Sentences with phrase «developing agency capacity»

The Evidence Team collaborates with other OMB offices on setting research priorities and appropriate evaluation methodologies, embedding findings from research and other forms of evidence into program design, and developing agency capacity to build and use evidence.

Not exact matches

«We are trying to get the entire system up to speed, but we are also developing specialized capacity and identifying certain facilities, certain workers where we can,» Cuomo said during a news conference in Manhattan, alongside several agency heads.

At the same time, a peaceful world can never be achieved if too many regions remain impoverished, which is why the State Department, often through its Agency for International Development, has worked to bolster the science and engineering capacity of developing nations.

Governments in the developing world are also now pooling their resources into sovereign insurance funds that make payouts for climate adaptation programs, said Fatima Kassam of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Co., a specialized agency of the African Union.

, «where science meets art», which promotes creativity in learning by working with young people to reveal, develop and exercise their capacity for creativity and creative thinking, or the Unlimited Theatre who have also been collaborating with the UK Space Agency ahead of Tim Peake's mission to the International Space Station later this year.

This framework proposes that people of all ages can foster their own agency and empowerment, and become more sensitive to the designed dimensions of the world around them, by developing three core maker capacities: the ability to look closely, explore complexity, and find opportunity.

Proving Ground has developed an innovative approach to supplement agencies» capacity to effectively analyze their data to address educational improvement challenges.

Our work is aimed not only at developing new and more targeted tools and approaches for addressing the region's priority needs, but also building the capacity of state and local education agencies to use evidence in making decisions that move us toward a more efficient, effective, and equitable education system.

As part of Agency by Design's work, the research team began to wonder: What thinking routines could we borrow and expand on from other Project Zero initiatives, and what thinking routines could we develop ourselves, that would cultivate the three primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity?

In his current position with the Texas Comprehensive Center, he works to build the capacity of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to develop, implement, and sustain various education initiatives, policies, and programs.

To achieve this vision, NCSI's overarching goal is to provide technical assistance that builds State Education Agency and Lead Agency capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate their State Systemic Improvement Plan and support local programs in improving educational results and functional outcomes for children with disabilities.

To assist Texas Education Agency (TEA) staff to build capacity for these efforts, TXCC is helping them plan and coordinate stakeholder engagement meetings and develop and analyze surveys for public input.

«Attendance Works has been an indispensable thought partner with Connecticut as we build state agency capacity, develop resources and implement statewide strategies to improve attendance.»

Several other cities have been developing additional data capacity in support of this work, including creating MOUs to share data across agencies, surveying students about their school connectedness, asking families about the barriers they face in accessing preschool, and making use of data collected through a programmatic partnership to improve their understanding of community and individual student needs.

At the request of a local or state education agency, the IDRA EAC - South can help schools and communities develop the capacity to offer innovative, asset - based solutions in meeting the educational needs of traditionally underserved students and communities.

CCSSO State Education Agency (SEA) Common Core Implementation: Progress and Capacity Rubric: This capacity rubric and process was developed to support state education agencies to implement the College - and Career - Ready StCapacity Rubric: This capacity rubric and process was developed to support state education agencies to implement the College - and Career - Ready Stcapacity rubric and process was developed to support state education agencies to implement the College - and Career - Ready Standards.

Working closely with relevant U.S. departments and agencies, DoD has undertaken environmental security cooperative initiatives with foreign militaries that represent a nonthreatening way of building trust, sharing best practices on installations management and operations and developing response capacity.

The lessons learned benefit local climate - change - mitigation practitioners, donor agencies, and international institutions involved in capacity building or in the design and implementation of mitigation actions in developing countries.

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Government plans stipulate to triple the 2017 capacity by 2030 and the agency estimates that ultimately up to 15 percent of Germany's North Sea area could be needed for developing offshore wind power.

Strategies to Increase Birth Parent Engagement, Partnership, and Leadership in the Child Welfare System: A Review (PDF - 438 KB) Casey Family Programs (2012) Explores barriers and proactive strategies to engaging birth parents with child welfare services and referrals for services, developing connections between birth and foster parents, utilizing birth parents as agency partners, and drawing on birth parent experience in an advisory capacity at the organizational level.

This is resource intensive for the Australian Government agencies, and reduces the time available to spend with Indigenous organisations dealing with their needs and problems, and assisting them in developing their own organisational capacity.

I know there are a range of regional and local plans being developed now, particularly as Taskforces and reviews wind up, that have not included universities, or institutes, or any research agency that has the capacity to provide some thought leadership on issues affecting our communities.

The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families (Resource Center) helps agencies develop the capacity to promote healthy relationship skills in a way that meets both their needs and those of the families they serve.

Capacity building: Facilitate self - determination and self - sufficiency develop community capacity to engage agencies effectively on needs and service delivery and enhance capacity and governance in community organiCapacity building: Facilitate self - determination and self - sufficiency develop community capacity to engage agencies effectively on needs and service delivery and enhance capacity and governance in community organicapacity to engage agencies effectively on needs and service delivery and enhance capacity and governance in community organicapacity and governance in community organisations.

assisting agencies to address key barriers to the employment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees, by identifying pathways to employment that allow Indigenous people to develop the required skills and capacity to work within the APS;