Sentences with phrase «for nongovernmental organizations»

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment offers briefings about climate engineering for nongovernmental organizations, policymakers, and businesses.

«What's for sure [with trade deals] is there will be losers, as there have been losers from NAFTA and other trade deals,» Maritta Strasser — a lead trade campaigner for the nongovernmental organization Campact, and a speaker at Saturday's reportedly 50,000 - person rally in Frankfurt — told CNBC last month.

Not exact matches

In the last month, there have been mass street protests, and a global network of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, has joined the call for Mr. Najib's resignation.

Orora distributes its products through partnerships with nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits, and hires and trains women for sales and service, providing economic, educational, and environmental impact in each community it serves.»

The bank has worked with the International Finance Corporation and TechnoServe, a US - based nongovernmental organization, to increase the use of wet milling to produce higher - quality coffee for export.

For one example, the West's foreign - aid system should be radically restructured: money should be channeled principally through nongovernmental organizations and private businesses rather that through corrupt LDC governments.

When the initial proposal for the conference was made in 1989, the General Assembly suggested that member states and human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) hold regional meetings in preparation for the world gathering.

Nongovernmental organizations can provide a way for those who are not satisfied with their elected representatives to continue their efforts to influence the political process.

Significant efforts have been made to partner local governments with nongovernmental organizations to care for victims, creating places hospitable for healing.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.

* If ever there was a clear - cut cause for outrage, it is the concerted campaign by Greenpeace and other nongovernmental organizations, as well as by individuals, against Golden Rice.

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

Since 1985, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, including EBF.

The audience for this Framework includes national policy - makers, programme managers, regional advisory bodies, public health authorities, Country Coordinating Mechanisms, United Nations staff, professional bodies, nongovernmental organizations and other interested stakeholders, including the community.

Abbreviations: NGO nongovernmental organization, CI confidence interval, SSA sub-Saharan Africa, AKF Aga Khan Foundation, SCA South and Central Asia, AME - Sada African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency, LAC Latin America and Caribbean, ARC American Red Cross, SEA Southeast Asia, CHS Center for Human Services, CW Concern Worldwide, CI Counterpart International, CRS Catholic Relief Services, DRC Democratic Republic of Congo, ERD Episcopal Relief and Development, FH Food for the Hungry, FG Future Generations, HAI Health Alliance International, HHF Haitian Health Foundation, HP Health Partners, HKI Helen Keller International, HW Hope Worldwide, IRD International Relief and Development, MC Mercy Corps, MCDI Medical Care Development Inc., MTI Medical Teams International, PCI Project Concern International, Plan Plan International, RI Relief International, SAWSO Salvation Army World Service Organization, SC Save the Children, WI Wellshare International, WR World Relief, WR World Renew, WV World Vision

Other nongovernmental organizations, however, including Greenpeace Netherlands, say pulse trawling has promise to increase sustainability and that ending it now would penalize the fishing industry for innovating.

«Her dataset is one of a kind,» says Colorado State University conservation biologist George Wittemyer, chairman of the scientific board for the Kenya - based Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental organization.

Robson, whose @joolzr Twitter bio says she's a «primatologist who got a bit lost, and found her place to stand,» now works as a consultant for the University of Auckland, nongovernmental organizations, and others.

Although government and nongovernmental organization staff used federal sources for climate data, researchers found that the majority of decision - makers relied on informal networks and trusted relationships for regional information.

Radha Muthiah will provide the perspective of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a nongovernmental organization that addresses both public health and environmental impact in its mission.

This interest led to my participation in another short - term project: In 1993, I was involved in a mountain gorilla survey in the Impenetrable Forest (Uganda), which was organised by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the German nongovernmental organization Mountain Gorilla and Rainforest Direct Aid.

For example, there are lots of nongovernmental organizations sitting in Nairobi, worrying about wildlife.

Engineers and nongovernmental organizations have tried for at least three decades address the problem.

Run by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, this exchange program is administered by the Ottawa - based Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), an umbrella nongovernmental organization comprising 200 colleges, universities, educational organizations, and businesses across Canada.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - making.

Other nongovernmental organizations say pulse trawling has promise to reduce environmental impacts and that ending it now would penalize the fishing industry for innovating.

He also wants the Obama administration to convene a summit of automakers, nongovernmental organizations and lawmakers to establish a «glide path» for vehicle technology.

Some nongovernmental organizations in China have been pushing for reform over the last decade.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

In its «provisional idea» for acceptable levels of radiation in schoolyards, the education ministry cited a 2009 recommendation from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), an Ottawa - based nongovernmental organization.

Scientists working with big data sometimes face government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that are unwilling to share their data, said Peter Speyer, chief data and technology officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

For the U.S. delegation to Kigali — both government and nongovernmental organizations alike — this weekend marked the end of a long campaign.

Jean - Claude Juncker, the new commission's president - elect, must decide whether to keep the post; nine nongovernmental organizations have called on him to scrap it because they are angered by the support of the current science adviser, Anne Glover, for genetically modified organisms.

Today you can find scientists working for private industry, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, newspapers, law firms, venture capitol groups, and many other areas.

WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have dispatched an investigation team but for now are dependent on secondhand information from nongovernmental organizations and other partners in northern Syria, says WHO's Christian Lindmeier.

The model combines whale population dynamics with an economic model of demand for whales and shows what happens to prices and populations when whalers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) exchange shares.

We drove straight to a meeting at the headquarters of the Fométro, the Fonds Médical Tropical, a nongovernmental organization that operated much of Belgium's vast program for medical aid in Central Africa.

The nongovernmental organization, headquartered in Beijing, may be best known in China for its efforts to popularize science for the general public and its occasional reports on the state of the nation's scientific workforce.

Nongovernmental organizations called for her position to be abolished last year, accusing her of bias — a charge she rejected.

In a January editorial in Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.»

According to a 2013 study from the Climate Group, a London - headquartered nongovernmental organization, China will need at least $ 24 billion per year for adaptation actions by 2020; by contrast, the nation's estimated budget is only $ 13.5 billion based on its current expenditures.

Rather than a global target for zero deforestation, «governments, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations should instead set separate, ambitious targets for reductions in gross deforestation and for reforestation,» write Brown and Zarin.

Associação Progresso, a Mozambican nongovernmental organization recognized for its effective «Literacy in Local Languages, Springboard for Gender Equality» programme in Mozambican languages.

sponsors intercultural exchange programs for students in 69 countries, claims it is the first nongovernmental organization to negotiate an exchange for secondary teachers with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

Many philanthropists, numerous nongovernmental organizations, and the Indian government believe technology is the portal to upward mobility, a means for students to escape poverty and the legacy of the caste system.

The debates will bring together academics, representatives of the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as well as representatives of nongovernmental organizations and civil society.

He sees the key to this new structure in the chartering model, in which nongovernmental organizations are granted extensive autonomy, by a government - appointed, independent authorizing board, to operate schools in exchange for positive student achievement outcomes.

LONDON — The American Federation of Teachers, along with teachers unions and nongovernmental organizations throughout the world, will speak out during Pearson's annual general meeting Friday, April 29, in London to call for a review of its business model that pushes high - stakes testing in the United States and privatized schools in the developing world.

It removes the option of the court allowing the owner or keeper of a dangerous dog to keep the animal and requires the court to either order the dog confined at a governmental facility, local humane society or similar nongovernmental organization for its lifetime or be euthanized.