Sentences with phrase «impact on policy areas»

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Police chiefs from areas most affected by MS - 13's presence have said Trump's policies would have a negative impact on efforts against the gang.

This area covers the impact of policies affecting Canadians» health and long - term care choices and outcomes, for example regarding access to and quality of care, funding arrangements and incentives, pharmaceuticals policies, intergenerational equity considerations, and the impact of these choices on the public purse.

This area covers the impact of regulatory and other policies, such as taxes and subsidies and competition policy, on specific economic sectors (except those covered by the Institute's natural resources or financial services research), on consumers, and on the overall state of competition in Canada.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

Whether you have concerns about school lunch or child nutrition happens to be a passion for you, joining your school districts local wellness policy committee could give you the opportunity to have a positive impact on school food for all of the school children in your area.

Recognising the inter-dependency between infant feeding and numerous other policy areas, which together have a profound impact on children's life chances.

Findings also showed it as an empirically and conceptually innovative, diverse, vibrant discipline that in many areas sets the intellectual agenda The UK publishes more than its share of major disciplinary journals; bibliometric indicators reveal international primacy both in volume and citation impact; and a large number of the seminal publications (books as well as articles) continue to have a UK origin UK human geography is radically interdisciplinary and with the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences has become an exporter of ideas and faculty to other disciplines There was confidence that research in human geography had substantial impact on policy and practice and would successfully meet the challenges of the current impact agenda

She hadn't thought about communicating with policy makers before getting involved with the pairing scheme, but she now considers that «it would be a really interesting area to work in,» providing the opportunity «to have some small impact on issues [that] you really care about.»

The government has now accepted that the project has had an environmental impact on the local area, and has announced policies to address the problems and to help...

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

The new green paper will have a big impact on the future of online safety and how schools approach this vital area of safeguarding, so these sessions present a fantastic opportunity for teachers to share their views and help shape government policy.

It provides unequivocal evidence of the positive impact of intensive sports coaching and mentoring on the lives of young people, and also supports our view that further high - quality research is needed to continue to inform policy in this area.»

One area where Trump's administration could significantly impact federal education policy is through the remaining vacancy on the Supreme Court.

An assistant professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, Dr. Jimenez - Castellanos has published extensively in the area of K - 12 education finance, policy and parent engagement and its impact on opportunity, equity and outcomes in low - income ethnically and linguistically diverse communities.

The reason is that even if evidence showed the impact of such policies on observable outcomes, such as student test scores, we know that good teachers produce learning gains in areas that go beyond tested academic subjects.

Advocates for parent and community engagement see the newly revised federal K - 12 law as an opportunity to expand their impact on states» academic goals, plans for school improvement, and other areas of policy.

One area in which Public Impact has focused on helping education leaders reallocate resources in is teacher compensation, devising policies and practical systems to pay teachers more.

This year, we are pleased to present the Prevention Science Award to Dr. Karen Bierman who is one of the preeminent leaders in the field of prevention science and child clinical psychology, with an outstanding record of programmatic work with wide - ranging impact on theory, practice, and policy in two areas: the development of peer relations and aggression, as well as the development of effective prevention programs.

Before the Government makes any policies or changes existing ones it must stop and think about the impact they will have on families living in rural areas.

Population aging has wide ranging impacts for our country and while much of the policy debate surrounds the impact on areas such as health care, taxation revenue and our productive capacity, there is little discussion about the impact that it will -LSB-...]

In other projects, she is working to quantify the impact of environmentally concerned constituents on congressional voting, and seeking to determine the degree to which environmental voting, agricultural voting, and voting in other policy areas reflect more general voting in Congress.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

The distinctive characteristics of rural areas make them uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because: • Greater dependence on agriculture and natural resources makes them highly sensitive to climate variability, extreme climate events and climate change • Existing vulnerabilities caused by poverty, lower levels of education, isolation and neglect by policy makers, can all aggravate climate change impacts in many ways.

These limitations suggest areas for further research that could help improve an understanding of China's potential to reduce emissions beyond its borders, and would allow policy analysis on how China could increase this positive impact, particularly in developing countries.

Together with colleagues from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Duke University, the University of Alberta, and Costa Rica's Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Ferraro analysed the impact of protected areas on deforestation in Costa Rica between 1960 and 1997.

«A lot of the work tends to be policy relevant; for instance, NCEAS has had a lot of impact on the Channel Islands marine protected area network,» Davis says.

Shashank joined RHG in 2008 as research analyst, and has since worked across RHG's practice areas to analyze the impact of policy proposals and structural developments on specific markets and broader economic trends.

* Claims: As reported by Becki Gray, Carolina Journal, Nov. 3, 2015; Claims Source: The Renewable Portfolio Standards NC (Institute of Political Economy at Utah State University / Strata Policy), Feb. 2015 + NC Department of Revenue, Renewable Energy Property http://www.dornc.com/publications/incentives/2015/index.html ^ Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, 2005 - 2009: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST370000000000003 ~ NC Utilities Commission attorney, as reported by The News & Observer, Apr. 22, 2015: http://www.wral.com/proposed-rollback-on-nc-renewable-energy-requirements-again-rejected/14599311/ ** NC Sustainable Energy Association, 2015 Clean Energy Industry Census, + + RTI International, Economic and Rate Impact Analysis of Clean Energy Development in North Carolina — 2015 Update, Feb. 2015 ^ ^ TechNet letter submitted on behalf of Apple, Google and Facebook to NC General Assembly, May 2015: http://cleanenergync.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Apple-Inc.-Facebook-Inc.-Google-Inc.pdf

Any driver (s) that is present on a policy will be subject to a variety of areas that can impact rates.

Road work and utility improvements within the local area may or may not have an impact on your homeowners insurance policy.

Government policy in other areas can also have an impact on businesses.

We surveyed over 11,500 global working professionals, including 350 males and females from the UAE, to ask their opinion on five areas that impact gender diversity in the world of work: ambition, self - promotion, equal pay, career opportunities and gender diversity policies.

Systemic discrimination cases involve a pattern or practice, policy, or class case where the alleged discrimination has a broad impact on an industry, profession, company or geographic area.

Newly elected AMA president Dr Brian Owler said the report, which showed that 12 % of people in disadvantaged areas delayed or did not fill a prescription due to cost, highlighted the impact the co-payment policy would have on the vulnerable.

• Programs that empower individuals to change their lives, their communities» lives and the systems that are barriers to good social and emotional well being can have an impact on a number of key policy areas.

Specific areas of child development research are particularly relevant to a consideration of the impact of family instability on foster children, and on child welfare policy and practice in general.

It contains a wealth of data and a detailed analysis of the cumulative impact of the Budget on Indigenous people and communities across a range of policy areas, including health, housing education and community services.

The purpose of the review is to: - Identify what is working well within the legislation including its impact on policy and practice - Address any identified gaps, operational improvements and new areas for development - Capture current legislative, policy and practice developments - Building on those steps, revise the original legislation Please note that the reform of current Guardian ad Litem arrangements (under section 26 of the 1991 Act) is being progressed separately to this review and has already been the subject of public consultation.

For thirty years and counting, Voices for Children has used data and research to help policy makers and communities make informed decisions on issues impacting our next generation in the areas of health, child welfare, economic stability, and juvenile justice.

The seven winners were chosen based on impact, innovation, minority focus, leadership, and contributions to increase affordable housing, in the areas of education, finance, leadership, media, housing project, public policy, and real estate brokerage.

They will share their perspectives on the likely winners in November and the impact of a new president and new Congress on key areas of public policy, such as tax reform, health care, housing, and entitlement programs.