Sentences with phrase «increase national capacity»

To increase national capacity to co-ordinate Ministerial views, participate in the UNFCCC process, and negotiate positions within the timeframe of the Bali Road Map; and

The eighth annual event, hosted by the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research and supported by the National Center for Education Statistics, aims to «increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

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«It is imperative for all of the major stakeholders in women's enterprise development — in policymaking, program development, capital, research, and organizational capacity - building — to move forward in the same direction, to not only increase our national competitiveness but to level the economic playing field.

These pay disparities between pre-k and K - 12 educators are a national constraint on increasing the quality and capacity of early - childhood education.

Now that the product is ready for the national stage, Popkoff's is working on increasing its production capacity.

But if we succeed in making a step - change in transport connectivity between the great northern cities, easing congestion, increasing capacity and reducing journey times, then ministers succeed when it comes to the Holy Grail of rebalancing the national economy and developing a much - needed counterweight to London and the south - east.

Deputy Managing Director, Tempo Pulp & Packaging Limited, Nassos Sidirofagis, a Greece national who runs a manufacturing firm in Nigeria, told newsmen at a recent press briefing on «the CBN policy and impact on the manufacturing sector,» that the policy has begun to yield impressive dividends as local patronage has increased significantly leading to improved production capacity of up to 70 per cent.

In order to ensure rural dwellers have increased access to ICT devices such as smartphones, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has created an IT Innovation hub, which has the capacity to produce e-literate groups from low skilled or low paid workers, unemployed people, and those with disabilities who do not have access to these ICTs.

The National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative, proposed today by the 62 - university consortium, comes one day after the latest legislative proposal aimed at increasing the nation's innovative capacity (ScienceNOW, 25 January).

«By bombarding the material with protons at low energy, we simultaneously increased the material's current - carrying capacity and critical temperature — the first time that this has been possible in an iron - based superconductor,» said physicist Qiang Li, head of the Advanced Energy Materials Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, who directed the research.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are contributing key components for the project, known as LCLS - II, that will greatly increase the power and capacity of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a free - electron X-ray laser at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..

This, together with steadily increasing funding from Parliament administered by the DST, has led to the building of capacity in the ASSAf secretariat, many further evidence - based studies and forum - based activities, a large - scale Scholarly Publishing Programme, a strong international presence and a wide acceptance of the Academy's key role in the national system of innovation.

17.18 by 2020, enhance capacity building support to developing countries, including for LDCs and SIDS, to increase significantly the availability of high - quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

Results from our 2009 national poll tell us that a solid research finding has the capacity to shift public support for charter schools from 39 to 53 percent, a substantial increase (see «The Persuadable Public,» features).

The main goal of the group is to support the new national education policy in Pakistan by helping increase the capacity of the federal and provincial governments to implement reforms.

MATSITI has previously published a Teacher Workforce Scoping Plan - a blueprint for a national effort to increase the number and capacity of Indigenous teachers and leaders in the government and non-government school sectors.

The conference will feature the public release of ASCD's 2012 Legislative Agenda, presentations by influential federal policymakers and national education leaders, and an advocacy capacity - building program tailored to meet your information and engagement needs to increase your level of influence throughout the year.

Their mission is to build and increase the capacity of state and national leaders to improve education through technology policy and practice.

The Center on Standards and Assessment Implementation (CSAI) is a federally funded national center charged with focusing research - and evidence - based technical assistance to increase states» capacity to support their districts and schools in this implementation effort.

In 1998, The Wallace Foundation, along with The Education Trust of Washington, D.C., launched Transforming School Counseling, a national initiative to improve the professional preparation of school counselors and increase their capacity to provide appropriate academic and career development counseling to middle and high school students, especially those in low - achieving schools.

In response to this concern, the National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC - SD) was established in 2004 by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to assist in building states» capacity to increase school completion rates for students with disabilities.

In 2012, Sandra Newbury, DVM, National Shelter Medicine Extension Veterinarian at the Koret Shelter Medicine Program, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, presented three webinars on medical topics to start or help increase the capacity of foster programs.

Indonesia's national airline, Garuda Indonesia, is increasing capacity on its Jakarta — Singapore route by operating larger capacity aircraft in response to the strong bi-directional demand.

«Together with the new service to Durban, additional flights to Paris and increased regional capacity, these developments will lay the foundations for solid long - term growth of the Seychelles national airline and country's economy.»

Ace Museum is committed to providing Los Angeles with an alternative exhibition experience and dynamic programs focused on increasing the audience's capacity to engage with significant and challenging works, while fostering relationships with partner institutions to expand local, national, and international contemporary art and culture.

Yesterday, President Obama signed an Executive Order establishing a national goal of deploying 40 gigawatts (GW) of new combined heat and power (CHP) and waste heat recovery (WHR) by the end of 2020, a 50 percent increase from 2010 capacity levels.

It is designed to support member countries» efforts to strengthen their national forest monitoring capacities, increasing their transparency and long - term reliability.

The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

In a press release Low Carbon said: «The use of batteries will enhance National Grid's ability to manage surges in supply from renewable energy sources, as well as surges in demand, and ultimately increase the Grid's capacity to accommodate energy generated from renewables.»

That increased demand means electricity providers will need to increase capacity to guard against spikes in usage, potentially requiring up to $ 180 billion of additional grid investment, the study, detailed Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests.

Data from the National Statistics Bureau also revealed that the cumulative solar generation capacity for 2017 reached a new record of 96.7 TWh, which is a massive 57.1 % increase on 2016.

The group's proposal would allow existing power plants to maintain and even replace their equipment, and would allow providers to purchase extra power from any source on the national grid for emergencies and unexpected surges, but it would require that any permanent increase in capacity come from clean sources like wind and solar.

The researchers, led by scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), measured atmospheric carbon dioxide's increasing capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface over an eleven - year period at two locations in North America.

note 43, and Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2006 Report (Brussels: 2007), p. 4, with capacity factor from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Oak Ridge, TN: DOE, August 2006); Flemming Hansen, «Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50 % by 2025, Mostly Offshore,» Renewable Energy Access, 5 December 2006; Global Wind Energy Council, «Global Wind Energy Markets Continue to Boom - 2006 Another Record Year,» press release (Brussels: 2 February 2007), with European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association, «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16.

This slide presentation has been designed for colleagues working in the agriculture sectors who want to understand more about the NAMA concept and increase their capacity to contribute to national and global climate change mitigation goals.

Negotiators also had productive conversations about increasing capacity for delivering on national climate plans, including both for reducing emissions and planning adaptation actions.

«One is historical, next the respective capacity which is a growing process because all countries are increasing capacity and third is national circumstances,» she said.

The Consortium seeks to increase the capacity of individual physicians, national medical societies and their state chapters to address the challenge to human health represented by climate change.

She says of Ritchie, Ritchie and Others v National Osteoporosis Society and Others [2009] EWHC 709 (Ch) that «challenges based on testamentary capacity are becoming ever more common, and this increase is likely to continue as the population ages».

AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to fight poverty and to increase organizational capacity.

$ 24.5 million in this financial year to health and ageing programs including Indigenous Health — Healthy for Life; Combating Petrol Sniffing; extending the eligibility for the Hearing Services Program; to increase capacity building in Indigenous communities through the National Illicit Drugs Strategy and additional funding to the Primary Heath Care Access program;

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), licensed clinical social workers help individuals, families, and groups increase their capacity in social functioning and advocate for conditions in society that support their communities.

Increasing interest in the issues of dissemination and uptake of new information (National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research2), may prompt future reviewers (and indeed, primary researchers) to assess the real effect of research findings (using the forward tracking capacity of the Science Citation Index, among others) and to address the reasons why sound and relevant discoveries take so long to become part of standard practice.

In 1997, the Federal Government funded NACCHO to establish a Secretariat in Canberra which greatly increased the capacity of Aboriginal Peoples involved in ACCHSs to participate in national health policy development.

Their mission is to provide a national focus and community leadership to increase the capacity of the broader Australian community to prevent depression and respond effectively.

build capacity and increase service integration across several service delivery sectors by providing an evidence - based intervention programs for youth and their families and influence national and state government policy on family - based approaches to YMH

Source: Georgetown University National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health and Johns Hopkins University Women's and Children's Health Policy Center and Portland State University Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health The purpose of this tool kit is to increase the capacity for high - quality evaluation of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) in community based settings.

The goals for the Center for States include to build capacity for increased effectiveness of public child welfare agencies through strong national expertise in child welfare and change management to help build and / or sustain the ability of agencies to perform well; to work in partnership with the Centers for Tribes and Courts to support States and other jurisdictions across the country; to create new and lasting partnerships with States, jurisdictions, Tribes, courts, and the Children's Bureau's Regional Office staff that reflect a shared focus on meeting the unique and individual needs of States and jurisdictions; to use a collaborative and systematic approach to build State and territory capacities across the five domains of resources; infrastructure; knowledge and skills; culture and climate; engagement and partnership.

Guaranteed Rate Affinity intends to significantly grow its VP ranks in 2018 to increase its service capacity for NRT's national office footprint in more than 50 of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan markets.