Sentences with phrase «most vulnerable communities»

Washington's Home Visiting Services Account, which has already gained national recognition, uses combinations of private, state and federal funds to provide more home visiting services to families living in some of Washington state's most vulnerable communities.

This account uses combinations of federal, state and private funds to provide more home visiting services to families living in some of Washington state's most vulnerable communities; funds also support the professional development of home visitors and ensure programs get the results they promise.

Since December 2010, the state's Home Visiting Services Account has been using combinations of private, state and federal funds to provide more home visiting services to families living in some of Washington state's most vulnerable communities; funds also support the professional development of home visitors and ensure programs get the results they promise.

Home visiting is a voluntary intervention that pairs professionals with expecting and new families — often living in some of our state's most vulnerable communities — to work together on a regular basis in the home.

This would have a devastating impact on our country's most vulnerable communities, who already face barriers to getting health care.

As Charter litigation often involves some of Canada's most vulnerable communities, a flexible approach to these two issues has relieved some of the financial and emotional burdens of Charter litigation, and advanced access to justice.

For Blauer and other advocates, open data became a basis for engagement and public sector transparency, leading to improved access to justice for some of society's most vulnerable communities.

Her work focuses on the health effects of climate change; advocating for strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts, especially for our most vulnerable communities; and making health a more central feature of national, state and local climate change adaptation plans.

These solutions will provide support for New York's most vulnerable communities and be a precedent for dense urban areas all over the world.

Regardless of what the IPCC assessment tells us, we need to prepare for the most intense effects of climate change, not only across the most vulnerable communities, but in all regions of the world.

While the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the commitments submitted by countries represent a significant step in the fight against climate change, the amount of ambition is still insufficient to keep global warming at a level that is safe for the most vulnerable communities and critical ecosystems on the planet.

We must protect our most vulnerable communities — and particularly communities of color — from the physical, economic, and public health effects of global warming, while providing pathways to prosperity.

But if one was to analyze the report, the projects have mostly been carried out in rapidly developing economies, especially India and China, the most vulnerable communities haven't benefitted as much as the CDM report claims to have done.

Open doors and change lives for thousands of the world's most vulnerable communities through supporting the EFF's core work.

A fast and fair transition away from fossil fuels to a renewable energy economy must protect the most vulnerable communities, including where that shift immediately impacts people and their city or state.

One important way to do that is to enact policies that offer the most vulnerable communities in the world the support they need to combat the impact of climate change and help them and the rest of the world transition to a low - carbon global economy.

For example, much of the necessary adaptation financing required to protect the most vulnerable communities will need to come from *** public sources.

This will require urgent and *** unprecedented levels of support — the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report indicates that the global cost of adaptation could be as much as *** $ 200 or $ 300 billion per year by 2050 — but it is right that the rich countries responsible for the problem help to protect the culture, heritage and identity of the most vulnerable communities and countries... Q: What should EU governments be doing about it?

The Hip Hop Caucus is focused on ensuring that as we take this bold action, those resources are being reinvested into our most vulnerable communities in order to take them from surviving to thriving.»

The lessons of 2017's hurricane season show that we still have a long way to go, particularly when it comes to helping the most vulnerable communities.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

It aims to outline how the negative impact of climate risks on agricultural production is transmitted to the most vulnerable communities and households.

Donor countries must at COP22 provide greater clarity on how the $ 100 billion roadmap will guarantee sufficient support for the most vulnerable communities.

I think my favorite moment of this campaign was different moments of interacting with amazing volunteers of all different backgrounds who are really committed to fighting climate change while lifting up our most vulnerable communities.

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

Some environmental groups and people already suffering on the frontlines of climate change say the agreement doesn't commit enough money to helping the most vulnerable communities.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

The Inner Pups works exclusively in the most vulnerable communities through outreach programs that target the eradication of heart worm disease — a scourge which causes unnecessary pain and suffering for dogs as well as extraordinary expenses for owners and shelters.

This «flip - flop» is not only unfair, it would also cause undue harm to schools that are proven to work for some of our state's most vulnerable communities.

But we're at another critical time in the American education system where severe inequities threaten our most vulnerable communities.

Once classified as an experiment, Gotham's charter sector is now the largest scaled, high - performing charter district in the country — filled with top, nationally - recognized organizations that support real success for the city's most vulnerable communities.

Thank you, all, for the work you are doing every day to safeguard our most vulnerable communities and all of our students every day.

Noonday Collection partners with talented artisan entrepreneurs to make a difference in some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

-- The term «most vulnerable communities and populations» means communities and populations that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, including impoverished communities, children, women, and indigenous peoples.

(5) MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES AND POPULATIONS.

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

«Flooding risk: America's most vulnerable communities.»

«Unfortunately, the people most affected are from the most vulnerable communities, with little access to the facts.»

«Rampant wage theft remains a reality for New York's most vulnerable communities, many of whom are immigrants,» added Steven Choi, Executive Director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC).

These capital improvements help with the renovation of youth facilities that provide safe havens for our most vulnerable communities, while also enhancing and improving access to resources for those who need it the most.

«Washington's healthcare cuts have put some of New York's most vulnerable communities in danger of losing access to quality care,» said George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

«In the age of President Trump, the Bronx and all of New York needs a strong fighter for our most vulnerable communities,» Diaz Jr. wrote in a campaign email.

FRAC has joined with a diverse group of national organizations to launch the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign to expand affordable housing options for America's most vulnerable communities.

The U.S. Agency for International Development helps some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

We also talk with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and the co-author of «Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis,» about how you can help some of the world's most vulnerable communities.

Shareholders calling the world's most powerful companies to address their impacts on the world's most vulnerable communities.

«Russia, with its unwavering support for the regime, ultimately bears responsibility for these brutal attacks, targeting of countless civilians, and the suffocation of Syria's most vulnerable communities with chemical weapons.

In the wake of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals» recent decision to uphold most of the state's immigration enforcement legislation, Senate Bill 4, we renew our call for the San Antonio Independent School District to provide meaningful protections for our undocumented students and their families, and ask that our district make ensuring the safety of our most vulnerable community members its top priority.

For our Member organisations who have a proven track record of improved health outcomes, this limits service provision to their most vulnerable community members.

Not exact matches

Connecticut's Community Action Agencies are the only nonprofit agencies administering this critical home heating assistance program to Connecticut's most vulnerable residents.