Sentences with phrase «while national institutions»

The World Bank and the OECD could review the emission reduction policies and their costs, while national institutions could assess the impacts of climate change.
Research in Africa is fragmented and the actual status of research remains unclear, while national institutions are struggling to build critical capacities, develop organisational mechanisms, and formulate priorities.

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(While U.S. citizens and permanent residents can now open accounts at many institutions online, that option may not be available to newly arrived foreign nationals.)
The Canadian frontier had taught him that national differences do not fade quickly, and Germans, while industrious and personally admirable, had little experience with free institutions in their politics.
By using this tool, the chains, independent restaurants and institutions Reinhart serves can tailor their menus to address local needs while leveraging Reinhart's national scale.
The APC National Chairman called for ceasefire, while asking for mutual respect and civility so as to lubricate relationship among government institutions.
Data from the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) revealed that Bulk Oil Distribution Companies (BDCs) accounted for 7400 of the imports while government institutions imported the remaining 26 ° 0.
Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»
At present, only local organizations can individually gather evidence while institutions like Myanmar National Human Rights Commission need to work with them, added the human rights educator.
The TANs bring together a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, citizens associations, trade unions, communities and alternative media in forms of activism which target global level institutions and issues, while also attempting to use global level visibility to level changes at the national level.
We're bringing in principals, we're bringing in parents, reaching out to other arts groups... so while I feel like we're definitely feeling the cuts and we're seeing it in schools and suffering is happening with museums and cultural institutions in Chicago, at the same time there's a lot of energy and excitement about national conversations around the arts.»
However, credit transfer has become a much - discussed and much - investigated national topic in the drive to increase graduation rates while maintaining or decreasing the cost of higher education for students, institutions, and taxpayers.
We've spent a lot of time and much ink over the past few years discussing the controversial «seven breakthrough solutions» to higher education reform, the UT Regent Wallace Hall investigations, the «invasion» of The University of Texas on the turf of the University of Houston, the competition among seven of our institutions to achieve national «Tier One» status, and related side shows, while ducking the real underlying issue.
They also realized that they had to take care of distribution themselves, while also producing books in conjunction with embassies and national institutions.
While some financial institutions have a less - than - stellar reputation following the financial crisis, American Express National Bank has managed to keep its association as a brand with reliable service.
Founded on Ridgefield's historic Main Street in 1964, the Museum enjoys the curatorial independence of an alternative space while maintaining the registrarial and art - handling standards of a national institution.
Moreover, several institutions are participating with works on loan, such as the National Library of Russia, the Central Museum of Armed Forces, the regional Russian Museums of Fine Arts in Tula and Tver, the Barbarian Art Gallery of Zurich, the Botín Foundation in Santander, while the private collections of Mrs Aliki Costakis (Athens) and Mr. Vladimir Tsarenkov (London) have also granted works on loan.
Part art and part history, these letters will be archived for twenty years by participating national cultural institutions in Washington DC and re-exhibited on 21st January, 2037, historicizing one of the largest networked protests in global history while creating a time capsule for the next generation of women.
With the support of an experienced team of curators, advisors and SITE's Board of Directors, Hofmann continues SITE's legacy of presenting first one - person museum exhibitions of numerous emerging and now internationally recognized artists in addition to significant group exhibitions, while garnering SITE an expanded profile among its national and international peer institutions as well as in its own community.
The deal will see the Corcoran's art school operated by GWU, while the National Gallery will receive curatorial staff and the majority of the 145 - year - old institution's art collection.
Ace Museum is committed to providing Los Angeles with an alternative exhibition experience and dynamic programs focused on increasing the audience's capacity to engage with significant and challenging works, while fostering relationships with partner institutions to expand local, national, and international contemporary art and culture.
While teaching art at the University of Houston, Surls founded in 1979 the Lawndale Art Center, a Houston institution that is dedicated to displaying the contemporary art of regional artists and has helped bring national attention to the Houston art scene.
While the institution continued its successful partnership programming with the National Gallery of Canada, its curatorial vision suffered.
The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP)-- publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council — is to disseminate the institutions» content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability.
So while the Program adds some new institutions, it also embeds them within a coordinated policy framework of Acre, other states in the region, and the federal government including The Sustainable Amazon Plan, the Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Amazon, the National Plan of Climate Change, and The Amazon Fund.
But the point is that, while people shriek that interests corrupt, it's not just profits and careers that are being established on the back of climate change anxiety — an entire climate change industry and national and international political institutions are being constructed with the objective of changing the way we live.
GEF unites 176 member governments — in partnership with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector — to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) unites 183 countries in partnership with international institutions, civil society organizations (CSOs), and the private sector to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives.
To identify the key services and institutions that will be needed to support a successful IFCS program, this paper will examine three possible international forest carbon sequestration (IFCS) models: a fund - based approach, proposed by Brazil7; a market - based approach submitted jointly by several rainforest nations; 8 and the Forest Program for Inventories of National Carbon (PINC) approach, which focuses on rewarding a broad range of countries for increases in national carbon stocks.9 While these three approaches share the same overall goal, they are structured in different ways, and their need for support services will differ National Carbon (PINC) approach, which focuses on rewarding a broad range of countries for increases in national carbon stocks.9 While these three approaches share the same overall goal, they are structured in different ways, and their need for support services will differ national carbon stocks.9 While these three approaches share the same overall goal, they are structured in different ways, and their need for support services will differ as well.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is responsible only for ensuring the compliance of EU Institutions with data protection law while the Article 29 Working Party — which is composed of representatives of national DPAs — has no enforcement powers.
While in March 2015, Her Highness Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, launched the National Strategy for Empowerment of Emirati Women in the UAE 2015 - 2021, which provided a guiding framework and reference for all federal and local governmental institutions and civil society organisations in developing plans and work programs to empower women in all areas.
While nearly all international arbitral institutions now make provision in their rules for interim relief, national courts are often in a stronger position to...
While the institution has continued to retain the services of the same national firm for many decades, it began using boutiques in 2008 to address specific skillsets.
While undergraduate study costs relatively little for Austrian and EU nationals, postgraduate study costs can vary and depend on the institution at which you are studying.
The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,
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