Sentences with phrase «priority policy areas»

This data assists in informing the identified priority policy areas.

The NIC agrees that the priority policy areas for Indigenous affairs are:

The lack of resources requires the regulator to establish priority policy areas in which they will seek to monitor and enforce the legislation.

Not exact matches

The incidents reflect mounting competition for areas of Syria where Islamic State (IS) insurgents are in retreat, leaving swathes of territory up for grabs and posing the question of what comes next for U.S. policy that is shaped first and foremost by the priority of vanquishing the jihadists.

In it, he wrote, «Task Force subcommittees will also undertake a review of existing policies in the areas of charging, sentencing, and marijuana to ensure consistency with the Department's overall strategy on reducing violent crime and with Administration goals and priorities.»

They are asked to consider the economic and security outlook for Asia in 2011, the state of Canada's relations with key countries in Asia, and the priority areas for Canadian government policy in Asia.

As with some other areas of policy, such as climate change and immigration, California's priorities in the area of international trade differ substantially from those of the Trump Administration.

The strategy seeks to leverage these efforts, and identifies four priority areas where improvements can be made — policy support, business improvements, market development, and behaviour change.

Core focus is on consumer issues, although mention is made of prioritising «competition and consumer issues in highly concentrated sectors, in particular in the supermarket and fuel sectors» (nothing new here) and the policy states that some areas are always regarded as a priority, including «cartel conduct and anti-competitive agreements, and the misuse of market power».

The following areas related to competition law and policy re listed as priorities:

Of the policy areas within the metro mayor's remit, housing (12 per cent) and business support (8 per cent) are a higher priority than transport (3 per cent) or adult skills (2 per cent).

Other policy areas, like law and order, could be tailored more carefully to blue collar priorities.

Liu has rolled out a number of policy announcements over the last couple months, outlining his priorities in education, transportation and a number of other areas.

With the perceived confusion over funding for the government's free Senior High School education policy dominating the news cycle, the New Patriotic Party government needs to outline to citizens its priority areas for development, the Operations Director of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu said.

In two policy areas - cutting debt and reforming welfare - considerers believe the Tories are giving the issue the right priority.

Already, «MRC has used the outputs of the report to develop the MRC Skill Priorities which apply across all existing support mechanisms, with further discussions on improving support for skill priority areas underway,» write Joanna Robinson, a program manager at MRC, and Clare Bhunnoo, strategy and policy manager at BBSRC, jointly, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Redfield does not have much experience in policy or public health, two areas typically considered essential for overseeing the CDC and promoting its priorities on Capitol Hill.

Policy and regulation is needed in the area of [assisted reproduction] and many observers of democracy assume that the public should have a positive role in debating desirable priorities for application» [91].

The outcomes of the conference will contribute to the priority areas of the UNCCD Committee on Science and Technology as well as the Science - Policy Interface.

In particular, the Forum will consider current trends and future needs in the area of GCED and will seek to identify policy priorities and strategies for the operationalization of GCED and provide inputs to the Framework for Action on Education post-2015.

In the growing policy priority area of teacher leadership, a broad and colorful range of strategies emerged in nine of the first 17 state plans.

The Usable Knowledge website is organized around five topic areas that align with high priorities for educators: leadership and policy; learning and development; decisions through data; community and family; and teaching and curriculum.

[xi] Early reading proficiency is an important policy priority, and state legislators are right to focus attention in this area.

Although fewer principals gave the items State policies help us to accomplish our school's learning objectives and The state communicates clearly with our district about educational priorities the highest rating of «strongly agree,» both items suggest that most principals have positive views of the state «s role in these areas.

She added that her priority area for additional spending on education would be the early years, rather than schools, but hinted that she would reverse recent policies on selection and spending on free schools if she ran the Department for Education.

Abby works across a number of Data Quality Campaign's policy priority areas, conducting project specific research, writing, and policy analysis.

While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions; mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.

When equipped with this aggregate information, school leaders will be better positioned to identify specific topics to be surfaced and concentrate on the highest - priority areas for changes in policy or culture.

This issue of Policy Priorities explores the decidedly gray area of evolving policies, regulations, and practices around student data security and privacy.

This interactive website will help you as a state board member apply research - based practices to your strategic plan priorities in any or all of the the following policy areas: Literacy, Mathematics, Graduation Rates / Requirements, Teacher Retention / Engagement, Underserved Students, Career Readiness / 21st Century Skills.

Canadian School Boards Association in its priorities for 2011 — 12 identifies the integration of emerging technologies into teaching and learning in Canadian classrooms, the creation of policy to promote classroom and community / industry connections, sustainability and partnerships and the promotion of research - based practices in Canadian classrooms that develop 21st century learning skills in areas such as literacy, communication, collaboration, critical - thinking and problem solving.

This forum highlighted policy priority issues informed by best practices at the local level related to the value of intermediary organizations, quality and accountability, and school and community partnerships as these three areas are critical for influencing expanded learning and driving school change and youth outcomes.

This year, chapter leaders were invited to apply for funds for support of the following priority areas: Policy and Advocacy, Professional Issues, and Chapter Development and Capacity.

Over the past five years, the state policies have changed systematically and coherently toward Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards alignment in all priority areas — special education, English learners, curriculum, principal / teacher policy, waivers, college readiness, CTE, finance, and state assessments.

As such conservation activities remain an important priority in government policy with the notable example of having the only jaguar reserve in the world among its protected areas.

Such information is vital for setting policy priorities to promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable development for urban and rural areas alike.

This RPS bill needs to be seen in the context of DC's existing policy framework and the long - standing priorities of advocates and subject matter experts in the area.

The document also present policy recommendations in 7 priority areas to make IWT in the UNECE region more efficient and sustainable.

The Monitor highlights the regional variations to better understand differing priorities, and its national deep - dives showcase specific areas of concern for national energy policy.

Based on country interviews it considers identified priority areas like capacity building for policy makers, training, HFC alternatives technology, energy efficiency, public private partnerships, and gender balance and inclusion of women and youth in the growing refrigeration and air conditioning sector.

«It was a symbolic gesture — they were sending the message that climate change was just not a priority area for them,» said Qamar - uz - Zaman Chaudhry, advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan and author of the country's climate change policy.

Given a priority to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, it is important to further explore the drivers for the conversion of land at the frontier and to consider the effects, positive and negative, that U.S. biofuel policies could have in these areas.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

If you own a home in the Twin Cities, or are planning to purchase a home in this city, finding the right home policy is a priority, whether you live in an upscale burg or an area that could use some renovation.

Under the direction of the Ministerial Taskforce, agencies will also collaborate on the design of whole - of - government policy initiatives and proposals for the redirection of resources to priority areas and to ways of working that have demonstrated their effectiveness in achieving better outcomes for Indigenous people.

So it seems entirely plausible that the proposed university funding policy will have the effect of confining medicine to a well - off section of the community, encouraging people to work in high paying specialist fields, reducing the number of people working in low - paid «priority» areas.

To require health to be on the front pages Within 100 days the fact that Australian citizens care a great deal about health and health services will be evident from the priority given to public policy in the area by all media outlets.

This priority area will focus on research which generates new knowledge on depression, anxiety and suicide prevention across the range of settings appropriate for different stages of life, including families, early childhood settings, schools, tertiary education institutions, workplaces and the Internet and including economic analyses of these activities; and transferring this knowledge into practice, policy and behaviour change.

Adaptation Guidelines for Serving Latino Children and Families Affected by Trauma Workgroup on Adapting Latino Services, Chadwick Center for Children and Families (2008) Offers guidelines addressing a number of key priority areas to fit the needs of traumatized Latino children and families, including assessment, provision of therapy, policy, organizational competence, and more.

This year the scheme focussed on social policy research projects, and in particular on areas identified as priorities under the National Strategy for Research and Data on Children's Lives 2011 - 2016, and again required the establishment of a direct link between researchers and policy makers.