Sentences with phrase «financing mechanisms for»

The Task Force believes that the financing mechanisms for law school education and the pricing practices they facilitate must change, and that continued public confidence in the system of legal education is dependent on that change.

Little is known about the credit and finance needs of urban producers and small scale agro-entreprises and the informal financing mechanisms used by them to facilitate access to inputs and services and / or to expand their operations.The choice of the most appropriate financing mechanisms for urban agriculture should be guided by the type of urban agriculture to be supported.

Diego Enriques, City of Quito, reminded of the importance to include the private and finance sector to create new, simple, innovative financing mechanisms for local actions.

(9) Innovative clean technologies, including U.S. and multilateral financing mechanisms for their deployment, are critical to mitigating global warming pollution, preventing catastrophic changes to the climate, and developing robust economies around the world.

I have led the way in developing policies to promote innovative financing mechanisms for water infrastructure, as well as policies to protect our beaches, rivers and wetlands while better utilizing our waterways to promote tourism, and improve domestic and international commerce.

On the one hand, President Obama announced a slew of new incentives and financing mechanisms for renewable energy and efficiency Monday at the 8th annual Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, hosted by solar champion Sen. Harry Reid (D - NV).

The World Bank, whose president, Jim Yong Kim, is attending the talks, took the opportunity to launch a financing mechanism for insuring risks from pandemics.

Based on this, it is in the process of developing the first city bond as an alternative financing mechanism for their projects.

Areas of expertise: Water management and policy; floodplain management and planning; interdisciplinary and multi-benefit decision support and analysis; operations and systems research; trade - off analysis; public finance mechanisms for water management

And a change in the financing mechanism for the special needs scholarship program so that public schools receive more funding

Senators Cornyn (R - TX) and Warner (D - VA) introduced a bill to expand private activity bonds (PABs) on the day the Chamber had its press conference, and The Bond Buyer sees PABs as the financing mechanism for infrastructure through «public private partnerships.»

It also reports that the project «Towards the Development of a Sustainable Financing Mechanism for the Conservation of the Ifugao Rice Terraces», developed by the University of the Philippines, Los Banos in collaboration with the Provincial government, was finalized and presented in August 2009.

How is it that this small and remote Amazonian state has become a regional leader in innovative finance mechanisms for forest and biodiversity protection?

The Water Benefit Standard is an accepted certification and financing mechanism for sustainable water projects worldwide.

Not exact matches

Working with its allies and partners in Europe, the U.S. should seek to respond to the Belt and Road Initiative by providing alternative financing mechanisms, especially for countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

In the 2015 Budget, the Government announced that it was exploring new innovative financing and funding mechanisms, along with flexible payment arrangements, but this will not take affect for some years.

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

Last week, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expressed the need for a mechanism to support financing for U.S. exporters, namely to bolster small - business exports, during an interview on CNBC.

Generally speaking, convertible notes are the preferred mechanism from the company's perspective for an early stage angel financing.

«The social sector has faced several issues around de-risking from banks which has caused several NGOs to look for alternative mechanism to ensure that their work is not associated with money laundering or terrorism financing.

The editorial emphasized the need for a public financing mechanism modeled on New York City's successful small donor matching program, where the first $ 175 of any donation is matched at a 6 - to - 1 ratio.

Watchdogs said the constitutional amendment would be a poor substitute for a full - fledged public - financing mechanism.

It is imperative to strengthen the Public Accounts and Finance committees of Parliament to play their oversight responsibilities more effectively; and also to develop a mechanism for effective synergy and coordination between the Monitoring Units of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) and the Office of the President.

There are very specific laws governing how a campaign itself can raise money, which are enforced by the Federal Elections Commission, created by Congress in 1975 as the enforcement / compliance mechanism for campaign finance laws.

AFD, operator for France's bilateral development finance mechanism, is a public industrial and commercial institution with the status of specialized financial institution.

I admire his stance against the Patriot Act, as well as his efforts on campaign finance reform and against torture and indefinite detentions of terror suspects without any mechanism for judicial review.

Both NYPIRG and Unshackle Upstate agree the state needs a better enforcement mechanism for campaign finance laws.

Cuomo has also introduced an enforcement mechanism for campaign finance.

Ching suggested the system could be finalized and running as early as September: «We see carbon finance as one of the potential mechanisms for addressing wetlands conservation.»

The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families, economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services by middle - income families.

Policies and finance mechanisms being developed for climate change mitigation may offer an additional route for effective coastal management.

The Global Partnership for Education should align fully its strategic plan and financing mechanisms to the collectively agreed education goal and targets.

Recommendations are also being formulated concerning: the indicators and benchmarks for the post-2015 education agenda and monitoring mechanisms; governance, coordination and partnerships, and financing of education.

This type of fund, managed and predominantly financed by the state, acts as an insurance mechanism for districts that can't cover the full cost of educating high - need pupils along with all others under their purview.

Because course - choice policies have the potential for an elegant accountability mechanism tied to the financing of outcomes, once students take courses back within the traditional district schools, that accountability mechanism would go away.

It examines finance questions such as who pays the college tuition, and it raises questions of program quality, such as the mechanisms for ensuring well - trained teachers and rigorous courses.

According to the paper, Every Child Should Have a Textbook, centralized financing mechanisms could allow for a -LSB-...]

At the very least, it» s headed for dramatic shrinkage, save for a handful of places and circumstances, to be replaced by a very different set of institutional, governance, financing, and education - delivery mechanisms.

Emerging are new networks of Catholic schools, new governance models, new instructional approaches, and new financing mechanisms that allow parents to choose the best education for their child.

In 2006, Camino Nuevo received an $ 8 million loan from the Los Angeles Charter School New Market Tax Fund — an innovative financing mechanism created by ExED in partnership with the U.S. Treasury Department — to develop a striking new facility for Camino Nuevo High School on the site of a former ice cream factory.

As a fellow real estate investor recently considered, alternative financing may frequently provide the mechanism to make the deal work for buyer and seller.

In the decades leading up to the GFC, these assumptions were transformed from empirically (con) testable propositions into the central articles of faith of the ideology of modern finance: the foundations of a widely held belief in the self - correcting nature of markets and their consequent optimality as mechanisms for the allocation of society's resources.

A «look over the fence» to the area of independent film financing again provides an insight as to the mechanisms developed in that field, some of which may be a template for future crowd funding of games projects.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

In May, The United States Agency for International Development guaranteed Althelia for up to $ 133.8 million in commercial finance for forest conservation and sustainable land use though a new mechanism that seeks to de-risk these types of investments.

The key part of the equation missing for retrofitting large numbers of these quite common Victorian terraces, is the finance mechanism.

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In particular, Olander notes, «The urgent task at hand is for projects and regional authorities to share the work of developing technical, legal, and financial mechanisms that allow for links between projects, national models, and diverse sources of international financing.»

The Energy Programme of Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG)-- Peru Office for the transfer of clean energy technologies to remote communities in Peru, capacity building in the industrial and consultancy sectors and the establishment of innovative financing mechanisms.

Governments, in collaboration with industry, can play a determinant role in developing policy and regulatory mechanisms that unlock the private finance necessary for such a boost in investment.