Sentences with phrase «institutional capacity as»

Researchers pointed to decreasing congressional institutional capacity as a decades - long trend that has generated bipartisan concern.

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While it affirms the stands of the government and people of the state of Libya against these inhuman actions, he said the Ministry has for many years advocated for effective policies in dealing with these phenomena by supporting institutional capacity - building and enterprise development in the country to eliminate illegal migration, smuggling of migrants and trafficking in human beings as stated in the Tripoli joint Declaration -LCB- Africa and European Union -RCB- in 2006.

Mr Prosper Ahalivor who spoke on behalf of the Head of the Local Government Service (LGS) said it was pertinent to disclose that in its bid to improve institutional and staff capacity, competition, performance and service delivery, the Service had developed and implementing an evaluation / assessment system known as the LGS Performance Management System (PMS).

«Nearly all agencies have stable workforce levels, with modest attrition reductions expected for the Office of Mental Health -LRB--353) and the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities -LRB--253) as streamlining of institutional capacity continues,» the budget narrative states.

Brad provides scientific and programmatic leadership for NHLBI's Hypertension Outcomes for T4 REsearch within Lower Middle - Income Countries and T4 Translation Research Capacity Building Initiative in Low Income Countries programs, as well as institutional oversight of the Fogarty Global Health Training Program.

The grant, an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, is designed to build research capacities in states such as Maine that historically have had low levels of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

However, the rulings seem motivated just as much by the recognition that courts lack the capacity to solve the problems of education and the institutional resources to enforce their decisions.

If they are truly serious about retaining quality teachers in the district, building the capacity and institutional knowledge needed to reach Superintendent Wilson's stated goal, OUSD and OEA must work together to support teachers as they search for opportunities to continue their professional development.

Such works show Burden engaging architecture's physical forms and capacities as much as the institutional priorities and negotiations with power that architecture siphons.

Since 1998, I have served in various capacities as an institutional arts administrator.

TB Well, when we were corresponding about these ideas a few years ago, I would have been referring to institutional critique as it was received by my generation, I suppose, before we expanded its capacity, in some sense.

The exhibition overlaps geographically and chronologically, highlighting the artist's journey as historian both through an institutional critique (Frames) and through their capacity to question the ways in which we relate to memory (Documents).

Having said this and notwithstanding its excellent performance in innovation capacity, the United States could do better in those indicators which capture dimensions of the institutional environment, such as public sector management, including management of the economy, as well as levels of transparency in government.

From these studies, a complex range of factors, including behavioural economics (Grothmann and Patt, 2005), national aspirations and socio - political goals (Haddad, 2005), governance, civil and political rights and literacy, economic well - being and stability, demographic structure, global interconnectivity, institutional stability and well - being, and natural resource dependence (Adger and Vincent, 2005), are all emerging as powerful determinants of vulnerability and the capacity to adapt to climate change.

The fact sheet further lists ongoing efforts in capacity building, technical assistance and financial support for a number of enabling activities, such as improving data collection systems, institutional reforms and national monitoring systems.

One of the goals of the National Climate Change Policy is to enhance awareness, skills and institutional capacity, particularly at the provincial level, on issues such as water and disaster management, and disaster risk reduction.

Adaptation: Sierra Leone has begun adaptation efforts including sustainable land and natural resource management programs as well as improved technical and institutional capacity development to provide improved access to weather and climate data.

Through the IESO» s Demand Response Auction large consumers, as well as aggregators of smaller institutional, commercial and industrial customers, can compete to provide demand response capacity.

Bangladesh was ranked by Maplecroft the country most vulnerable to climate change, and Dhaka the world's most vulnerable city, due to its exposure to threats such as flooding, storm surge, cyclones and landslides, its susceptible population and weak institutional capacity to address the problem.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

The index's findings bore particularly bad news for Bangladesh, which topped both lists, with its capital, Dhaka, ranked the most vulnerable city due to its exposure to threats such as flooding, storm surge, cyclones and landslides, its susceptible population and weak institutional capacity to address the problem.

It may in particular cover aspects such as gap analysis, capacity building and institutional arrangements Projects considered: — Support for the development of NAMAs as vehicles for implementing NDCs (African countries)-- Supporting selected countries to get ready to implement NDCs (Africa, Caribbean and Central America)-- Support for the development of bankable NAMAs as vehicles for implementing NDCs (Latin America and Caribbean region)-- Promote Sustainable Development in the Power Sector of SIDS (Surinam and Haiti)

Problems include a lack of provision for infrastructure and urban services such as health and education, and a lack of institutional and investment capacity.

More important are such issues as access to financial resources, institutional capacities and potentials for conflict (Ocampo and Martin, 2003; Thomas and Twyman, 2005) and such stresses as rapid urbanisation, disease and terrorism.

Low economic strength, inadequate infrastructure, low level of social development, lack of institutional capacity, and a higher dependency on the natural resource base make the country more vulnerable to climate stimuli (including both variability as well as extreme events)» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 16).

As for the AIIB's legal needs, Mr. Sanders indicated that the Bank currently has in - house capacity to handle institutional matters, and core elements of the operational work.

Their work is focussed upon strengthening and modernising the legal and institutional framework of Myanmar's insolvency and restructuring regime as well as undertaking associated capacity development of institutions and the legal and accounting professions to support the introduction of the new laws.

The most primitive of the conflict voices is «Protest Voice», in which the actor exhibiting this voice may be observed as lacking the capacity to command the institutional form and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises.