work environment for employees.

As the largest public policy association for California wine, and the only group representing the industry at the state, federal and international levels, Wine Institute's Officers, Board of Directors and professional staff work to create an environment where the wine community can flourish and contribute in a positive fashion to our nation, state and local communities.

This policy is intended to create a safe environment for all who visit the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel by providing appropriate guidance over the custody of firearms on the premises.

Sustainable chocolate is as much about governments creating an enabling policy environment and enforcing legislation, NGOs creating awareness and consumers making sustainable choices, as it is about industry commitment and investment.

«In order to regulate the transfer market of foreign players and guide clubs towards making rational investments as well as creating a healthy environment for Chinese football, the CFA will maintain the levy fee policy in relation to buying new players,» the statement added.

I'm a firm believer that strong policies covering all food served at school (from the cafeteria to the classroom) are crucial to creating a healthy school environment.

The Department has also produced Healthy School Nutrition Environment - Establishing a Local School Wellness Policy, which not only provides background information on federal and state requirements but also the necessary components and steps necessary to create and implement a pPolicy, which not only provides background information on federal and state requirements but also the necessary components and steps necessary to create and implement a policypolicy.

To avoid the mixed messages and create a supportive environment, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund set up the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative to encourage hospitals to have a written breast - feeding policy.

Safe Kids Connecticut is a multi-faceted organization that works to reduce death and injury rates of children through community education, public policy change, creating safe environments, and conducting research.

In an updated policy statement and technical report, the AAP is expanding its guidelines on safe sleep for babies, with additional information for parents on creating a safe environment for their babies to sleep.

The American Academy of Pediatrics set the guideline for its physicians as part of updated policies to create safer sleep environments for babies and reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

«Water maybe has always been insufficiently available, but schools have a unique and special responsibility to create an environment that makes it easy for students to make good choices,» says Sharp of the California Food Policy Advocates.

The CIP includes action areas for Member States, WHO and other actors and recommends «to create a supportive environment for the implementation of comprehensive food and nutrition policies» and calls for Member States to «establish a dialogue with relevant national and international parties and form alliances and partnerships to expand nutrition actions with the establishment of adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest».

While it is quite true that some of the shackles on growth are outside of the control of domestic economic policy, such as the continuing eurozone crisis and imported inflation, government does have a role to create the best possible environment for businesses to thrive and grow.

I'm trying to create jobs in an environment of economic development policy that actually helps people,» he said.

He urged the NCA, to encourage public access by creating an enabling environment in the adoption of policies and strategies that focus not only on spurring connectivity, but on entrepreneurship and cross-border information flows.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for thcreating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for thCreating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

At the time he said within a short space of time, the Ghanaian worker will experience improved wages, reduced cost of living, increased job opportunities, with a value addition in industrialisation to create jobs with good pay across Ghana, while maintaining a safe and peaceful worker environment necessary for the progressive programmes and policies that the NPP have for the people of Ghana.

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

The main reason of collapse of USSR from our direct point of view was that socialist policies imposed on the society and foregoing economical inefficiencies as a result, created an environment in which you had money, but you couldn't buy anything for it.

The president and congress seem poised to make drastic cuts to programs that help millions of New Yorkers, and create a hostile environment for the state's four million immigrants,» said Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute.

If that doesn't sound rushed, consider this: In her comments at a hearing in Port Jefferson last August, Citizens Campaign for the Environment executive director Adrienne Esposito said, «The Dredged Material Management Plan took over 10 years and $ 7 million to create, yet stakeholders were given seven days before being asked to attend public hearings and comment on a plan that will drive policy for the next 30 years.»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stripped Kellner of his leadership positions and perks after an ethics panel found that he violated the chamber's sexual harassment policy and created a hostile working environment.

They expressed concern in the UN creating environment policies instead of the towns themselves.

Her record in Congress is unrivaled in fighting for policies that will keep upstate businesses upstate and create an environment for growth,» said Eileen Braden, Vice President of Political Affairs and Federation Relations at the U.S. Chamber said, «Through her support of transportation reforms and removing regulatory burdens, she's ensured that businesses like D.A. Collins can hire and continue to create economic opportunities in North Country.»

I want to try and create jobs and an environment and economic policy that helps people out.

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) to create an enabling environment for businesses and entrench measures and strategies aimed at promoting transparency and efficiency;

She added: «It was only when I was reviewing the papers of the Stephen Lawrence case, the tribunal, and looking at what the description of institutional racism is, and as I've been reading and listening to all of the stories around Windrush, it occurred to me that the policies that this Prime Minister - and it lays only at the door of Theresa May - that her policies where she wanted to create a hostile environment, has actually created an environment that disproportionately affects and discriminates people of colour and therefore could be classified as institutionally racist.