Sentences with phrase «local economic capacity»

a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.

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Another reason is that cities with a strong entrepreneurial culture and local control of economic resources have more capacity to solve problems on their own and are more resilient and adaptable in times of distress.

«Local and global shocks, such as economic and financial crises, political instability, and environmental disasters require strategies to increase our capacity for resilience,» says Kharrazi, «Policy and decision making should consider both the short and long term growth and resilience of growth based on inclusivity or exclusivity and intensity of trading partners from a network perspective.»

«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.»

The NCCS team works with colleagues in each site to understand their strengths and challenges, including their political and economic circumstances, in order to provide customized implementation assistance — including consultation, training, strategic planning facilitation and sustainability advice — designed to build their local capacity to implement the community schools strategy at both the school site and systems levels.

The WV Council on STEM makes three strong recommendations: 1) Develop local capacity for STEM education across the state by establishing 3 - 5 Regional STEM Network HUBS; 2) Strengthen the public's awareness of STEM as a vital economic development advantage for quality job growth through an aggressive public engagement plan; and 3) Establish a virtual STEM clearinghouse to review current STEM resources and assets across the state to ensure alignment and eliminate redundancy.

Future investments in local program capacity can be advanced by recruiting champions for expanded digital learning, including governors, mayors, businesses interests in economic development, as well as chief state school officers, state boards, school districts, and influential nonprofit partners.

This capacity - building project promoted sustainable tourism and hope to improve economic opportunities within the local community.

The term regional advanced technology clusters means geographic centers focused on building science and technology - based innovation capacity in areas of local and regional strength to foster economic growth and improve quality of life.

While the discussions in chapters 1 and 2 recommend increasing the governance options available to traditional owners, their capacity to contribute to the economic and social development of the traditional owner group will be expanded by integrating these structures into the local and regional tiers of governance.

Similarly in late June 2005, all Australian governments reaffirmed their commitment to «advance reconciliation and address the social and economic disadvantages experienced by many indigenous Australians» at the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments.38 This Communique © from COAG commits to indigenous participation at all levels; engagement with representative organisations; flexible approaches and adequate resources to support capacity at the local and regional levels.39 The Communique © also recognised the importance of a learning approach to service delivery and policy development.

local government to support scrutiny into a range of areas that may improve the economic capacity of traditional owner groups, particularly in training and employment; and

The 2006 Native Title Report includes case studies of Indigenous communities that have been able to generate economic development at the same time as building local skills and capacity.

So too does the Department of Local Government and Regional Development in relation to its strategy «Working with Indigenous People and Communities», which focuses on developing principles for the Department's work with Indigenous communities on capacity building, leadership and economic development.

The NT's culturally diverse, widely dispersed and significantly disadvantaged population requires a policy approach with a basis in social, emotional and economic well being, an approach that addresses upstream social determinants of health, and builds on local strengths and capacities.