Sentences with phrase «ensuring improved access to»
While each budget paper on Indigenous policy notes the «record amount» that is allocated to Indigenous - specific programs and generally highlights the commitment of the Government to ensuring improved access to programs and services, at no stage do they specifically identify the reduction of the disparities in enjoyment of rights between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people as the purpose of the expenditure.
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The Committee also recommends that the State party introduce higher taxes on junk foods and sugary drinks and consider adopting strict regulations on the marketing of such products, while ensuring improved access to healthy diets.
Strategies: Supporting the establishment of Indigenous childcare centres; ensure improved access to Mother and Child Welfare Services.
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The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.
In particular, attention should be paid to what could be done to capitalize on the recent stabilization in house prices to improve access to mortgage credit and to foster competition in mortgage origination to ensure a more complete pass - through of low secondary mortgage rates to households.
Access to the convection fan has also improved, allowing a person to more easily clean the fan blade to ensure steady airflow.
Investments in technology and access to data to improve tracking of international organic trade will provide the necessary information to ensure a transparent marketplace.
«The committee applauds the progress made to date, but a range of issues still need to be addressed, from ensuring farmers have access to all tools to improve productivity to building sustainable agricultural systems,» said Senator Daschle.
The D.C. School Food Project's mission is to support and accelerate the school system's progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation's capital.
We also made strides in improving the summer meal program to ensure children have access to meals when school is out for the summer and made investments in programs like Farm to School and infrastructure updates in kitchens and cafeterias to help serve more fresh, healthy foods!
Ensuring quality, inspiring demand and improving access to school food is a three-fold effort to address public health concerns resulting from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity among D.C. school children and their families.
Programs that promote breastfeeding and ensure access to nutritious foods, such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the school meals and summer feeding programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and child care food assistance, improve health outcomes, school achievement, and workforce competitiveness.
Ensuring that pregnant women have access to at least four antenatal visits and improving access to emergency services when needed have been identified as key areas of focus in the fight to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes in the targeted countries.
It should also mean ensuring people can access treatment at the earliest possible opportunity, to improve their chances of recovering.
The Deputy Head of Macroeconomic Research Unit, Ministry of Finance, Dr. Millicent deGraft - Johnson who spoke on the governments short to medium - term development programme said it was aimed at providing opportunities for growth and job creation through the private sector, and had developed concrete reform actions to tackle key challenges to private investment such as ensuring macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability, improving the ease of doing business and enhancing access to affordable and long - term financing and de-risking instruments.
Ditto the goals of ensuring universal access to primary education or to improve maternal health.
We also need to improve the quality of, and access to, energy advice and services; recognise the impact that welfare reform is having on fuel poverty levels in the UK; and ensure that all households are able to engage in the competitive energy market.
«In addition to ensuring that there is space in the curriculum to address these issues, schools need improved access and quality provision of safeguarding training that specifically addresses the issue of sexual violence and harassment.
Today I join Governor Cuomo in calling on Congress to work together in a bipartisan way to improve, not slash, our healthcare and to ensure everyone has access to quality care.
«The idea is to improve public service by helping to ensure that transit riders have access to the safest, most reliable and most efficient modes of transportation possible.
The state should encourage high - performing colleges to improve access by enrolling more low - income students, and it should ensure equitable per - student support for the institutions that serve students with the greatest needs.
«From improving access to healthcare treatments and services, to removing barriers to employment, all five of these bills take important steps to ensure that veterans have every opportunity to continue succeeding when they return home.»
The blueprint released today adds 30 additional points, which includes routine HIV testing, monitoring and improving rates of viral suppression, ensuring access to stable housing, reducing HIV infections among homeless youth and increasing employment opportunities and access.
«We are all shocked that the governor vetoed a bill that would have reduced racial disparities in the criminal justice system, helped ensure equal access to justice for all New Yorkers, provided improved public defense programs for those who can not afford an attorney, and much - needed mandate relief for counties,» Gradess said.
The State will continue to work closely with all stakeholders to ensure that this project meets the needs of the community while improving access to area shopping and dining attractions.
While reiterating the commitment of the State Government under Governor Ambode to ensure that every child is given opportunity to succeed, Bank - Olemoh said the launch of the Digital Library, dubbed EducateLagos.com, was intended to further expand access to knowledge for Lagosians, make learning fun and contribute to improving exam outcomes for students.
The bill hopes to improve local planning of services by bolstering information about people with autism, improve inter-agency working for those moving from child to adult services and ensure access to appropriate support and services for people with autism in adult life.
«As we mark World Water Day today, we are happy to reiterate our company's commitment to invest in quality and affordable water management products that will help ensure that more Ghanaians have improved access to clean water always no matter where you live».
«Whether it's improved working conditions, ensuring access to top of the line equipment and technology, or supporting the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Reauthorization Act, I look forward to advancing the needs of firefighters and the New Yorkers they protect, as a strong voice in Congress.»
Just this past year, legislative changes show New Yorkers can make a difference: by raising the age of criminal responsibility, enacting bail reform, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving witness identification procedures and requiring video - taped police interrogation for serious offenses.
EDUCATION: Enhance and expand early childhood programming and improve access to food at school to ensure no student goes hungry.
«This comprehensive package - the most progressive set of reforms in the nation — will guarantee fairness for the accused by reshaping New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving the disclosure of evidence in the discovery process, transforming asset forfeiture procedures and implementing new initiatives to help individuals transition from incarceration to their communities.»
Launch the «New York Promise» Agenda to Advance Social Justice and Affirm New York's Progressive Values - Reforms of the Criminal Justice System including «overhauling New York's antiquated bail system, ensuring access to a speedy trial, raising the age of criminal responsibility, improving witness identification procedures, recording police interrogations for serious offenses, and extending the Hurrell - Harring settlement reforms statewide.»
The budget also includes $ 17 million for the Mayor's Equity & Excellence plan, to improve college access, and $ 9 million to ensure elementary schools comply with state physical education mandates.
The Cocoa Roads Project aims at improving road networks in cocoa communities with the view to ensuring access to remote cocoa areas as well as creating a congenial environment to promote the livelihoods of cocoa farmers.
«Understanding these challenges is critical to improving access to ART today and to helping ensure patients who travel across borders to receive ART treatment receive high - quality care.»
The researchers conclude that improved monitoring and access to water withdrawal and streamflow data are needed to ensure protection of streams as drinking water sources and valuable habitat in the future.
Once a drug is developed and on the market what the Global Fund does is try to improve access to that drug for the poorest of poor by using advance purchasing or using commitments to try to ensure the availability of that drug on a large scale.
Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).
Ensuring there are enough qualified workers and better participating of under - represented groups in STEM - related jobs will take providing better pre-college education, increased access to college education and STEM training, and improved tracking of science and engineering workers, experts told a AAAS audience.
That includes boosting education for doctors and patients, improving research efforts to discover the various roots of chronic pain, and helping government agencies work together better to ensure that people can get access to medications that they need — as well as improve the odds that new ones will be available in the future.
The Commission makes five recommendations regarding neural modification: first, to prioritize existing strategies to maintain or improve neural health, such as diet, and adequate exercise and sleep; to prioritize the treatment of neurological disorders; to study neural modifiers and examine their prevalence, benefits and risks; to ensure equitable access so individuals of all socioeconomic levels can access the benefits of these advancements; and fifth, to create guidance on the use of neural modifiers.
Telehealth, where patients and caregivers can communicate remotely either by phone or video conference, improves access for patients and offers efficient oversight to ensure the patient is stable.
One particular goal is to improve career access, advancement and conditions for women to ensure a gender balance in leadership positions.
«I am deeply committed to improving schools to ensure that all of our students have access to educational opportunities that can help them actualize their potential so that they can fulfill their dreams.
The Department for Education will target its programmes to ensure children get the best start in the early years, to build teaching and leadership capacity in schools, to increase access to university, to strengthen technical pathways for young people, and work with employers to improve young people's access to the right advice and experiences.
Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.
(g) Working to ensure that the next generation is born HIV - free by providing, on an urgent basis, extended and sustainable coverage and improved quality of services to prevent mother - to - child transmission as well as increasing access to paediatric HIV treatment services....
So, how can we help to ensure that fair start for all American children, and improve their access to resources and supports necessary for success?
Proponents of Common Core made their case by arguing that the standards would improve public education and eventually strengthen the workforce: they would ensure that all high - school graduates were «college and career ready,» that America remained «globally competitive,» and that all students had access to a rigorous education «regardless of where a child lives or what their background is.»