Sentences with phrase «local capacity»

Our capacity - building professional development helps schools and districts implement customized approaches that build local capacity for improved instruction and leadership.

In part the problem is a technical one — to develop local capacity to design, construct and maintain high - rise earthquake - resistant structures.

This means that school leaders must increase local capacity to develop competitive state, federal, and private donor grant applications.

A patient can freely choose between public and private primary healthcare providers, as far as local capacity permits.

«There's a limited local capacity for adoption in their area, and so they want to ship them abroad,» she said.

Complete educational reform with the ultimate goal of creating a culture of instructional excellence and establishing successful local capacity.

Local capacity among communities and improvement of government structures at a decentralized level would also have major benefits in minimizing the risks and reducing the losses from some of these impacts.

Currently, she is working with states to improve their state systems and build local capacity of early childhood programs to serve children with disabilities and their families.

PPIC sponsored the event in conjunction with the release of two reports, Implementing the Common Core State Standards in California and California's Transition to the Common Core State Standards: The State's Role in Local Capacity Building.

But, ultimately, policy leaders across the country need a diversified strategy for English learners that takes a range of local capacities into account.

In 2013, the HVC identified the need to develop a more strategic approach to expanding local capacity to serve more of Virginias eligible population.

IEL's Coalition for Community Schools is working with community school initiative leaders to enhance local capacity to make schools and communities healthier places for all by bridging the gap between the health and education sectors.

As such, the Mentoring Program was designed to encourage local capacity building through mentorship and, in so doing, ultimately and as a consequence of the new acquired skills an enhanced research environment and increased international research collaboration opportunities.

Local outcome data will drive this decisionmaking, says Kane, and to deliver on these new requirements, he imagines a future in which a collection of «efficacy networks» provide local capacity to measure, evaluate, and share the impact of local interventions.

CC may also exacerbate poverty and overwhelm local capacity to adapt.

All of CEC's work is rooted in the belief that sustainable change can only occur when local capacity is built to ensure the improvement continues after the grant ends.

The funding reform commission is responsible for taking a number of factors into account including local capacity to support schools, regional differences in associated costs and a variety of student characteristics that impact educational needs.

She attributes the failure of these reforms to poor local capacities, to the resistance of African interest groups, and to donors» lack of savvy and backbone in negotiating aid - for - reform deals.

The lack of economic development has been attributed to poor coordination between international actors and lack of consideration for local capacity [13]

This program replicates the successful components of current MCAN sponsored college advising programs while leveraging local capacity and resources.

With 10,000 schools and nearly 300,000 teachers, there is intense focus on the problem of uneven local capacity — for aligning classroom practices with the Common Core; for ensuring skilled principal leadership; for revamping district management and budgeting strategies.

«And Curaçao was our big leap to see how we can help a place like this that is a lot more complicated but also has a lot more local capacity.»

Investments in energy efficiency, demand response, renewable resources, and transmission upgrades within the Los Angeles Basin will contribute to meeting local capacity requirements or reduce them.

«We have also started to see early signs that our decisions to acquire the distribution rights in Nigeria to the International Premium Spirits brands of Diageo and to invest in local capacity for spirits manufacturing are the right ones for the business.»

It is also aimed at developing local capacities in the petroleum industry value chain through education, skills transfer and expertise development; transfer of technology and know - how and active research and development programmes.

The efforts of some regions, such as the ACEs screening with expectant parents and families with young infants, serve as powerful examples of local capacity building.

In 2013, the HVC identified the need to develop a more strategic approach to expanding local capacity to serve more of Virginias eligible population.

There exists diversity at local level as local capacity / innovativeness, vis - à - vis a projected discursively driven homogeneity of the «national» (in the form of «res publica») at state level.

The outcome is a local, customized implementation plan that includes six levels of professional development evaluation based on Tom Guskey's work, as well the processes required to create local capacity to sustain new learning.

PD In Focus supports your efforts to improve learning, teaching, and leadership through building local capacity and expertise.

The U.S. Department of Education awarded the School Climate Transformation Grant to the MDE to develop local capacity for implementing MTSS for behavior.

He also responded to questions from the audience by detailing the steps being taken to improve the investment climate and enhance the local capacity by improving education, as well as enforcing local content requirements for new investments.

«This new refinery along with other things we are going to do with the refinery in Port Harcourt gives us hope in our quest to try and increase our local capacity to produce every refined product we need in the country and to meet the timeline of 2019.

Mr Vish Ashiagbor, Country Manager of Price Waterhouse and Coopers (PWC), whose organization facilitated the selection of the award winners, said they were passionate about growing local businesses and local capacities.

She stated that the Region has become the home for GNPC's highly tech - based activities and thus need to invest in the development of local capacity to ensure that the indigenes also earn a legitimate stake in Ghana's oil and gas extractive business.

He said the company has been realizing the positive impacts of its decisions to acquire the distribution rights in Nigeria to the International Premium Spirits brands of Diageo and to invest in local capacity for spirits manufacturing.

«We didn't get into a lengthy conversation but the immediate comment from some of the mayors in the room was: How can we use our abilities, how can we use our local capacity and our bully pulpits to try and move forward sensible gun control legislation?

Local capacity building.

The organization has country offices in 177 countries, where it works with local governments to meet development challenges and develop local capacity.

«One reason why we organized this session in the first place was to encourage the sharing of such perspectives within the context of how geophysicists can build local capacity, not only for dealing with acute issues such as disasters, but also longer term challenges like building capacity for economic growth.»

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.