Sentences with phrase «national ngos»

It is comprised of five international NGOs — Human Rights Watch, International Committee for Robot Arms Control, Nobel Women's Initiative, Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom — and four national NGOs that work internationally: Article 36 (UK), Association for Aid and Relief Japan, Mines Action Canada, and IKV Pax Christi (The Netherlands).

The participants were largely economists from the World Bank but also in attendance were representatives from other multilateral institutions such as the Africa Development Bank (AfDB) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), as well as national NGOs.

Local communities, national NGOs, environmental lawyers, medical associates, and archeological experts are working together to shelf these projects.

Therefore, in all these European countries, national NGOs possess the same rights and obligations in each state party, facilitating their actions and aims.

Since then, the Charter has been endorsed by over 170 governments, UN agencies, international and national NGOs and associations, the Red Cross and Crescent Movement and Disabled People's Organisations (DPOs).

In 2015, relief groups received $ 4.2 billion in humanitarian funding — but local and national NGOs combined received just 2.3 percent of it -LSB-...].

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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has been a major issue among NGOs and activists who claim that the proposed agreement undermines national sovereignty, the environment, and digital rights.

CAN - Rac is a national network comprised of over 90 member organizations from across the country, representing aboriginal, faith - based, labour and environmental NGOs.

Gandhi's followers as well as many Western NGOs continued to work, without national help on community development.

We have to bring together all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.

The combination of small and middling nations curtailing national sovereignty to enhance their own sense of importance and of NGOs using the idea of civil society to undermine political accountability makes for a fine muddle in trying to understand what is going on.

The internet revolution of the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of partnerships and of informal transnational governance networks (grouping multibillion dollar foundations, like - minded politicians, NGOs, representatives of the world of finance, enterprises, academics...), globalisation under all its forms and the decentralisation and regionalisation strategy of the UN effectively brought the global agenda to the regional, national and local levels.

The Philippines is a leader in working towards ending malnutiriton with many agencies and NGOs doing important and valuable work to help, including the Department of Health, National Nutrition Council, and the Food and Nutrition Research Institute.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the other founding members of FWRA — the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and National Restaurant Association (NRA)-- joined an impressive group of government groups, NGOs and industry organizations.

Local and national retailers, local family - related services, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, service providers, food services, safety non-profits and NGOs, other industry - related businesses.

Local and national retailers, local family - related services, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, service providers, safety non-profits and NGOs, other industry - related businesses.

DC Baby Show - consumer show: Local and national retailers, local family - related services, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, service providers, food services, safety non-profits and NGOs, other industry - related businesses.

A national sustainable Strategy Board, including representatives from all the voluntary groups, health professional organisations, and NGOs to share best practice between devolved nations coordinated by a high level funded lead specialist.

Therefore, the target audience includes national and local public health policy - makers, implementers and managers of maternal and child health programmes, health care facility managers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), professional societies involved in the planning and management of maternal and child health services, health care professionals (including nurses, midwives, general medical practitioners and obstetricians) and academic staff involved in training health care professionals.

There are also plenty of institutions such as the Corporate Affairs Commission and the National Planning Commission charged with overseeing the operations of NGOs in the country.

In the process, political resources should be mobilized to overcome pressure from interest groups in tobacco development, to empower NGOs, to reallocate resources in favour of anti-tobacco measures, and to establish a national strategy for tobacco control.

As a result, dams have received much criticism from academics in the social sciences, and national and international NGOs, culminating in anti-dam social movements like those seen against the Narmada project in India.

As documented by the Field Study conducted by the World Bank with the assistance of national and international NGOs, this amount was properly applied.

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

Section 8 of the bill even goes further by empowering the commission to coordinate the work of all national and international NGOs in the country.

The Interim National Director of world Vision Ghana was very appreciative of the partnership between his outfit and the local government authorities in Kintampo South, the Jema Traditional Council, NGOs and communities to bring to the fore issues effecting children to the fore via the child parliamentarians.

The Global Amnesty Watch, an organization out to address the use of international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) by some big countries to undermine their territorial integrity, sovereignty and the national laws of the country said, it is rightly concerned that the plots to destabilize otherwise stable countries is gathering pace instead of slowing down in the face of global outrage over the damage being done.

«We must work through national programmes, NGOs and communities in the field to apply these recommendations.»

The next set of testing begins in a few weeks and will include federal and district prosecutors, regional and national law enforcement and multiple NGOs.

Placenames for Burma are provided by the US Government National Geospatial Intelligence Agency GEOnet Names Server, a list derived from Russian topographic maps, lists received from NGOs, and other sources.

«Platform of Associations in Charge of ASAMA and Post-ASAMA», an NGO in Madagascar that developed a comprehensive approach to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by establishing partnerships between the national authorities and 66 other NGOs.

When narrowly defined national interests dominate the dialogue and policy making regarding human rights, the international community, the UN, and NGOs must continue to encourage and assist the Thai government to provide greater freedoms and protection of all human rights to the Burmese refugees residing on Thai soil.

What is more, the majority of adult literacy programs are made and implemented by NGOs, and levels of functional literacy remain low for national active population: about 70 % of workers that have basic skills in reading, writing and numeracy are unable to use these skills in an effective and competitive way in a context of global economy.

The following page provides resources for three to four lessons on the role of international organisations, NGOs and different national governments in combatting food insecurity and disease.

This has left it to private players or NGOs to fill the vacuum, though the absence of a coherent national policy on this has ensured there are not enough libraries to cater to its citizens.

Back in The Netherlands most of my clients were large corporates, NGOs and local and national governments.

Starting tomorrow on National Honeybee Awareness Day (August 21), Directors» Maryam Henein and George Langworthy will launch events and activities nationwide through environmental groups, ngo's, beekeeping associations, chefs, gardening clubs, women's alliances, and others to help teach people in their communities about the plight of the honeybee and what can be done to save them.

But I think it's an important moment, because it's when she also seems to attach herself to the Brubdtland / WCED report, which makes room for NGOs in global and national policy - making processes.

Energy ministers — as well as the major energy companies, government research units, and NGOs that participated in this meeting — have significant power to shape national and international action to develop CCS technologies.

National REDD + Strategy / Action Plan With NP support Panama completed in 2015 the first part of the participatory process through the «active listening» methodology, resulting in a complete diagnosis of the situation of the forest and deforestation in Panama, including concrete proposals for the National REDD + strategy from academia, NGOs, private sector, campesino, afro - descendant communities, women groups, and three indigenous groups.

The conference welcomes people who work in climate change adaptation, within the fields of science, in local communities, governments and municipal administration, in ministries and national authorities, politics, businesses, industry and NGOs.

This year's Polish wind energy event in Warsaw will gather over 2500 participants, including high - ranking EU and national officials, key wind industry representatives and NGOs.

The RUAF Foundation designs, coordinates and implements programmes and projects in cooperation with local governments, NGOs, farmer organisations, consumer groups, universities and research organisations, private enterprises and other local, national and international partners.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

It was around this time that we began to hear activist groups described as NGOs and see them used as consultees to government on all sorts of issues — culminating in Friend of The Earth activist & Eng Lit graduate Bryony Worthington being brought into government to take the lead in formulating national energy policy.

As I've argued previously on spiked, there is a bizarre relationship between NGOs, national governments and supranational political organisations.

NGOs are given priviliged access to policy - making processes at national and supranational political institutions.

So, alongside over 150 colleagues from across a wide spectrum of national research facilities, industry, other NGOs, academia and government, I buckled down and got to work.

If Pope Francis is Right that Climate Change is a Moral Issue, How Should NGOs and Citizens Respond to Arguments Against Climate Policies Based on Unacceptable National Costs?

But there are also IPCC people from national labs who are not at arms» length of the government; there are governments who hire consultants to work for the IPCC; and there are IPCC people in the employ of industry and environmental NGOs.