Sentences with phrase «enhance government capacity»

World Bank: The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved funding of a project that aims to enhance government capacity to mitigate climate - related hazards in Nepal by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate - vulnerable communities.

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WBENC's robust workshops focus on what WBEs need to know to enhance their positions as suppliers: how to hone skills that are sought - after by their clients, leverage existing expertise for greater growth, and build their capacity to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of major corporations and government entities.

The outbreak of infectious diseases like SARS and bird flu in Asia in recent years has increased the urgency of Canadian governments at all levels to enhance their capacity to cope with possible future outbreaks in this country.

Companies like Caterpillar earn billions in revenue from Canadian resource developments. Yet Caterpillar is under no compulsion to produce anything in Canada. To the contrary, our governments gave Caterpillar carte blanche to take over and then shut down important productive assets. They will continue to supply our resource projects from outside the country, unless and until we implement a strategy to enhance our capacity to do this important, valuable work ourselves.

Idris added:» Nigerian Government had offered slots for police officers from the Gambia and Sierra Leone in the Police Staff College Jos and the Police Academy, Wudil, for Police Officers to enhance capacities in the middle level manpower development Cadre of the Police institutions in these countries between 2001 to 2007.

Cities Farming for the Future (CFF), a major 4 - year programme, enhanced the capacities of staff of local government, NGOs and universities and of leaders of urban producer groups; it facilitated multi-stakeholder diagnosis, policy formulation, and action planning and implementation on intra - and periurban agriculture in 20 major cities in 17 countries.

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These training manuals consists of five complementary modules, which aim to enhance the capacity of Arab Governments to incorporate Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) tools into economic strategies, policies and plans in order to adapt to climate change.

In this area, the key objectives of the UN System are: to promote active climate change collaboration of local governments and their associations in global, regional and national networks; to enhance policy dialogue so that the urban dimension of climate change is firmly established on the agenda; and to foster the implementation of awareness, education, and capacity building strategies.

Aware of this, UN agencies support Governments and partners to: enhance realization of women's equal rights and empowerment, including in decision ‐ making processes, and increase effectiveness of interventions related to climate change through use of gender analysis, enhanced capacity, and holistic strategies.

This major 4 - year programme enhanced the capacities of staff of local government, NGOs and universities and of leaders of urban producer groups; it facilitated multi-stakeholder diagnosis, policy formulation, and action planning and implementation on intra - and periurban agriculture in 20 major cities in 17 countries.

RUAF contributes by enhancing the capacities of local authorities and other stakeholders and facilitating the integration of (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture and city - region food measures in the policies and action programmes of local, regional and national governments, civic society organisations and private enterprises, with active involvement of the urban producers and other relevant stakeholders.

The PROVE programme of Brasilia FD stimulated the urban producers to establish producer associations and their capacities were enhanced to gradually replace the government officers in their supporting role.

Indeed, many of those who most strongly advocate against the kinds of government spending that would enhance our long - term weather prediction capacity fall into political associations that are strongly associated with climate «skepticism.»

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There are also many organisations, both government and non-government working at the local, regional and national levels to strength and enhance Indigenous capacity.