The phrase "a catalytic role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a function or position that facilitates or accelerates a process or change.
Example: "The organization played a catalytic role in promoting sustainable practices within the community."
Alternatives: "a transformative role" or "an enabling role".
But for true system change, CSOs can only hope to play a catalytic role.
Philanthropies and those they support can play a catalytic role by seeding, testing and proving new models for development financing.
But it can play a catalytic role to support change and progress when it is invested wisely, without undermining ownership and institutional development.
He not only loved jazz passionately, but believed it could play a catalytic role in the evolution of the world's music.
From 1993 to 1996, the World Bank, which has played a catalytic role in financing India's power system, simply stopped lending for power projects.
Their support can play a catalytic role in helping to defeat this ancient scourge, which is still one of the most lethal infectious diseases.
Increasingly, regulators, policy-makers, investee companies, pension beneficiaries and the public at large are expecting investors to fulfil play a catalytic role in the decarbonisation of the economy.
"We look at the journey of care and underpin that with real-time clinical information," he says, adding that IT has had "a catalytic role" in allowing this.
These countries hope aid can play a catalytic role so CDC's decision to exclude investment from slightly better-off countries, such as those in Latin America, is probably wrong.
Beyond its good looks, the $60 million mixed-use development is also playing a catalytic role in one of the poorest neighborhoods of this Bay Area city, directly east of San Francisco.
Mr. McCain, who came of age in a chain-of-command culture, showed once again that he believes that individual leaders can play a catalytic role and should use the bully pulpit to push politicians.
