Sentences with phrase «on aid agency»
As well as the graphics and data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkit.
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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.
Some 20 countries and major aid agencies rely on the tablets in emergency and disaster scenarios; the tablets have agricultural applications too.
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 Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) could improve its development aid impact by focusing on basic education, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute.
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
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 ovaid 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 ovAid, Tearfund and many others, families are more likely to survive conflict and to get back on their feet once the fighting is over.
A large family of seven is surviving on a handful of sweet potatoes and assistance provided by aid agencies.
«It has left communities even more reliant on outside aid, stretching humanitarian agencies and local authorities to their limits.
Due to some very serious illness and I don't mean HIV / AIDS I am having to go on disability but they want me to have a payee 11 years since a conviction, Makes you want to Go to the streets and do it for yourself, also if you have no transportation how do you suppose the people get to the agencies to get help even a van ministry requires funds?
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).
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.
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.
In 1996 he assembled a book on private aid agencies, and in 1997 a book about the civil sector and aid in Mozambique.
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.
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.
UN and aid agencies all agree that humanitarian relief programmes must include training on how to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, as well as how to support non breastfed children in ways that do not undermine breastfeeding.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, «UNICEF remains captive to a clutch of activists who have been leading boycotts and protests against the baby formula makers since the 1970s on the highly spurious grounds that the companies trying to supply better nutrition «exploit» the poor... If the toll of African AIDS babies continues to rise, the credibility of one of the most beloved UN agencies may sink.»
The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.
We are calling on the Law enforcement agencies and the government to come to our aid.»
«I urge Lagos State Aids Control Agency to continue to sensitize the public, on the negative impact of discrimination against people living with HIV and AAids Control Agency to continue to sensitize the public, on the negative impact of discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDSAIDS.
Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).
To avoid cuts in services, local aid or tax increases, the Executive Budget directs State agencies to be more efficient and focuses resources on their core programs and services.
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When the agency directors meet on March 30, they are expected to approve $ 425,000 in allocations — part of its external special projects budget — to help finance a local labor market assessment study, a plan to generate more development leads from Canadian firms and aid the operation of the Beverly Gray Business Exchange Center on Buffalo's East Side.
He noted that the government's quest to build an economy independent of foreign aid and support will greatly rely on the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MMDAs.
To aid low - wage workers, Cuomo would crack down on the fees charged by employment agencies.
Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trips.
Representatives from several local agencies including, the Southern Tier Aids Program, Lourdes Substance Abuse Prevention, and Broome Country Drug Court, will be on hand to distribute information and answer questions including:
Though the administration said the focus on aid was strong, when two Cabinet secretaries spoke at a conference on another subject — including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose agency is helping restore the island's power — neither made any mention of Puerto Rico or Hurricane Maria.
The humanitarian fallout from the conflict is also huge and aid agencies say it is too big for the country to handle on its own, heaping pressure on already overstretched resources.
Meanwhile, the Ankobiahene of Nkonya, Nana Ampem Darko, also shared his thoughts on the matter on Eyewitness News, saying he was saddened by the killings and called on people of Nkonya and Alavanyo to aid the security agencies to take action.
Hill, who has headed the AIDS agency since 2006, started a paid leave on July 1 and will return on October 1.
The sector employed 74,128 workers in 2012, which accounted for 6.2 percent of all employment on Long Island, according to a report prepared for Empire State Development, New York's primary business aid agency.
Similarly, the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS sent a staffer to read a statement from C. Virginia Fields, the agency's president and CEO.
The head of New York City's public hospital system said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has agreed to disperse hundreds of millions in aid to the agency, ending a funding dispute that left the hospitals dangerously low on cash.
The agency that has helped victims of HIV / AIDS for the past 30 years in central New York will soon be taking on a new responsibility.
Diaz's opposition to LGBTQ rights dates back to his denunciations — while serving on the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the city's police oversight agency — of the 1994 Gay Games in New York, which he warned would lead to a spike in AIDS cases and to greater acceptance of homosexuality.
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The agency also plans to reprogram $ 65 million of its AIDS research grant funding this year to focus more sharply on ending the epidemic.
Last year, NIH Director Francis Collins announced that the agency would shift its AIDS funding to focus more directly on vaccines and treatments.
Josef Decosas of the Canadian International Development Agency believes that policy makers must focus on overall health in developing countries, rather than malaria, or AIDS, or TB, or any other single disease.
But CSIRO Staff Association Secretary Sam Popovski in Melbourne said the «backflip» on climate science capacity was «merely a Band - Aid» given that the agency is proceeding with the staff cuts.
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation)- Health workers are rushing to the site of a fresh Ebola outbreak in Guinea to bolster efforts to contain the virus and prepare for the likelihood of more cases, aid agencies said on Friday.
On 11 October 1988, AIDS activists shut down the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration, protesting that the agency was dragging its feet on approvals for promising new drugs while thousands of patients were dyinOn 11 October 1988, AIDS activists shut down the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration, protesting that the agency was dragging its feet on approvals for promising new drugs while thousands of patients were dyinon approvals for promising new drugs while thousands of patients were dying.
The report's conclusions and recommendations are all too depressingly familiar: development agencies need to take account of HIV and AIDS in all their activities; HIV is much more than a mere health problem; women's social and economic status must be improved, and so on.
In Tanzania, meanwhile, the US Agency for International Development has backed a project to help eight AIDS - affected villages on the Indian Ocean develop enterprises such as paprika cultivation and fish farming, while bringing in theatre groups to perform plays that discuss HIV and AIDS.
Rao has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and other international agencies and has contributed to policies on epidemics like AIDS, avian influenza and swine flu.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) NIAID is the primary agency of the US government devoted to research on HIV / AIDS and the sponsor of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.