The phrase "a core capacity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an essential skill or ability that is fundamental to a person, organization, or system.
Example: "Developing a core capacity in critical thinking is essential for students to succeed in today's complex world."
Alternatives: "a fundamental skill" or "an essential ability".
Particularly welcome are the calls for greater investment from governments to build a core capacity to detect, report and respond rapidly to outbreaks, as is the idea of creating a dedicated centre for outbreak response within the WHO.
The idea is to have a core capacity at WHO.
Despite ample funds, Strowd's agency prefers "maintaining only a core capacity, rather than growing a big bureaucracy we'd have when we're done".
Change in one market is likely to impact on another thus generating a need for a self-sustaining system of multi-dimensional governance that has both a stable core capacity at transnational and state levels and the ability to flex and evolve its own mechanisms, particularly through the invention of networked private governance.
In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) published an Assessment Tool for Core Capacity Requirements at Designated Airports, Ports and Ground Crossings (7).
Although some actions should be taken immediately to address urgent issues regarding a pandemic threat posed by influenza A (H5N1), a long-term vision is required to establish such core capacity in every country.
Considering that many countries had requested for an extension on the deadline to fulfill the IHR 2005 core capacity requirements, Taiwan's experiences can be a source of learning for countries striving to fully implement these requirements.
We mapped the activities and strategies identified through the reviews of technical guidance and case-study country activities to specific country-level indicators in the IHR Monitoring Framework, creating an operating core capacities matrix.
If hearing is a core human capacity, or even if it is simply necessary for a wide variety of life plans, then engineering a child to be deaf will limit that child's future options.
Strengthening the core capacity in each country should be an essential step to improve preparedness for any public health emergency, including an influenza pandemic.
This chapter addresses core capacity planning and discusses how traffic engineering can be used as a tool to make more efficient use of network capacity.
