Sentences with phrase «local social infrastructure»

«He rallied his district and community, business and government leaders to systemically improve preK — 12 instruction and achievement and build a local social infrastructure to support the learning process.

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Without that legal infrastructure, companies will find it exceedingly difficult to obtain a social license to operate at the local level.

Whether they're churches, sports teams, unions or other local groups, they all share important roles as social infrastructure for our communities.

However, there has been a striking decline in the important social infrastructure of local communities over the past few decades.

In response to these strains, state and local governments have cut infrastructure investment, slashed support for higher education, cut spending on K — 12 education, cut spending on social benefits other than Medicaid, reduced administrative staff and reduced most other areas of the budget.

We have also facilitated the establishment of four local community - owned forest enterprises as tools for pooling investments in equipment and social infrastructure.

Non-financial assets are defined as expenditures on any construction - related work, from road repairs and maintenance jobs, to local parks and buildings, to social infrastructure spending such as schools, kindergartens or hospitals.

«I am grateful for this opportunity to elevate the Jamaica community and invest in critical social and economic infrastructure to improve local quality of life.

The highlight of the launch was the presentation of a cheque for the sum of One Hundred and Seventy Six Million, Three Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira (N176, 350,000) to Hon. Aminu Sani Gumel, the Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Jigawa State on behalf of the 27 Chairmen in the state for the operation of the social security scheme where a grant of between N50, 000 and N100, 000 would be given to each polling unit across the state for minor infrastructure repair and social assistance.

We also wish to specifically appeal to the state Governors and Local Government Council's Chairmen to also be responsive to the needs of the citizens through the provision of social and developmental infrastructures.

Engage Detroit city leaders, like the mayor and local developers, in addressing safety, transit, and social - service support to help families and schools develop a strong choice infrastructure.

The panel will look at the strenghts and limitations of cultural infrastructure in the empowerment of intellectuals and social groups in the development and dissemination of culure, in organising effective and efficient roles for them in their own societies to make sense of history, map and influence contemporary forces at play and steer the particularities on local historical conditions in confronting globalisation.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

These numbers do not include local populations in host communities who — themselves suffering from food insecurity and limited access to basic social services and infrastructure — would also benefit from humanitarian interventions under the agency's inclusive support strategy.

Chad Foulkes, Healthy Together Geelong Coordinator for the City of Greater Geelong — @TorquayChad — tweeted about the social determinants of health, and the roles of land use planning, infrastructure & activation as areas where local government can work for public health.

Through the right to negotiate, native title parties were active participants in negotiating conditions such as employment on projects, contracts for ancillary work, local investment, social development programs, equity participation, infrastructure development, as well as issues specific to the native title rights being claimed.

The ECN sought to achieve the following goals: (1) establish a comprehensive, sustainable SOC with a reliable infrastructure for young children ages 0 - 5 and their families; (2) reduce stigma and increase community awareness about early childhood mental health needs and the importance of responding to their needs early and effectively; (3) improve outcomes for young children 0 - 5 who have significant behavioral or relational symptoms related to trauma, parent / child interaction difficulties or impaired social emotional development; (4) provide statewide training and local coaching for providers, families, and community members regarding evidence - based practices for effectively treating early childhood mental health and social emotional needs; and (5) develop a seamless early childhood SOC using a public health model for replication in other areas of the state.

Smartly, iStar has also plowed money into local community groups to prop up Asbury Park's social infrastructure, like the local Boys and Girls Club run by Douglas Eagles.