Sentences with phrase «nongovernmental efforts»

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

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Nongovernmental organizations can provide a way for those who are not satisfied with their elected representatives to continue their efforts to influence the political process.

Significant efforts have been made to partner local governments with nongovernmental organizations to care for victims, creating places hospitable for healing.

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.

In view of the multifaceted nature of the problem we call on government to lead in a coordinated national emergency effort involving traditional rulers, security, civil society, youth organizations, political parties, media and all affiliated government and nongovernmental agencies to confront this menace confronting our dear nation Ghana.

Amid the fear and confusion, there are ongoing efforts by outside groups such as DataRefuge to store data, especially that related to climate change, on nongovernmental servers and sites.

The nongovernmental organization, headquartered in Beijing, may be best known in China for its efforts to popularize science for the general public and its occasional reports on the state of the nation's scientific workforce.

Today he coordinates efforts through the Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, a nongovernmental organization that is part of a multinational alliance dedicated to the protection of isolated tribes.

Here was a huge nongovernmental organization pulling in large grants to help the poor, with no real measurement of whether their efforts were working.

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.

Buyers of the bundle can also contribute to a second charity, one that Nintendo of Europe picked: SOS Children's Villages International, an Austria - based nongovernmental organization that works to strengthen families and communities in an effort to support the welfare of children.

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.

«I fully support the efforts of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and publication of its latest report, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, to help the general public to understand the reality of global climate change.»