Sentences with phrase «observer groups including»

The BNI report was criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

The BNI report, however, has been criticised by several observer groups including policy think tank IMANI Africa and anti-corruption group Occupy Ghana, who described it as deficient.

Not exact matches

In 2013, it obtained permanent observer status at the Arctic Council, a group that includes the eight Arctic nations and six indigenous communities.

Government observers and watchdog groups have called for oversight of the city and state university systems to be expanded under the state Comptroller, not the Inspector General, including certain contract oversight powers that were stripped by Cuomo and the Legislature in 2011.

These include The Kufuor Scholars Programmme (KSP), The Kufuor Young Entrepreneurs Network, Annual Lecture Series on Governance and Development, The Kufuor Election Observers Group, and The Kufuor Prize for Best Community Leadership.

In December 2012, NIH made public its implementation plans, which ignored some of the report's key suggestions and disappointed some observers, including the working group's chair, Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman.

«There are 20 other countries that have already expressed an interest,» says Mr. Sokolov, who notes that at a May Arctic Council meeting, members blocked several nonnorthern states — including China, Japan, South Korea, and the European Union — from becoming «permanent observers» in the group.

She is an experienced marine wildlife observer who has participated in both scientific and seismic surveys throughout the Southern Ocean (Antarctica), South Atlantic (South Orkney Islands), and the south and west coast of Australia for a variety of non-profit and corporative groups including the International Whaling Commission, Fundación Malpelo, and the offshore industry.

Parents may serve as either panelists or observers, though parents may not serve as a panelist for a presentation given by a group which includes the parent's own son or daughter.

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - Differentiated homework task to extend learning, - High level analysis of challenging texts, - Links to relevant clips, - Lesson graded as outstanding by observers, - 2 hour lesson with a clear split for 2x 1hour lessons.

Our understanding was greatly informed by talking with key observers in 2013 and again in 2015, including principals, current and former district staffers, advocacy groups, and civic leaders, whose insights are reflected below.

The online panels involved the identification of a group of individuals, including MSP project leaders, with broad experience in efforts to develop, utilize, and support teacher leaders, either as designers / implementers of teacher leadership programs or as observers of teacher leadership efforts (e.g., as evaluators or researchers).

The group shoot drew plenty of observers, including this chilled - out pooch.

«The Paris agreement will not save the Arctic as it is today,» says Lars - Otto Reiersen, executive secretary of the group behind the latest edition of «Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic» (SWIPA), a report produced under the auspices of the Arctic Council, a scientific - policy club for the eight countries with territory in the Arctic Circle), as well as observers including China and India.

The Arctic Council is the intergovernmental body charged with coordinating the eight Arctic states: Canada; Denmark, including Greenland and the Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Russia; Sweden and the United States — along with a number of observer nations, indigenous groups and organizations.

The Task Group drew on multiple sources, including input and submissions from scientists, governments, observer organizations and other relevant stakeholders.

The project's local contractors included: AECOM, Aero Mechanical Inc., AIS Observers, Aladdin Electric, Badd Brothers, Bay Crane New England, Blount Boats, Challenge Electronics, Communication Systems Inc., DiPrete Engineering, Duffy & Shanley, E.W. Audet, Eagle Elevator, ESS Group, Essex Newbury, Fuss & O'Neill, GeoEnvironmental, GZA, Hart Engineering, Hinckley Allen, Inspire Environmental, Keough & Sweeney, Mayforth Group, Meridan Ocean Services, Mott MacDonald, National Grid, Rhode Island Fast Ferry's Atlantic Wind Transfers, Specialty Diving Services, VHB, Waterson Terminal Services, and WF Shea, among others.

In other words, even if the Working Group comes up with comprehensive guidelines, unless they can find a way to force businesses to take part in any kind of ODR process, we have little hope that anything will come of them... Furthermore, since certain delegations (including Canada's) and observers (including ourselves) have already decided not to take part in this month's session, the writing seems to already be on the wall.

Our Private Equity Group has negotiated and prepared all manner of agreements relating to the governance and management of portfolio companies, including board observer agreements, executive employment agreements, investor rights agreements, management rights agreements, management services agreements, and unanimous shareholder agreements.

Any strategy to address cyber-racism should include a wide range of measures to reach and empower different categories of people involved in cyber-racism (including instigators of racism, participants in racist online groups, observers to those web pages and people harmed by the racism).