Sentences with phrase «improved access to government»

As reported in last year's Social Justice Report, OIPC had identified a key role for SRAs in achieving improved access to government services, including in urban locations:

Visualisations for some areas highlight the successes of mitigation and improved access to government data in helping to adjust risk - based insurance premiums.

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Before long, he came across HydroPreneur, an initiative set up by the Singapore government to improve global access to clean drinking water and find solutions to international water shortages.

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.

The Program applies the latest thinking in public finance and resource policy to assess how governments can improve the global competitiveness of the energy sector, improve the understanding of the need for energy market access, foster the innovation that will create the energy sector of the future, and help policymakers collaborate locally, nationally and globally.

May 28 - 29, Manila The event cuts across the hyperbole and brings together business leaders, government, and blockchain enthusiasts alike to access the state of blockchain and discuss applications on improving and changing the way business is done.

The resolution — a partnership with the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Whistler Chamber, Prince George Chamber, Calgary Chamber, and BC Chamber of Commerce — offers suggestions on how the federal government can help open up air access to more airlines, which would increase tourism and improve the movement of people and goods across Canada.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

AUSVEG deliver a range of works including export readiness training for growers both looking to commence exporting and those looking to improve exporting performance; market development activities including a combination of inbound and outbound trade missions to build growers» understanding of export market supply chains and facilitate connections with international fresh produce buyers; and work with industry, Hort Innovation and government to prioritise market access for vegetable products.

«We anticipate continued growth in the liquor board stores and are also looking forward to working with the provincial governments to improve and equalize access to new grocery distribution channels.»

At the end of June 2016, a number of Nobel laureates accused Greenpeace's campaign against Golden Rice as a «crime against humanity «and called upon governments around the world to «do everything in their power to oppose Greenpeace's actions and accelerate the access of farmers to all the tools of modern biology, especially seeds improved through biotechnology ``.

The government is also improving access to primary health services, strengthening maternal and perinatal death surveillance, and supplying more ambulances to transport patients to medical facilities.

Public access to information is a cost effective way for government to improve safety.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

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.

He said successive Nigerian governments had, in partnership with development partners, contributed to efforts towards improving access to water supply and sanitation services.

The TUC expects government to scrap all the levies and taxes on electricity as a means of improving access and making it affordable to all Ghanaians in all parts of the country.

Open.ny.gov has been offered as a resource to localities across the state, which will give citizens unified access to government data and help local governments cut down costs and improve efficiency in addition to increasing transparency.

Mr. Storm commended the State government for the success of Community Health Insurance Scheme since two thousand and seven and called on other states for emulate Kwara State Health Insurance model in order to improve access to health care in Nigeria.

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.

Mr Balls said parents and children had told the government that they wanted improved access to outdoor play activities.

The CIOB has highlighted a number of areas where increased Government funding should be considered and barriers that need to be removed if access to the professions is to be improved.

The government claims dental services are improving, with more patients able to access an NHS dentist.

We have so far exhausted the accounts given by the president on the educational sector and it tells how the quality and access to education has improved massively under this government.

Following research highlighting that almost one in three families spend 30 % or more of their available earnings on childcare, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling on the Welsh Labour government to do more to improve access to affordable, quality childcare.

Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.

Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources has reaffirmed government's commitment to supporting prudent initiatives aimed at increasing public access to safe water and improved sanitation.

The ministry is trying to improve enforcement by establishing real - time monitoring systems that will give government regulators direct access to pollution data.

«That this is coming down from the government tells us that patients want access to their data to improve outcomes and that the government and regulatory agencies are going to make sure we find ways to make it happen.»

They also called on Iraq's government to improve Internet access, stop politicizing higher education appointments, and block construction projects that threaten archaeological sites.

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.

In Cambodia, access to health care was improved through heavy government investment in transport infrastructure and health facilities, while Rwanda invested heavily in human resources, recruiting and training some 45,000 healthcare workers.

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

The event has been created to address many of the major priorities of the regional Governments for education; in improving finance; increasing access; raising the levels of quality; increasing vocational and skills development for higher employment levels; and harnessing low - cost technologies to improve reach.

IEP graduates work as leaders within international education nonprofits, NGOs, and government agencies, and as social entrepreneurs running their own initiatives to improve educational quality and access worldwide.

Since the end of Sri Lanka's civil war in 2009, the government and major international organizations seek new ways to improve education access and quality for the tea plantation community.

The federal government has a critical investment role to play in 1) supporting the replication and scale - up of the best providers through its grant programs; 2) improving access to low - cost public facilities for charter schools through its own funds and by leveraging existing public - school space; 3) pushing states and local districts toward more equitable funding systems for all public school students, including those in charter schools; and 4) supporting efforts to create early - stage, innovative, and scalable models that incorporate greater uses of learning technology.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

As states continue to add public preschool programs — in the hope that greater access to early - childhood education will improve schools» chances of meeting the NCLB law's targets — it's not surprising that some organizations are pushing to increase the federal government's role in the...

Researchers also proposed changes in «rights, resources and research» to improve the inclusion of SEND pupils, and said it should be the responsibility of governments, not charities or other organisations, to ensure pupils with SEND can access good education.

Conservative ministers frequently claim to have improved access to high - performing schools since they entered government in 2010, but the EPI's latest research casts doubt on this assertion.

Since World War II, the United States government has made improved access to higher education a priority.

New figures published today show the enormity of the challenge facing the Coalition Government to improve social mobility through broadening access to top - ranked universities.

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Title VI and Executive Order 13166 are federal LEP requirements to improve LEP access for LEP applicants and LEP beneficiaries of government - funded programs.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $ 15 million to help American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments invest in public transit to help improve access to employment centers and promote economic development on tribal lands.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Government - Sponsored Enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are in the process of implementing a plan to improve access to short - term credit for independent mortgage banks.

The states and federal government provide substantial resources for higher education, to support institutions, promote research, and improve access and affordability for students and families.

AccessLex Institute hopes that through enactment of these recommendations the government will simplify the overly complex student loan system, promote greater access to graduate and professional education, and improve comprehensive federal higher education data.