Sentences with phrase «empowering local communities»

Another panel member, Ben Schokman of the Human Rights Law Centre, reinforced the importance of supporting and empowering local communities to design and implement their own social programs for change, and gave some inspiring international case studies.

As governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders work to reduce emissions from deforestation, it's important that they recognize a win - win solution — empowering the local communities who call the forests home.

Tuy Sereivathana introduced innovative low - cost solutions to mitigate human - elephant conflict in Cambodia, empowering local communities to cooperatively participate in endangered Asian elephant conservation.

2010 Prize recipient Tuy Sereivathana, known as «Uncle Elephant,» introduced innovative low - cost solutions to mitigate human - elephant conflict in Cambodia, empowering local communities to cooperatively participate in endangered Asian elephant conservation.

Nearly every story of success involves empowering local communities and decentralizing forest management decisions, using methods such as indigenous reserves and community forestry management systems.

Our projects generate shared social value by creating local jobs, empowering local communities and igniting sustainability - driven innovation.

Committed to long - term, sustainable development in direct partnership with the Haitian people, the APJ model is simple: we believe in empowering local communities, fostering economic growth, and the power of education to change a nation.

We have also been able to help small communities in places like Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Thailand, Bulgaria, and Nicaragua by implementing clinics and empowering the local communities to continue such clinics once FARVets has left.

By empowering local communities to shape their own responses to the needs of their population, we draw them into believing in the solution.

There isn't enough of a focus on building and empowering local communities so people can come together and take charge of changing within their areas.

The Government's emphasis on empowering local communities will help those communities to find locally appropriate solutions to key issues such as affordable housing.

Empowering local communities to deal with more of their own problems may be more difficult there than here.

Cadiz CEO Scott Slater told me the project would empower the local community by adding 5,900 new local jobs without harming the environment.

WBENC celebrates Top Corporation honorees who successfully drive the sustainable inclusion of women - owned businesses within corporate and government supply chains and empowered local communities through economic growth and job creation.

«Chef Ramos has done an outstanding job cultivating creative food and beverage menus with an emphasis on sustainability and empowering our local community.»

That's where lawmakers decide on key legal and regulatory frameworks that allow for greater oversight over oil revenue and empower local communities.

Mr Brown continued: «We need responsible parents and empowered local communities working in partnership with our great public institutions - schools, colleges, children's centres - to provide a shared response.»

NCA is the national authority on multi-disciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, NCA's purpose is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

As the national authority on multidisciplinary approaches to supporting child victims of abuse, the purpose of National Children's Alliance is to empower local communities to provide comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate services to victims of child abuse.

«Participatory budgeting empowers local communities and strengthens the relationship between elected officials and the people they serve,» said Councilman Eric Ulrich.

A desire for devolution to extend deeper than the Cardiff Bay bubble, so that it can empower local communities, is a feature of the responses of the Assembly Group, voluntary party and of Christopher Salmon, Dyfed Powys Police & Crime Commissioner.

Here is a situation, I realized, where conservationists, activists, and anthropologists could join forces to empower the local community.

«While reforms like No Child Left Behind empower local communities with valuable information, this information is not enough to mobilize poor families, thus leaving behind the group that No Child Left Behind explicitly sought to help,» Holbein said.

Driven by three concerns — the global levels of poverty and malnutrition, the loss of our rainforests and the need to empower local communities to support themselves — Natural Nutrients capitalises on the resources of a living rainforest, providing local people with the tools and skills to produce nutritious food supplements from edible bugs.

She leads the CFF's grantmaking portfolio, which focuses on investing in local public schools, nonprofits that develop teachers and school leaders, and innovative organizations that empower the local community.

Our passionate team of parent leaders, education advocates and legal experts empowers local communities to strengthen their schools by pursuing common sense policy changes.

We partner with communities to improve access to health care, nutritious food and clean water; eliminate barriers to education; create new sources of income; and empower local community groups to lead their own positive change.

We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.

She is currently the Senior Manager of Policy Engagement at Rare, an international conservation organization that empowers local communities to become stewards of their natural resources so that both people and nature thrive.

We spoke to its mayor Ronaldo Golez about strategies to become more resilient and to empower local communities.

Its holistic standard, Gold Standard for the Global Goals, enables activities that protect the climate and empower local communities to maximise, quantify, and verify their impacts.

«Decentralisation can empower local communities, firms and local communities, who produce energy through wind and solar installations of their own.

The court's ruling empowered local communities to have the final say in mining projects on their land, and gave village councils from the Niyamgiri Hills the right to vote on the Vedanta mine.

Federal policies must provide resources to empower local communities across America to play our part in solving the climate challenge.

Empower local communities to maintain clean water practices by establishing a permanent hygiene and sanitation knowledge base and training program

Grassroots groups engaging in and training for direct action such as the Tar Sands Blockade, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, the Unist» ot» en Camp, and Moccasins on the Ground have shown us how direct action can empower local communities and push establishment green groups to embrace bolder tactics.

While we must name and acknowledge power holders like Obama, our movement must empower local communities to make decisions and take action on the causes of the climate crisis in their backyards.

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SEP fosters the brilliance of these women; empowering them to exercise their ingenuity and influence in advancing the business and local community landscapes — unleashing innovative WBEs into the economy.»

She also aims to empower the local entrepreneurship ecosystem by developing activities between our entrepreneurs and the Chilean community.

CDP Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund grants have helped rebuild the capacity of local organizations and empowered them to serve their communities at a time of great need.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

He is the creative director of Create Culture and the founder of SOUNDS LIKE A MOVEMENT, a non-profit that empowers people to engage their local communities.

Our Madagascan vanilla sustainability programme is making a real difference through agricultural best practice advice, empowering local women, crop security measures and ensuring education for farming community children.

In our continued spirit of American entrepreneurialism, we have launched Towne Park Systems to enable us to serve more markets throughout the US, empower more leaders, start more businesses, create more jobs, and better serve more local communities.

Our sustainability programme in Madagascar is making a real difference through agricultural best practice advice, empowering local women, crop security measures and ensuring education for farming community children.

For every delivery, we empower a family in need by providing access to affordable fruits & veggies through our Produce in a SNAP program and through donations to local community organizations.

«Together, with our national benefactors plus the support of the local business community and volunteers, we can meet our mission of providing a welcoming space that celebrates, nurtures and empowers the LGBT community and our friends and neighbors in South Florida while setting an example for other national organizations.»

They work tirelessly to support the local community by empowering families to thrive.

We are a diverse community of local moms connecting to support and empower each other in all aspects of life.