Sentences with phrase «scale up efforts»

To achieve Millennium Development Goal targets for improving maternal and child health by 2015, all governments and development partners need to scale up their efforts and pay attention to what works.

Facebook had a busy November in Africa as it continues to scale up its efforts to assist SMEs on the continent.

A new campaign hopes that understanding the scale of forest destruction may help us scale up our efforts to reverse it.

Loure and UCRT's goal is to scale up efforts so that community - based land titling becomes a key component of land use planning and management that balances the needs of Tanzania's people, its environment, and economy.

With this perspective, it is important that leading companies not only scale up their efforts to reduce GHG emissions in line with science, but also that they contribute to closing the finance gap according to their respective capabilities and responsibility.

«The 1 Gigaton Coalition encourages us all to scale up our efforts to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries as a contribution to achieve the 2 degree target,» said Tine Sundtoft, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment.

This manual also hopes to raise a deeper awareness of efforts to catalyze technology transfer, and to inspire the readers to scale up efforts to address climate change challenges in partnership with the GEF.

«We hope this kind of legal action will be replicated in Europe and around the world, pushing governments who are dragging their feet on climate action to scale up their efforts.»

The human nose is more complicated than receptors for two smell molecules, so to make a true smelling device, the researchers will need to scale up their efforts.

This report requires countries to scale up their efforts to monitor and enforce national legal measures.

Urges Member States to scale up efforts to monitor and enforce national measures and to avoid conflicts of interest.

The new global development agenda replacing the Millennium Development Goals signifies a scaled up effort to tackle a multitude of complex, interconnected problems.

The promising process already has caught the eye of economic developers, who are helping scale up the effort.

Our problem is how to scale up the effort and its funding base to meet the demand.

The policy recommendations serve as the foundation for building statewide infrastructure, making funding decisions, developing public will, and scaling up efforts to achieve measurable success.

Not exact matches

However, some issuers opted to tackle diversity on a broader scale — which the study warns may wind up diluting their efforts.

Indeed, the opposite might be true: the new scale for mozzarella, they believe, is more an effort to shore up the system than a first step toward taking it down.

I'm a firm believer that saving time is the key to scaling up link building efforts, and the more tasks you can get done faster, the more spare time you have to be productive.

CIFF has indicated a significant interest in funding up to 50 % of Living Goods» costs for 2015 - 2018, with the condition that Living Goods raises approximately $ 1 for every $ 1 CIFF contributes.152 Regardless of CIFF's decision, Living Goods is actively seeking funding from new and existing donors to fill its funding gap and plans to use these funds to support scaling up in Uganda and its partnerships and advocacy team's efforts to help organizations replicate the model in other places.153

CrowdSource serves up writers, editors, and moderators for brands needing to scale their content marketing efforts.

In the letter to Yahoo's board, Microsoft said a tie - up would achieve economics of scale while allowing combined research and development efforts to achieve breakthrough products, particularly in the growing areas of online video and mobile Internet connections.

This scaling up of certification efforts is admirable, but is coming at the cost of maintaining rigorous environmental standards.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

In the past year, food manufacturers and retailers scaled up their ambitions and efforts to cut consumer food waste by standardizing food date labels, including The Consumer Goods Forum's Call to Action to standardize date labeling worldwide by 2020, complemented by enhanced consumer education of meaning of date labels.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

Developing regional pilot efforts, scaling up to cover the full region, and replicating the most effective strategies.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

In the wake of that decision, 247 mayors across the U.S. announced that they would step up their cities» own efforts to combat climate change, and adopt the Paris climate agreement on a local scale.

Gambling Industry Donates Millions to New York Politicians As Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature discuss the process of amending the State Constitution to allow up to seven new full - scale, privately owned casinos in New York, the gambling industry is funneling millions of dollars into lobbying efforts and campaign war chests.

He said he met «Saddened and pathetic Condition of IDPs in Camps», urging government, security agencies, Media Practitioners and other Humanitarian agencies to scale up a coordinated efforts in addressing the plights of IDPs and other victims of violence, as well as nip terrorism in the bud.

«We want to upgrade and scale up this project where necessary and key it into our Agro Tourism drive and effort to ensure food security for our people,» Governor Ambode said.

The Governor said the need to scale up the road improvement efforts arose from the fact that he had received many requests on rehabilitation of roads from residents, adding that many of the roads captured for 2017 were key roads that would have positive economic impact on the people.

The fire was discovered at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday behind Nice Pak Products along Greenbush Road and firefighting efforts soon scaled up to become a regional effort that included volunteers from throughout Rockland County and received aid from fighters from Westchester, Bergen and West Point.

The scaling laws tell you that despite all of the efforts of planners, geographers, economists, architects, and politicians, and all of the local history, geography, and culture, somehow cities end up having to obey these scaling laws.

If Moritz's projections are correct, however, efforts to control seasonal fires — through both suppression and pre-emption — will need to be scaled up in tandem with increased fire prevalence.

«So the scaling - up problem can be solved with a small effort.»

In the meantime, efforts to grow Jatropha — already planted in quantity in Africa and India — may be scaled up, whereas other feedstocks that can be rotated with wheat, such as Camelina — a relative of canola — will play a role.

Maze navigation can fall into a class of problems known as NP - complete, «which computers have a surprisingly hard time solving, as the effort to solve them goes up exponentially with the scale of the problem,» says chemist Irv Epstein of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.

«We believe that this work will stimulate further experimental and theoretical efforts to design new ways to scale up the synthesis of Ti3N4 at ambient pressure.»

On the basis of these findings, the authors conclude that conservation efforts need to be «radically scaled up».

Ickovics and colleagues are currently working with United Health Foundation and UnitedHealth Group, and collaborators at Vanderbilt University and the Detroit Medical Center / Wayne State University to address many of these issues and to identify factors that could impact efforts to scale up and sustainability with a new model of group prenatal care, called Expect With Me.

Several grassroots efforts and microredevelopment plans have succeeded in a few communities, but scaling them up will require broader support.

The cancer hasn't yet shown itself in North Dakota, but mounting evidence suggests that large - scale clean - up efforts should commence immediately, says Michele Carbone, a mesothelioma expert at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu who has worked in both North Dakota and the Turkish villages.

As the project scales up, Vincent hopes to find ways for this informal «peer review of the media» to receive more recognition, in ways similar to current efforts to recognize scientific peer - review activities.

A 2004 «wedges» study suggested seven massive efforts to scale up existing technology could stabilize emissions, but new paper argues we'll need much more

It is critical to continue and accelerate a robust research effort to develop an HIV vaccine that is at least moderately effective, while also aggressively scaling up the implementation of current treatment and prevention tools, Dr. Fauci concludes.

Beginning with a focused, externally reviewed strategic plan, the school collected data, conducted experiments, and scaled up the most effective efforts.

At present, there is simply no way to scale up such innovative efforts because there is no larger market for such «premium» credits as well as no interest from aid agencies.

To ensure that DOD is able to quickly scale up its research and development efforts in times of crisis, they encourage DOD to develop programs that can quickly train workers to a master's degree level in fields needed to meet DOD's needs.