Sentences with word «nongovernmental»

Ideally, an intersectoral team — including, for example, programme managers and staff responsible for nutrition and maternal and child health, academics, and national and international nongovernmental organizations — will use the tool as a basis for strengthening national policies and programmes that contribute to improved infant and young child feeding.

He has frequently worked with the Heartland Institute, appearing on podcasts and speaking at their annual Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) conference.

Near Rio there was an unofficial meeting of nongovernmental organizations of many sorts.

If the federal government turns a blind eye to albedo modification, the research will be done anyway by countries such as China and researchers sponsored by nongovernmental organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Keith says.

During the 1990s, Emerald has not had significant grants from nongovernmental agencies that would make the average expenditure per pupil radically different than those of surrounding schools.

«We have made a formal alliance with the Third World Network, the largest network of nongovernmental organisations in the developing countries,» says Jeremy Rifkin, of the Foundation on Economic Trends, an organisation based in Washington which opposes such uses of biotechnology.

Reimers will act as one of 30 representatives to the commission, which supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the federal, state, and local governments and from nongovernmental organizations on issues of education, science, communications, and culture.

Orora distributes its products through partnerships with nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits, and hires and trains women for sales and service, providing economic, educational, and environmental impact in each community it serves.»

It also states: «The activities of nongovernmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate state party to the treaty.»

I was impressed at first with the brain power and good intentions behind the Common Core standards, launched by nongovernmental groups with the support of the Obama administration and governors of both parties.

In Copenhagen this December, Hewlett Foundation grantees will join with representatives of approximately 170 countries and numerous other nongovernmental organizations to draft what participants hope will be a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases.

The Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment offers briefings about climate engineering for nongovernmental organizations, policymakers, and businesses.

His unqualified gratification «that the tax bill passed by Congress includes an excise tax on investment income earned by super-sized university endowments» dangerously downplays the important role played by nongovernmental institutions in a pluralist civil society.

CDM - Watch, an initiative of various nongovernmental organisations, acts to monitor CDM projects and identify non-additional or harmful ones.

A: At the G7 meeting, Dr. Bernice Dahn, [the Liberian minister of health], said when governments pay international [nongovernmental organizations] to go and do the delivery of service, the people in the community trust these organizations that take care of them instead of the government.

said Xiong Wei, who is in charge of the cycling program at Friends of Nature, an environmental nongovernmental organization in Beijing.

By contrast, on the decentralized track electrification is generally carried out through nongovernmental entities such as cooperatives, community user groups, or private entrepreneurs.

At the same time, it is an obligation for governments, international institutions, as well as nongovernmental organisations to deepen its knowledge and understanding on human rights through activities for all the population at formal, non formal and informal levels.

The largest nongovernmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States.

The frequent change in U.S. policy on funding organizations that provide abortion access, information, or counseling has caused vast confusion among foreign nongovernmental organizations working in the reproductive health arena.

He is a co-founder of Drawing Room KTM, an artist - run studio and learning space and founding member of Srijanalaya, a nonprofit nongovernmental organization dedicated to alternative forms of art education in Nepal.

Using real estate statistics from a variety of governmental agencies and trusted nongovernmental sources like the National Association of Realtors, we discovered that housing markets across the country are becoming increasingly competitive.

Starting sometime this fall, the Wellcome Trust, the charity in London that has become one of the biggest nongovernmental funders of biomedical research, will launch its own open - access online journal.

Smith's most dramatic rush to the legal defense of the fossil fuel industry was his unprecedented move last year to issue subpoenas to two state attorneys general and several nongovernmental advocacy groups over the states» climate change fraud investigation of Exxon.

One man wrote from Zimbabwe, where as a social worker and academic he was engaged in community planning sponsored by the Disciples of Christ and a local nongovernmental agency.

Second, as moral inspiration, the Universal Declaration has helped launch nongovernmental human rights groups across the planet, including the influential organization Amnesty International, which numbers more than one million members worldwide.

With categories such as «Career Achievement» and «Outstanding Research Contribution,» the CPRAs are open to individuals in public, private, voluntary, academic, nonprofit, and other nongovernmental sectors.

In May SpaceX's Dragon became the first nongovernmental vehicle to dock with the ISS.

When the initial proposal for the conference was made in 1989, the General Assembly suggested that member states and human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) hold regional meetings in preparation for the world gathering.

Protecting the resources of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is a collaborative effort involving local, State and Federal agencies as well as numerous nongovernmental organizations.

A private activity bond is a state or local bond issued to provide funds for private, nongovernmental activities such as building a sports stadium, industrial development, student loan financing, or low - income housing.

Some concrete topics that need to be addressed are the inequities of taxation; the need to invest in public education, health and transportation; and creative cooperation between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the state.

It also includes nongovernmental checks on the government's power, such as a free and independent press.

As China and Russia usher in a sub-national cooperation exchange, the two countries are also extending their cooperation to nongovernmental levels and deepening their friendship through facilitating the folk friendship.

Insurance provided by nongovernmental insurers that protect lenders against loss if a borrower defaults.

Nongovernmental companies and organizations must comply with these established standards.

This is the kind of help provided by innumerable nongovernmental efforts aimed not at «delivering services» to «clients» but at transforming lives through personal involvement with those in need.

Since 1985, the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) has supported nongovernmental organizations» (NGO) efforts to reduce maternal and child morbidity and mortality through interventions designed to address health issues, including EBF.

There is barely a passing mention of thousands of nongovernmental programs, mainly church - related, that are demonstrably effective in countering disease, feeding the hungry, and advancing development by building communities of mutual aid.

Mayor Bloomberg formed a company in the offices of his longtime accountant, Martin Geller, so he could pay three aides off the public payroll for performing nongovernmental tasks on their own time.

The Climate Change Science Program is indeed a large program, with a budget that supports a wide range of both governmental and nongovernmental scientific research, as well as climate observing systems, in particular NASA's space - based remote - sensing observing system.

Getting rid of glacial traffic flows A U.S. - headquartered nongovernmental organization, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, approached Guangzhou's then - mayor with a far - out proposal: Dig up the middle of Zhongshan Avenue.

In May they did, as SpaceX's Dragon became the first nongovernmental vehicle to dock with the ISS.