The phrase "addressing real needs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance of meeting genuine requirements or demands in various contexts, such as business, social issues, or product development.
Example: "Our organization focuses on addressing real needs in the community by providing essential services and support."
Alternatives: "meeting genuine needs" or "tackling actual needs".
Edventure has been working with the town council and other charities for two-and-a-half years to find challenges that offer opportunities to young people – including those who are unemployed – while addressing real needs in Frome.
It's about listening to other people, having a longer-term view of what success means and addressing real needs that exist in the world.
The dilemma therefore remains: how far should researchers go in addressing real needs of community (beyond health-related needs) and how should they do this in ways that do not leave the community in precarious situations at the end of such support?
Likewise, in poorer countries like India, social entrepreneurs address real needs — bringing solar lamps to villages, teaching women to weave shawls and connecting them to big-city markets.
Like microfinancing, impact sourcing aims to create meaningful work for the poor, and because it addresses real needs of first-world companies, it could reach a large scale.
"Essentially, what we're trying to achieve here is to figure out how we can bring technology to address real needs, and how do we identify those needs better".
If stakeholders are not engaged early in dialogue, and not involved in pilot trials and the like, the project becomes 'yours' not 'ours', potential benefits are liable to be overlooked, and uncertainties abound that the project will not address real needs, fall short in delivering sustainable benefits, and might be obstructed by civil disobedience, industrial action or court injunction.
Are we willing to risk the health and rights of people for an as-yet unarticulated set of compromises that don't address real needs?
The financial services innovation of the Global South teach us new ways of how financial innovation can address real needs of the world's poor.
It wasn't long before Wilhelmy spotted that key flaw of civic-tech solutionism in action: coders at those events often built novelty apps that failed to address real needs.
To make them sustainable in international development interventions, human-centered design and participatory processes must play a central role, so that products are co-created with users and address real needs in local contexts.
