Sentences with phrase «social programme for»

Studies of periods of tight labour markets like the late 1990s and 1960s make it clear that the best social programme for disadvantaged workers is an economy where employers are struggling to fill vacancies.

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It spent a further 140 million roubles in 2016 for general financing of social programmes across Russia, the report said.

25,000 users sued the social network for «illegal» tracking of their data and its involvement in the NSA's surveillance programme.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

The poor and their fate thus become the yardstick for judging all social, political, economic, religious and missionary developments and programmes.»

These movements were criticized in the further development of theology for their naive identification of Christianity with a social programme and their failure to recognize the limits set by sin to any human accomplishment.

Renmin Vizconde, Advocacy Officer of the Philippine Network for Food Security Programmes added that «malnutrition and its resultant blindness exist because the basic rights of the farmers and people to land, livelihood are disrupted, due to government neglect and absence of social services, and not because the rice variety they consume does not have Vitamin A. Golden Rice is baseless, unscientific and nothing but a sensationalized product of giant agro-chem corporations to lure super-profits.»

As part of our commitment to responsible marketing, we comply with the social responsibility policies established by DISCUS — the Distilled Spirits Council for the United States and spiritsEUROPE — the European representative body for producers of spirit drinks, which set out the principles we maintain in all of our sales and marketing activities, including advertising and promotional programmes.

Whole Kids commits 1 % of sales to a non-profit organisation called One Percent for Our Kids to help fund and support projects and programmes to improve the health, environment and social equity of children.

Individual fathers» programmes and social care workers have been trying to help vulnerable fathers into education, training and employment for some time (Fathers Direct, 2002 - 2006; Mincy & Pouncy, 2002).

They, and the supporting research summaries, are intended for an international audience of health, education and social care professionals, policy makers, programme managers and designers, researchers and evaluators.

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

Osinbajo said the Social Investment Programme launched in 2016 — comprising a jobs scheme for unemployed graduates, a feeding programme for public primary school pupils, a micro-credit scheme for small businesses, and a cash transfer scheme for our poorest and most vulnerable households, is a key component of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.

«According to the plan of the Buhari administration, the N - Power Teacher Corps programme is an invaluable opportunity for young Nigerians to make immense economic and social contributions to the nation while developing their skills.

She has also served as a consultant to the Salzburg Global Seminar, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the Cairo Regional Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA), Social Surveys Africa and the United Nations Volunteers» (UNV) programme.

The statement further read thus: «It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari in his May 29th Democracy Day broadcast to the nation formally launched the unprecedented social investment programmes already provided for under the 2016 Appropriation by the administration.

What is clear is that a radical programme for British and continental European social democracy is unlikely to emerge from «ivory tower» blueprints, rather through a constant process of «bold, persistent experimentation», in FDR's memorable phrase.

Every Secretary for Scotland could demand 11 / 80th of E&W spending of every social programme, as a floor not a ceiling.

Our social protection programmes like youth engagement and empowerment, women development and empowerment, care for the aged and care and rehabilitation of the destitute have won laurels and hoisted for others to duplicate.

The government is hurtling towards the EU's emergency exit with no credible plan for the future of British trade and European cooperation, all the while ignoring — beyond soundbites and inadequate programmes — the crises of housing, education, the NHS and social and regional inequality which are undermining the fabric of our nation and feeding a populist surge.

Governor of Osun state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Tuesday praised the Federal Government of Nigeria for the success of two major socially impactful welfare programmes which it said would go down to ease social tension and motivate the poor.

«With the impact of two programmes of the Rauf Aregbesola administration in the state of Osun in our six years of, the Osun Youths Empowermemt Scheme (OYES), and the social protection programme for the elderly (Agba Osun), there is no doubt that the Federal Government has found solutions to many of the factors at the heart of Nigeria's socio - economic complications; attenuating poverty,» Okanlawon reiterated.

[6] They also argue that IMF programmes increase social spending only in Sub-Saharan countries, which spend considerably below the world average for social services.

The great New Deal pension programme, Social Security, is ripe for privatization — an ambition of the Bush II presidency subverted by the fallout from 9/11.

The argument that IMF programmes increase social spending might be surprising for the scholars working on the Fund programmes.

The same logic operates for social housing programmes and anti-housing discrimination to which Trump's controversial appointment — the African American surgeon Ben Carson — has already indicated his hostility and intention to reverse.

Plaintiff avers that as a duly registered political party in the Republic, she is entitled to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for election to any public office subject to the Constitution and other laws consistent with the Constitution of Ghana.

In spite of some good measures in recent years - Sure Start and the Academy programme for instance - social mobility has stalled.

The CCG has, meanwhile, commended the current administration for its resolve to better the lots of Ghanaians through the laudable social intervention programmes.

Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units.

Caterers in the Upper East Region say they will resist any attempt by the Ministry of Gender Children and Social Protection to impose on them rice that cost GHc180 per bag for the school feeding programme.

Melaye said, «Also, N500bn was earmarked for the social investment programme of the Federal Government, but we have not seen any impact.»

His Minister of State for Budget, Ahmed said that the social intervention programme encountered teething problems even as she believed that the issues would be completely solved in the 2017 budget to meet the objective of the scheme.

The Fabian Sidney Webb, who had, along with Henderson, been instrumental in conceiving Labour's 1918 programme «Labour and the New Social Order» which had committed the party to nationalisation (Clause IV), was appointed President of the Board of Trade; another Fabian, Lord Olivier, became Secretary of State for India.

Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)

«There were also no application forms or fees for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) of the Social Investment Programmes.

The proposed EIF would provide a «gold standard» for programmes like the family nurse partnership, which provides young mothers with intensive parenting training, and the social and emotional aspects of learning (Seal) programme at primary schools.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Dr (Mrs) Ayinke Saka, disclosed that the state government under the first phase of the programme empowered 350 women across the 16 LGAs.

He suggested that the NDC leadership should prioritise the establishment and operationalisation of a training school and programme for elected party officers at all levels to ensure that the next generation of party executives and leaders are people of integrity and are able and willing to defend these ideals of social democracy so as to make the NDC more competitive in future elections.

Yet, for the society's most vulnerable, Osun has pioneered this schools feeding programme, as part of its larger social safety - net agenda.

The plan itemizes the approach towards investing in people, including promoting social inclusion through social investment programmes for the vulnerable and targeted programmes for the North - East and Niger - Delta, job creation and youth empowerment and investments in human capital while outlining the competitiveness imperatives as enhancing infrastructure (power, roads, rail, ports and broadband services, and leveraging public - private partnerships (PPPs)-RRB-, improving the business environment through the initiatives under the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and promoting digital - led growth.

But it did reveal that the Budget's title would be «Building a Britain Fit For The Future» — a phrase which is already being seen by - word for cuts programmes across the NHS, social care, local councils and even Transport for LondFor The Future» — a phrase which is already being seen by - word for cuts programmes across the NHS, social care, local councils and even Transport for Londfor cuts programmes across the NHS, social care, local councils and even Transport for Londfor London.

The President revealed that Ghana has taken up the challenge of the SDGs, and has captured them in its co-ordinated programme for economic and social development policies, which, in accordance with the dictates of Article 36 (5) of the Constitution of the Republic, will be presented to Parliament in its next session, starting in October.

The Conservatives have announced a new programme designed to use the 700,000 currently empty homes in England for social housing.

Raufnomics, coined by Aregbesola's associates, was launched last year as a shorthand for his profitable use of strategic planning and an innovative economic model to transform the lives of the people of Osun through mass - based and people - centered programmes and projects, especially in education, health care, infrastructural development, youth employment, and social welfare.

According to him, social protection policies remained a mix of policies, programmes and projects designed for individuals and households throughout lifecycle aimed at ensuring that poverty, hunger among other social challenges are eliminated in the society.

«As such, it is imperative to commend the state government of Osun for being focused and committed to the welfare of the people of the state through his prompt provision of social protection programmes.

The prime minister followed Jeremy Corbyn on the Channel 4 News / Sky News «Battle for Number 10» programme and was challenged by members of the public on reductions to police numbers, the Conservative plans for social care, and cuts to school funding.

The governor asserted that the plethora of development initiatives, especially the Social Security Scheme and the Youth Volunteer Programmes, which his administration introduced, attracted the World Bank to Ekiti as pilot state for its Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO).

Okunmadewa explained that the YESSO programme was a welfarist intervention programme of the World Bank aimed at reducing poverty by allowing poor people access to increased opportunities for youth employment and social service delivery.