The phrase "a tool for progress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that facilitates advancement or improvement in a particular area or context.
Example: "Education is often seen as a tool for progress in society, helping individuals to achieve their goals and improve their quality of life."
Alternatives: "a means of advancement" or "an instrument for development".
For this reason, the UN office on sport for development and peace has been running a youth leadership programme since 2012, with the aim of empowering young leaders from disadvantaged communities to use sport as a tool for progress.
That has implications not just for engineers building products for the web, but also for every person who believes that the internet can be a tool for progress throughout the world.
On the one hand, if we intend to use objectives as a tool for measuring progress, we are certainly much better able to do so if we have a certain percentage figure like 20% appropriate to the year.
This generation needs to be involved in the creation of a sustainable roadmap for sport-related initiatives and the development of sport as a tool for social progress and economic development.
Titmuss' arguments against the use of incentives in blood donation had deep roots in his humanist conception of social policy as a tool for human progress that should be protected from what he considered to be exploitative economic interests.
Indicators that are generic to all projects can be combined with those that are unique (i.e. are not transferable) to individual projects thereby creating the possibility of developing a tool for monitoring progress in capacity building that could be applied prospectively and adapted for projects in different contexts.
To the contrary, it can be a wonderful tool for progress and change.
Burns is more persuasive when he writes that the court "has far more often been a tool for reaction, not progress".
This work advances discrete element modeling (DEM) as a tool for predicting milling progress for mechanical alloying, reactive milling, and similar mechanical milling-based techniques for material preparation and modification.
The results suggested that recoverable satellite-flown condition could bring inheritable mutagenic effects on tobacco seeds and maybe used as a tool for accelerating the progress in tobacco breeding.
Analyses of the Hyogo Framework reporting mechanisms revealed a number of limitations of the Hyogo Framework Monitor as a tool for measuring and reporting progress in DRR (Ishigaki and Mochizuki 2014; UNISDR 2014).
