The phrase "a mandate to develop" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where an authority or organization is giving permission or direction to create or improve something.
Example: "The government issued a mandate to develop renewable energy sources to combat climate change."
Alternatives: "an order to create" or "a directive to innovate".
In particular, the friend said, Mrs. Clinton was upset when the leadership rejected the possibility of her heading a special new task force with a staff and a mandate to develop legislation expanding health care coverage.
Tom Fox replaced Faulkner in November 2014 after joining from Arsenal and, according to the annual report, was appointed "with a mandate to develop the club's commercial activities and build resilience into its football organisation".
THE agency, a federally funded planning organization that is affiliated with New Jersey Institute of Technology, has a mandate to develop plans to move freight through the region by locating facilities on brownfields.
In an organization as large as Lowe's, $60 billion in revenue, to what extent is there a mandate to develop these ideas and then rapidly get them into production to start moving the needle on revenue growth?
Since 1991, according to its literature, the Co-op Japan Program has "encourage[d] long-term opportunities for scientific and industrial exchange between Canada and Japan," with a mandate ?to develop a pool of young Canadian engineers and scientists with hands-on experience in the Japanese work place".
Usually when the Attorney General's office is given a mandate to develop practices for data collection, or is involved in regulating any kind of technology, there is uproar.
Our motivations are driven by a real mandate – To develop a business that will make a material impact to help governments innovate through infrastructure, protect sovereignty and the assets of their people.
HUD developed the new system in response to a Congressional mandate to develop a more accurate picture and count of the nation's homeless population.
Mr. Mack said he saw Mr. Volk, 65, as a partner with a "broad mandate" to develop strategy and advise the firm's senior investment bankers on transactions.
SGRP will take an active stance on research with a unique mandate to develop new path-breaking technologies that might improve solar geoengineering's effectiveness and reduce its risks.
In many institutions, the artist-in-residence program is run out of the museum's education department with a very specific mandate to develop and complete projects with school-age children, and there may be no studio or materials for the artists or opportunities for them to exhibit their own work.
