Sentences with phrase «of meaningful policies»

And we are also aware that George, bereft of any meaningful policies on how to bring development to the Awutu Senya West constituency, is resorting to personal attacks against the hardworking Hannah Tetteh all with an aim to court public disaffection for her.

This could cause further delay of meaningful policy adoption.

Basic Message Template This template is an outline of a message frame for communicating about the role of budgets and taxes as an integral part of meaningful policy developments for early childhood development.

Not exact matches

Carr says the Liberals intend to have more «meaningful conversations with indigenous communities,» whose principles of land and water stewardship will be embedded in new policies and processes.

«We remain firmly convinced that an extraordinary amount of monetary policy support, including through our forward guidance, is still necessary for the present level of underutilized resources to be re-absorbed and for inflation to return to and durably stabilize around levels close to 2 percent within a meaningful medium - term horizon,» Draghi said.

But top - down policies won't bring about meaningful change, warns Yost, founder and president of the Work + Life Fit Inc. consulting firm based in Madison, N.J. Instead, she recommends that companies adopt a «partnership» approach, encouraging employees to suggest arrangements that fit their own needs while still ensuring that work gets done — and gets done well.

Their thoughts need to be about meaningful policy changes that could prevent another murder, another death, another heartbreaking act of violence.

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To sum up, once interest rates reach very low levels, the central bank still has meaningful tools that it can deploy in its pursuit of its inflation target: offering forward guidance to financial markets to enhance policy effectiveness, large - scale asset purchases, funding for credit, and pushing short - term interest rates below zero.

But, as things stand, the jury is still out on the effectiveness of monetary policy alone in heading off the disinflationary forces imported from China and its ability to push growth in any meaningful way beyond the present trajectory.

«Central bank securities purchases have provided meaningful support to the economic recovery,» he said adding later that, «we should not rule out the further use of such policies if economic conditions warrant.»

Therefore, we will evaluate our market targets thoughtfully to reflect the effects of the most meaningful fiscal policy change in more than 30 years.

Implementation of a more formal and meaningful open book policy was not easy.

Sadly that is where diplomacy has failed to even be part of anything meaningful in domestic and foreign policy.

Assessment of the price, price differential and affordability of healthy (recommended) and current (unhealthy) diets would provide more robust and meaningful data to inform health and fiscal policy in Australia.

This means there is no opportunity for the reader to make any meaningful comparisons about effectiveness of recent policy agendas to build the nation's food production and processing capacity and profitability.

«Of course, just the daily act of supporting over 1,400 organic family farmers stewarding millions of chemical - free acres and helping tens of millions to enjoy delicious organic foods is meaningful, but in today's policy and political landscape, all of that is not enougOf course, just the daily act of supporting over 1,400 organic family farmers stewarding millions of chemical - free acres and helping tens of millions to enjoy delicious organic foods is meaningful, but in today's policy and political landscape, all of that is not enougof supporting over 1,400 organic family farmers stewarding millions of chemical - free acres and helping tens of millions to enjoy delicious organic foods is meaningful, but in today's policy and political landscape, all of that is not enougof chemical - free acres and helping tens of millions to enjoy delicious organic foods is meaningful, but in today's policy and political landscape, all of that is not enougof millions to enjoy delicious organic foods is meaningful, but in today's policy and political landscape, all of that is not enougof that is not enough.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Governments, especially Health Canada needs to address and provide leadership for the meaningful implementation of Canada's breastfeeding policies.

Some of the audience agreed that policymakers need to know whether a time - series used to inform public policy decisions «really is a series» in any meaningful sense.

Nigel Bowles recently wrote on this blog that President - Elect Trump will be able to push through key parts of his policy agenda in the coming four years, because of the powers afforded to him by the US Constitution and because collective action problems within Congress will prevent meaningful attempts to block his agenda.

«We have successfully incorporated masses into all our policies and programmes as many of our projects are designed to banish poverty, hunger, unemployment and as well make life more meaningful and abundant for the citizenry», he added.

Odogwu made this assertion while appraising effort made by the Okowa led administration in Delta State to make life meaningful for the people, which he highlighted some key economic programmes for the grassroots people, which he stated that these policies were capable of tackling the challenges the people currently contends with.

I support downstream deregulation and I hope the policy is successful, but government must offer deep and meaningful sacrifices of its own.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

This might be a crude analysis - we'd certainly never counsel criticism for its own sake - but challenging policy in a constructive and meaningful way through the pages of the national press can often complement a public affairs strategy rather than hinder it.

Paula Annels, Head of Policy & External Relations at the CIOB said, «Our ambition is to stimulate new ideas and challenge the industry through a series of unique Meaningful Conversations.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

Open Buffalo is a shared vision of an equal, just, and free city driven by a united and empowered community, open to full democratic participation, innovative ideas and policies, new leaders from diverse communities, and meaningful economic opportunity and sustainable wealth creation for all.

«Words and phrases like «Conservative, Liberal, Democrat or Republican» may be avoidable habits of our expression, but they are not useful as meaningful descriptions of the manner in which our policies must be dealt with.»

Mr. de Blasio said the decision to include policies that might fall outside the city's control derived, in part, from a conversation with Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, whose long - term plans have «assumed a meaningful role for their national government.»

«Governor Cuomo has demonstrated bold leadership throughout this legislative session and budget process, both in setting forth meaningful public policy solutions to some of our toughest problems and in bringing people together to turn his proposals into reality.

This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.

In an area that does not fit the prototype of a seismic hotbed, efforts to implement meaningful policy changes have stalled, leaving the area vulnerable to tremendous damage.

She argues that understanding consumer behavior needs to be at the heart of a meaningful energy policy.

On top of that, few regulations and «fragmented governance» — the patchwork policies across all the countries» waters where sharks roam — impede meaningful shark protection strategies.

In the absence of meaningful federal action, two groups of states have gone beyond RPS and enacted direct climate policies.

In Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy, Sovacool, Brown, and Valentine make clever use of the Hegelian dialectic to take on 15 core energy questions (e.g., «Do conventional energy resources have a meaningful «peak»?»)

«There is a pressure on science education research to become more meaningful to policy and practice,» said Jan Van Driel, a professor of science education at Leiden University in the Netherlands and one of the mentors at the meeting.

In fact, ACOs achieved meaningful improvements for patients in some key areas,» said lead author of the study J. Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy and medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

A Stanford - led study examines why these otherwise remarkable and promising industry pledges often fall short of meaningful impact, and suggests a range of public - private policy solutions.

Since it was founded in 1996, the Clinical Research Forum has enabled the sharing of best practices in clinical research, informed meaningful policy dialogues and increasingly played a national advocacy role in support of clinical research.

The researchers from Georgetown University and MedStar Health representing medical research, policy, and law, say their findings may provide timely and meaningful insight into what could result from the expansion of Medicaid, a state and federal program that provides health insurance for those with very low income.

«Programs or policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful impact on the climate.»

Our core strengths in green chemistry and engineering research, combined with our role as a trusted third - party facilitator of stakeholder collaborations drives meaningful change toward solutions that 1) preserve natural capital, 2) are safe and sustainable across the product life cycle, 3) align and leverage different types of policy instruments, and 4) actively engage stakeholders to ensure equity.

After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, we found that, despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

Our freshmen do not receive their laptops until October, giving them time to review these policies and have meaningful discussions about responsible use of technology before they get their machines.

Our ultimate goal is meaningful change in policy and practice that produces substantially larger impacts than current best practices on the learning capacity, health, and future economic and social mobility of vulnerable young children.

«This policy will have a real and meaningful impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of students.

In an interview with Tes, Leora Cruddas, ASCL's policy director, said: «We welcome the letter from the secretary of state and the opportunity for deep and meaningful discussions over pay and conditions, workload and teacher qualifications.