Sentences with phrase «nongovernmental funders»

Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of submission.

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.

«Private universities are much more dependent on project - related, nongovernmental funding than public universities,» says David Schwappach, a health economist in the faculty of medicine at Witten - Herdecke.

Not exact matches

Depending on whom you ask, the agents of globalization vary widely: multinational corporations like General Motors, Nike and Coca - Cola (the largest employer in sub-Saharan Africa); the United Nations and the thousands of nongovernmental organizations; the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization; or CNN and Disney.

The obvious benefit of this approach will be increased funds available for nongovernmental schools, funds subsidized by a tax credit rather than dispersed in federal grants.

This interest led to my participation in another short - term project: In 1993, I was involved in a mountain gorilla survey in the Impenetrable Forest (Uganda), which was organised by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the German nongovernmental organization Mountain Gorilla and Rainforest Direct Aid.

Governments, charities, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) spend trillions of dollars each year to combat poverty, but they often lack rigorous methods to evaluate the programs they fund.

The idea is to enlist governments, international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, funders, scientists, and industry in a multipronged approach.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have dispatched an investigation team but for now are dependent on secondhand information from nongovernmental organizations and other partners in northern Syria, says WHO's Christian Lindmeier.

Thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)-- from the huge World Wildlife Fund to Brooklyn's tiny Friends of the Gowanus Canal — are aggressively educating consumers and lobbying public officials about water issues.

Individuals and groups from K — 12 and higher education are invited to participate in this program, especially faculty, administrators, school and district leaders, and higher education administrators, as well as individuals and groups from educational nonprofits, funding organizations, and nongovernmental organizations.

The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) report, edited by corporate - funded skeptic Fred Singer, argued that «recent climate change stems from natural causes.»

March, 2008 Fred Singer was involved in creating the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a venture partly funded by the Heartland Institute (which currently contributes over $ 300,000 per year to funding the report) and which is designed to be a counterpoint to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), except which argues that climate change is due to natural causes.

Examples of non-regulatory governance mechanisms include non-binding resolutions by intergovernmental organizations; voluntary codes of conduct for researchers; rules and requirements imposed by funders, universities, or professional associations; memoranda of understandings between nongovernmental organizations, governments, or international organizations; and so on.

In partnership with its Intergovernmental (IGO) and Nongovernmental (NGO) clients, Cigna designs and administers employee benefits programmes, and provides expert advice on funding.

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.