Sentences with phrase «effective government problem»

Through its research, education, international programs, and government innovations awards, the Institute fosters creative and effective government problem solving and serves as a catalyst for addressing many of the most pressing needs of the world's citizens.

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With the government acting as a venture capitalist, the private sector can create effective new programs to address social problems.

The problem of authority was bound in any event to arise in a period when the Jerusalem Church had ceased to be an effective force and the apostles had passed away; the development of a stable form of church government had become a matter of urgency, and in settled churches where the first enthusiasm had often become lukewarm (Revel.

The Family Online Safety Institute was pleased to take part in this week's #WePROTECT Children Online summit to tackle online child exploitation, hosted by the UK government.FOSI supports the multi-stakeholder approach being pursued by bringing together governments, charities, law enforcement and leaders in industry to work together in developing effective initiatives to combat this problem.

By building a more detailed profile of claimants» underlying problems, using information available to other government departments, segmentation tools developed in the private sector and testing new incentives and flexibilities for Jobcentre Plus staff, we can begin to develop a more effective approach.

Governments have to find a more effective way to deal with this problem.

«Joel had his share of problems at home,» the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate said, «but he was very effective at pointing out problems with state government and the culture of Albany, and how that affected local governments in a negative way.»

I think it's been a good and effective government, we have sorted out some of the most fundamental problems this country faces.

Parliament needs to play its full part in addressing these problems and should not be denied effective means to do so by any government.

The next Secretary - General must be able to convey to governments — and people — that the line between global and national challenges has disappeared, that even traditionally domestic problems like job creation now have an international dimension, and that an effective UN is therefore in everyone's national interest.

«The Coalition Government's decision to roll back on changes designed to tackle poor pupil behaviour and truancy could prevent many schools from developing effective and sustainable solutions to these problems.

«It will be a national embarrassment if our judges are compelled to decide this, since the judges like every citizen have a right to an effective remedy and they will be perfectly entitled to approach the court for reliefs if your government does not urgently find satisfactory solutions to this problem.»

Whilst all four countries are experiencing high levels of fuel poverty the Monitor identifies a number of particular difficulties being faced by vulnerable households in the individual countries calling on the need for Government to provide a more concise and effective plan to tackle the problem.

«It will be yet another government initiative that proves more effective at getting a headline than solving a problem.»

Governments around the world have increasingly turned to behavioral science to help address various policy problems — new research shows that some of the best - known strategies derived from behavioral science, commonly referred to as «nudges,» may be extremely cost effective.

Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna agreed that effective evaluation systems are powerful, and said he has no problem with the federal government requiring them, but that it should stop short of defining or regulating such systems and leave those decisions to the states.

But the Helmholtz team decided to look at the bigger picture: although climate scientists have repeatedly warned that the only safe answer is to reduce — and go on reducing — fossil fuel emissions, and although governments have acknowledged the urgency of the problem, very few really effective steps have been taken.

The document also boldly states «That adaptation as needed is massively more cost - effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.»

However, he noted that for the plan to be effective, other changes across the board have to be made, citing the example of free electricity given to farmers who add to the problem by overdrawing the supply of groundwater through electrical pump sets.On top of privatization measures, Singh encouraged local governments to take an active role in determining local needs and strategies for water conservation, drawing on the large South Indian metropolis of Chennai as a prime example: «We have the impressive example of Chennai city that had a city - based, neighbourhood - based strategy.

«The problem here and in other jurisdictions is criminal justice resourcing and reforms [are] piecemeal at best, but I would say chaotic describes how governments have funded and implemented reforms to the criminal justice system to make it more efficient and effective, and it seems to be one of the poor boys on the budget priority list in most provinces,» he says.

This approach is not effective to deal with what government faces in the context of «wicked» problems and complex adaptive social systems (think homelessness, hunger, poverty, climate change, family justice).

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

«An effective lasting solution to a complex problem such as this is going to require a collaborative approach with government, civil society, subject matter experts and multiple industries,» Deborah Albers, vice president of social and environmental sustainability at the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition, told TechNewsWorld.

The lack of effective connections between the regional and national level was identified as the central problem with the operation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), and a key reason cited by the Government for its abolition.

He identified as a challenge «closing the gap» between the expectations of government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in order to avoid the credibility problems of previous bodies, to ensure that it has influence with government and is an effective agent of change for communities.

Using the experience of the Fitzroy Valley communities, the Report examines the ways in which these communities have taken control of spiralling alcohol - fuelled social and health problems, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, to offer governments around the nation a tried and effective model to reform the way they do business.