The phrase "a central effort of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a primary or significant initiative or action within a particular context or organization.
Example: "The initiative to reduce carbon emissions is a central effort of our sustainability program."
Alternatives: "a key component of" or "a primary focus of".
This is also, in a sense, the central effort of Clinton's campaign right now: calibrating a leftward move on trade, measuring out a more frustrated rhetoric, trying to find a logic to the emotions of economic anxiety that Trump and Sanders discerned by gut.
Fixing, or at least mitigating, the worst effects of rich nations' farm subsidies is supposed to be the central effort of the ongoing "development round" of World Trade Organization talks.
The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress.
To eliminate the cost of a central curation effort, it would be much better if each resource curated their own metadata and made it accessible to the wider scientific community.
He made addressing climate change, domestically and as part of a concerted international effort, a central tenet of his campaign platform and a top priority of his first year in office.
Restricting the ability of executives to sell company stock has quickly become a central part of efforts to change the rules under which corporate America does business.
The question of coercion is a central focus of efforts to change the criminal justice system, like the Innocence Protection Act pending in Congress, which calls for all interrogations of suspects to be videotaped.
The CBR-TWG is a central component of efforts to improve coordination across sectors and organizations and can help to ensure effective cash-based programming going forward (CBR-TWG 2015b).
The partnership's Global Plan to Stop TB 2006 2015, one of its central efforts, is a comprehensive survey of the steps and resources the Stop TB partners believe will be needed to make the greatest impact on the global TB burden.
The free movement of labor was one of the founding principles of the European Union, a central part of the effort to create a single, unified market.
