Sentences with phrase «other national initiatives»

This includes identifying and addressing the impacts of racism on children and young in other national initiatives and inquiries such as those focused on suicidal behaviour and self - harm, bullying, and access to mental health prevention and care services..

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But it also encompasses a host of other big initiatives, including more than $ 5 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and money to help the FDA; $ 1 billion for tackling the opioid epidemic; and provisions that are meant to help pair Americans who suffer from serious mental illnesses with available psychiatric beds.

The National Bank of Egypt has joined over 200 other financial services firms, stakeholders, and regulators in technology firm R3's global blockchain initiative.

Besides the national sales initiative, other elements of the plan — digital development, new revenue sources, acquisitions, even cost cutting — turn on centralizing operations to a much greater degree than they had been already at Tribune.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Consistent with our Mission and Values, and our long - standing policies and principles, Starbucks opposes any legislation or other similar policy initiatives at the municipal, state or national level that would have a discriminatory impact.

Begun as a private initiative by John D. Rockefeller III with support from other national figures, including then Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, the commission's landmark reports were published by the Department of the Treasury in the 1970s.

We confess to being somewhat puzzled that other institutions, including the National Council of Churches and the Catholic bishops conference, have not publicly joined in the NAE initiative.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Some come from «NYC Condom,» a service of the New York City Health Department, some from other groups (like the BACCHUS Initiatives of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators).

She has been instrumental in many national initiatives, including the passing of Sabrina's Law, the writing of Anaphylaxis in Schools & Other Settings, and advocating successfully for improved food labelling.

«Our All Persons Trails initiative introduced at our wildlife sanctuaries has not only been a tremendous success statewide, it has become a national model, encouraging other groups and agencies across the country to engage their own communities as broadly as possible,» Clayton added.

The initiative was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1993, but, although improvements have been reported, 3 rates of breast feeding in the UK are still among the lowest in the world.4 5 Recent reports from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) urge NHS units to become baby friendly to improve rates of breast feeding and save money.4 6 Data from the millennium cohort study, however, show that though participating maternity units in the UK increased rates of initiation of breastfeeding, duration did not increase.5 Other strategies are therefore required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended time.

«These efforts include National Prescription Drug Take Back Days and other initiatives like this one to facilitate the collection, and safe and responsible disposal of unused medications.

Of course, others, such as the National Audit Office and the Institute for Government's Whitehall Monitor team also hold the government to account by scrutinizing reform initiatives against such data as is available.

«The snag that has previously hindered a valid national restructuring in Nigeria is the genuine fear of every past leader of the country not to preside over an unintended consequence of such initiative like the break up of the country among others»

Paterson says he hopes his initiative will «set an example for how other states might consider softening the blow that people who get caught up in this web of the national immigration laws are experiencing.»

According to Nweke, our bank is a bank with strong affiliation to youths, evident in the Bank's scholarship and grants schemes through the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition amongst other educational initiatives.

Earlier attempts by the NPP to launch such an initiative had been plagued with similar misunderstandings when the party's suspended General Secretary, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong and National Treasurer, Abankwa Yeboah in September 2015, both launched parallel fund raising electronic cards for the party, leading to serious credibility crisis as both camps dismissed the others» initiative as fraudulent.

Some of the tools to achieve this are in Scottish hands, including control over aspects of the financial regime for renewable generation, but other matters remain under London's control, not least energy taxes and market regulation, the National Grid and engagement with any EU and international initiatives.

Part Two still focuses on Buffalo and Niagara Falls, but about 20 percent of the initiative's proposed funding would go to other Western New York communities, from $ 5 million in financing to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown to a $ 20 million contest for 18 municipalities to compete for funding for downtown revitalization projects.

«The 80 by 50 challenge is a significant goal and will require fundamental changes, which means that the early cost savings and sustainable applications of Schenectady and National Grid initiatives could serve as a model for other communities and utilities,» McCarthy said.

As the national association and accrediting body for CACs, NCA serves as a voice for the movement before lawmakers, funders, and other decision - makers, leads initiatives that advance and support the CAC mission to provide healing and justice for child victims of abuse, and ensures quality care for the children and families our members serve.

He said Ghana has moved up five places in the Africa competitive skill which looks among other places at how open economies are to international trade, adding that the national single window initiative is one of the key component that has helped Ghana to achieve this improvement.

While acknowledging the sensitive and volatile nature of the Nigerian National Question and the rigorous, expensive and delicate process to be undertaken for a legitimate restructuring, Okunniyi noted «The snag that has previously hindered a valid national restructuring in Nigeria is the genuine fear of every past leader of the country not to preside over an unintended consequence of such initiative like the break up of the country among otherNational Question and the rigorous, expensive and delicate process to be undertaken for a legitimate restructuring, Okunniyi noted «The snag that has previously hindered a valid national restructuring in Nigeria is the genuine fear of every past leader of the country not to preside over an unintended consequence of such initiative like the break up of the country among othernational restructuring in Nigeria is the genuine fear of every past leader of the country not to preside over an unintended consequence of such initiative like the break up of the country among others»

The President of the National House of Chiefs also commended government for other initiatives such as the industrialization policy and the fight against corruption and environmental degradation.

The National Sanitation Brigade adds to other initiatives, including the enhancement of operations of tricycle rubbish collectors, and the construction of mini-transfer stations, to improve sanitation and aid the disposal of waste.

Katko said he has already decided to support two other initiatives: A federal ban on bump stocks, devices that enable a semiautomatic rifle to fire faster; and a bill in Congress aimed at strengthening the National Instant Background Check System, or NICS.

Present at the event were Oyo State Governor «s wife Mrs Florence Ajimobi; her Ondo State counterpart, Mrs. Olukemi Mimiko; wife of the deputy governor Mrs Janet Adeyemo; Mrs Awa Idris, Mrs. Abiodun Arapaja; Iyalode of Ibadanland Alhaja Aminat Abiodun; Alhaja Bose Adedibu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Mrs Precious Gbeneol; Minister of State Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Oloye Jumoke Akinjide; National Coordinator, Women for Change and Development Initiatives, Princess Rabi Ibrahim; wife of former Oyo State Governor Alhaja Mutiat Ladoja and others

I attended the daylong «National Convocation on Revitalizing the University - Industry - Government Partnership in Support of Research in Science, Engineering, and Medicine» in hopes of learning about initiatives to help students and postdocs who are preparing to leave academe and find careers in those other, unfamiliar sectors.

Added Shirley Malcom, head of Education and Human Resources programs at AAAS, «We look forward to expansion of this initiative to other units, to help citizens across the nation recognize the importance of science in the preservation and management of our national parks, often referred to as «America's Best Idea.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

Holdren walked through the policies and initiatives former President Barack Obama set into motion with his 2009 inaugural pledge to «restore science to its rightful place,» and laid out what is needed to preserve the capacity of science to advance «economic prosperity, public health, environmental sustainability and national security, among other laudable aims.»

As Aschenauer pointed out, «There are a lot of initiatives in the world to measure this asymmetry in electron - or muon - proton collisions, using fixed targets at other facilities such as COMPASS, HERMES, and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.

When analyzing research projects listed in the NCI Funded Research Portfolio database my team found that the combined research funding dedicated toward this initiative and other physical sciences - based cancer research only accounts for less than one percent of the annual research budget of the National Cancer Institute.

In conjunction with the interdisciplinary activities of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), a seminar series on topics in mathematical biology will be hosted at NIMBioS every other Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in Room 105, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Seminar speakers will focus on their research initiatives at the interface of mathematics and many areas of the life sciences.

The committee also calls attention to the potential for very cost - effective and scientifically fruitful advances with the advent of long - duration (10 - day) balloon flights and the expected availability after the final 2 years of development of ultralong - duration (up to 100 - day) balloon flights (see the section «The National Virtual Observatory and Other High - Leverage, Small Initiatives» in Chapter 3).

Managing and developing NanoMalaysia Centre and other approved Strategic Infrastructure and Facilities for the NND [National Nanotechnology Directorate Division] Pre-commercialisation and commercialisation of nanotechnology products Education and public awareness programmes Bringing in venture funds and international investments in nanotechnology Building capacity and R&D facilities Health, safety and environmental initiatives International linkages and networking

Researchers involved in the initiative are developing, among other things, a way to search high - resolution satellite images to detect the «container» habitats preferred by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, said Paul Bieringer, PhD, a scientist with NCAR's National Security Applications Program.

New York About Blog Opera Teens is a national initiative to empower high - schoolers to pursue their interests in opera, share opera learning with others and leverage the power of opera to serve local communities.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

The World Wildlife Fund has launched a national environmental education initiative to teach students that their lives are interconnected with those of plants and other species of animals.

Speak Up, a national initiative of Project Tomorrow, surveyed students, teachers, parents, and others in fall 2010 to determine the benefits of certain types and uses of technology for teaching and learning.

• In Hudson, enthusiasm from the community for the character education program and other district initiatives is one measure of success; others are SAT scores that exceed national and state averages and the percentage of graduates (79 percent) who pursue postsecondary education.

The free school programme has delivered new schools faster than any other school building programme and, according to the National Audit Office, at significantly less cost to the taxpayer than previous initiatives.

From the other side of the spectrum, the National Endowment for the Arts has made a major push around what they call Artscience initiatives, including hosting an event this June about the intersection of art, science and technology.

That initial study and others that followed have stimulated national interest and growing financial investment in high school graduation and college - readiness initiatives.

The 1977 Tbilisi Declaration established a framework for formal and non-formal EE activities at the local, national, and international levels and provided «fundamental principles for the proposals» in Agenda 21 and a set of other documents and global initiatives that followed.

As national director of strategic initiatives, McDonald has helped expand Genesys Works into other cities.

Like other schools in the Algiers charter network, Behrman was implementing the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a national initiative to help teachers improve their instruction methods by learning from experienced colleagues designated as mentor teachers and master teachers.