Sentences with phrase «national capacity»

However, third parties are often overly ambitious in terms of what they seek to achieve and their determination to meet their objectives quickly can come at the expense of developing national capacity.

«This project will also improve national capacity for rail freight.

Also, as climate finance becomes increasingly available at the global level, it would be essential to enact appropriate assimilative national capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through this study.

Meanwhile, the Dahshour MDG - F project will help foster the development of sustainable rural tourism through capacity building initiatives promoting entrepreneurship for tourism SMEs, the development of tourism guides, and enhancement of national capacities to protect and manage the archaeological and natural resources of the area.

To increase national capacity to co-ordinate Ministerial views, participate in the UNFCCC process, and negotiate positions within the timeframe of the Bali Road Map; and

The methodology was subsequently adapted by UNITAR to assist countries outside the UNECE region in assessing national capacities to implement principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.

Funding agencies can have a major impact if they instruct reviewers to consider postdoctoral fellows not merely as a means to achieving the knowledge objectives of the proposal but also as young professionals whose development has a wider impact on national capacity.

Transition to a non-bifurcated transparency system covering all parties with built - in flexibility for varying national capacities, and a facilitative review process, to track parties» implementation of their NDCs (see Article 13).

Kimberly D. Tanner, a professor in the Biology Department at San Francisco State University, will receive the Bruce Alberts Award for Excellence in Science Education, for her tireless work to build local and national capacity for evidence - based teaching and biology education research.

UNECE and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) had jointly developed and pilot - tested a methodology for preparing a national profile to assess national capacities to implement the Aarhus Convention in three UNECE countries.

Documents show SCL agreed to a contract with GSR, whereby it would pay its data collection costs in order to improve «match rates» against SCL's existing datasets or to enhance GSR's algorithm's «national capacity to profile capacity of American citizens».

The following musing is the result of rereading a very old speech while listening to current events on the radio: George Washington's Farewell Address is concerned with national unity: «The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride....

[1] Earlier in September 2013, Tarek Mitri, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya, described it as a process that «would give voice to many Libyans and opens a space that does not exclude any of those who may have contributions to make to public life and are otherwise isolated, separated or entrenched in their partisan attitudes... [to] promote a national capacity to address urgent priorities and ensure public support to the efforts of state - building.»

Pramod Khargonekar is the National Science Foundation assistant director for the Directorate of Engineering, which invests in frontier engineering research and education, helping to develop the next - generation engineer while strengthening the national capacity for innovation.

Nearly all off the centers surveyed have also volunteered to participate in a U.S. Highly Infectious Disease Network to continue to advance this field through peer review and consensus efforts to further develop the national capacity for high - level isolation care.

Boosting the national capacity for producing goods of high added value is necessary to create industry jobs for students, he adds.

Strategically designed and implemented field projects will demonstrate the viability of blue carbon, facilitate the development of practical, science - based methodologies and build local and national capacity to protect and manage coastal ecosystems and their myriad ecosystem services in blue carbon - rich countries.

The eighth annual event, hosted by the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research and supported by the National Center for Education Statistics, aims to «increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

The discussion focuses on building national capacity to fight poaching on the ground, particularly in Africa, and the capacity for collaborative approaches to disrupting the criminal syndicates funneling illicit wildlife products from Africa and parts of Asia to widespread markets.

As a result of green energy's rampant unreliability, Germany plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to a report published by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.

national capacity - building increases the ability to respond to both adaptation and mitigation (such as through the National Capacity - Building Self Assessment);

Hurricane Katrina: insurance losses and national capacities for financing disaster risk.

Texas easily boasts the most wind capacity among U.S. states, about 21 gigawatts, or one - quarter of national capacity, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

He has represented clients in regional and national capacities and has investigated corporate client histories extending over a century into the past.

• Conference calls for a set of integrated national initiatives which would significantly raise the profile of child health care in Australia and dramatically improve our national capacity to understand what needs to be done and to act on it.

The organisations that convened the Conference, the NRHA and Children's Healthcare Australasia (CHA), agreed «to progress both individually and jointly with the aim of raising the profile of child health care in Australia and dramatically improving our national capacity to understand what needs to be done and to act on it».