Sentences with phrase «of aid agencies»

Over the weekend, while attending a meeting of hundreds of specialists involved in softening the blows from natural hazards, I met Ben Smilowitz, the executive director of Disaster Accountability Project, a nonprofit organization trying to track the performance of aid agencies and organizations.

African governments have also suffered from deliberate efforts, at the behest of aid agencies with powers over development dogmas, to «shrink the state.»

With the help of aid agencies such as Christian Aid, Tearfund and many others, families are more likely to survive conflict and to get back on their feet once the fighting is over.

Traditionally, the response of aid agencies and governments to refugee crises has been to set up camps and distribute supplies, like rice or bedding.

Not exact matches

Chartered in 1953 to «aid, counsel, assist, and protect, insofar as is possible, the interests of small - business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise,» the agency's portfolio is bigger than ever.

Aid agencies who are at the forefront of dealing with the influx say they are struggling and need more funding, a comprehensive long - term plan and better coordination with Ottawa.

She said that if confirmed as SBA administrator, she would rely on her experience running the WWE to understand the needs of the entrepreneurs the agency would be tasked with aiding.

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide an aid package of C$ 150,000 to India for relief efforts in the aftermath of the cyclone that devastated India's eastern shores, Minister for International Cooperation, Maria Minna, announced yesterday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed in a letter to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday his country's willingness to aid in the post-civil war reconstruction of Syria, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported.

The press also noted that the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) donated C$ 500,000 as relief aid to earthquake survivors in central Taiwan and that Canada sent a team of civil engineers with expertise in building in earthquake zones, a medical team and others to assist in the recovery effort.

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

The changes grew out of two efforts by states to aid consumers: a 2015 settlement negotiated by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the three credit reporting agencies and an agreement shortly afterward between the agencies and 31 state attorneys general.

Chilean development agency Corfo executive vice-president Eduardo Bitran noted that the deal between Tesla and SQM would likely result in a new facility that would aid the Elon Musk - led electric car maker and energy firm in securing the supply of raw material used in lithium - ion batteries.

Christian aid agencies have praised George Osborne's budget announcement which confirmed the UK will spend 0.7 % of its national income on aid this yea... More

Andronicus Adeyemo said there were also a number of people wounded, though the aid agency did not have an exact figure.

Yes, there's nothing more principled than a candidate like Ron Paul who wants to further cut taxes for the rich, get rid of subsidies for student loans, get rid of the department of education and the environmental protection agency, and end aid to starving countries in Africa, just to name a few.

A large family of seven is surviving on a handful of sweet potatoes and assistance provided by aid agencies.

World Vision subscribes to the humanitarian principles of impartiality and neutrality and therefore rejects any involvement in any political, military or terrorist activities and maintains its independence as a humanitarian aid agency committed to serving the poor, especially children.

Anyone who suspects that he or she may have AIDS, as well as persons with AIDS and their families, may be referred to these agencies for a wide range of assistance.

Christian aid agencies are among those supporting the people of Gaza, which has been hit by Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas rocket attacks.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

It is a counseling, moreover, that calls into service the aid of many other men and agencies able to help a person in need, and, very frequently, it is a counseling of counselors.

His argument for «building constituencies for change» is a plea to move beyond the intervention mode that passes for «international cooperation,» beyond the patronizing practices of private aid agencies driven by business competition rather than by civil constituencies and emancipatory agendas shared with others.

He warned that whilst aid agencies like CAFOD had scaled up their response some food was struggling to get through because of the violence.

Michael Edwards, who recently joined the Ford Foundation after a stint on the World Bank's civil society team, comes from the world of private aid agencies (sometimes termed nongovernmental development organizations or NGDOs).

In an essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education — my industry's trade journal — Penn's Peter Conn argues that the regional accrediting agencies, which hold the keys to federal student aid, should under no circumstances give religious colleges and universities their imprimatur.

Help doesn't come from aid agencies either, many of which, including the U.S. government and the World Bank, have long banned allocations for criminal justice.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aid.

Christian aid agencies are among those supporting the people of Gaza, which has been hit by Israeli airstrikes... More

Christian Aid, with other agencies, has also tried to respond to the immediate impact both of natural disasters and those caused by fighting and violence.

The day is being supported by international aid agency World Vision UK with the aim of mobilising up to half a billion Christians worldwide to pray and engage with churches, governments and society.

Frances and Derek Baars sued the Children's Aid Society (CAS), which provides child protection services on behalf of the province, after the agency took away their two foster children and banned them from fostering and adopting in the future.

Marian Karvonen, a worker with the Christian relief agency Tearfund U.K., writes a column for Reject Apathy about the Church coming to Pakistan's aid during this crisis of intense flooding.

Its sister UK and Irish aid charity Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), has revealed one of its employees accused of sexual misconduct when he worked for Oxfam in Haiti has been dismissed from his current role.

Giovanna Reda, Head of Humanitarian Programmes for Asia, Middle East and Latin America at aid agency CAFOD, said:

U.S. food aid programs are managed by the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); each has its own mandate, agenda and rules.

In 2006, the United States provided 6 million tons of food aid to agencies such as CARE, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision and Save the Children, which distributed the bags of wheat, rice or corn and containers of vegetable oil.

To insure equity and freedom in aid programs it is desirable to utilize such cooperative international agencies as the World Bank, instead of one nation's contributing directly to other nations.

With bombs pounding mostly military targets in Baghdad 15 hours a day, and a humanitarian disaster looming in the rest of the country, Iraqi Christians and international relief agency officials fear that bottled - up aid may be too little, too late for thousands.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Four Christian humanitarian aid charities are among a coalition of leading UK aid agencies which has announced a joint fundraising appeal for victims of violent conflict in Myanmar.

What's coming is an administration in which the U.S. Agency for International Development, which dispenses billions of dollars of foreign aid, will continue to condition that aid on recipient nations» bowing to the LGBT agenda — thus making enemies for America in traditional societies and cultures that will learn to equate «democracy» with libertine bullying.

The US Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under pressure to change its policies to better provide aid for places of...

Responding to reports that staff who left Oxfam in Haiti later joined other aid agencies, without their knowledge of the incidents, Christian Aid: «We are committed to living out our values of respect and dignity for all, and we will investigate any claims about any individuals involved in the Haiti incident to ascertain the facts, should they relate to Christian Aid and should we receive further information.&raqaid agencies, without their knowledge of the incidents, Christian Aid: «We are committed to living out our values of respect and dignity for all, and we will investigate any claims about any individuals involved in the Haiti incident to ascertain the facts, should they relate to Christian Aid and should we receive further information.&raqAid: «We are committed to living out our values of respect and dignity for all, and we will investigate any claims about any individuals involved in the Haiti incident to ascertain the facts, should they relate to Christian Aid and should we receive further information.&raqAid and should we receive further information.»

With the aid of government agencies, large firms have been seizing swaths of land in forest areas that were traditionally under ancestral tenure and rapidly converting them to mono - crop rubber and oil palm plantations.

Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: It is the position of the International Lactation Consultant Association that supporting their wellbeing should be a priority of governments, aid agencies, health workers, and members of the public.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

Participants from various IBFAN organizations, aid agencies, non-governmental organizations, social service organizations, health care workers, policy makers and representatives from WHO and UNICEF, discussed the protection of breastfeeding and the establishment of breastfeeding cultures as vital components in measures dealing with this topic.

Members of the public who donate funds to aid agencies should be encouraged to ask the recipients of their donations if and how they are distributing infant formula or powdered milk and encourage them to act appropriately.