The phrase "a prerequisite for progress" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that is necessary or required in order to achieve advancement or improvement in a particular area.
Example: "Education is often seen as a prerequisite for progress in society, as it equips individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed."
Alternatives: "a necessary condition for advancement" or "an essential requirement for development."
Neighbourly relations are a prerequisite for progress towards the EU.
"Although change is not synonymous with progress, it is a prerequisite for progress".
The reforms were also considered a prerequisite for progress on global trade talks.
Mr. Kohl declined to set a timetable for the completion of such measures except to say that they should be carried out "as quickly as possible". He said such internal steps were a prerequisite for progress in the international negotiations on reunification, in which the two Germanys will deal with the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Britain.
It is a prerequisite for progress in the development of radiation therapy.
We thus recommend them for use in clinical studies and encourage further linguistic validation into other languages to improve available research tools as a prerequisite for progress in clinical research on hypothyroidism.
In addition, he had to convince the Congress Party, as a prerequisite for political progress, of the necessity of settling the Hindu-Muslim conflict.
Most civilisations are ultimately predicated on slavery because releasing a segment of the population from the constraints of work-to-live is a prerequisite for human progress.
"Movement in the North-South dialogue has always been a prerequisite for any progress in the North Korea-United States relationship," Victor D. Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University, said today in a telephone interview.
"It's not just the brain it's the mind as well, but we have to accept that understanding the biology, the neuroscience, is going to be a prerequisite for making progress on these conditions and in developing more effective treatments.
Improving service delivery at all levels of care is a prerequisite for making progress towards UHC.
