The phrase "assistance to improving" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when referring to help or support aimed at enhancing a particular situation or skill, but it needs to be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "We are seeking assistance to improve our customer service practices."
Alternatives: "help in enhancing" or "support for improvement".
North Korea wants economic aid and investment, and it desperately needs machinery, fertilizer and technical assistance to improve its agriculture and reform its inefficient collective farms.
It did admit the new sites "were not desirable", but said the Ethiopian government had asked for assistance to improve them.
It commits the United States and the European Union to reducing protection for their farmers in parallel, and it separates some subsidies, like assistance to improve environmental standards on farms, into a category Mr. Lamy said should not be considered protectionist.
As argued by Amy Sharples in her authoritative book, The Birth of Development, international organisations were created to make the best use of external assistance to improve the welfare of the poor.
This will require weapons and training for rebel units vetted by the United States as well as assistance to improve leadership skills, and cohesiveness in both military and civilian institutions.
I thank Dr. Gurvinder Singh and Dr. Rajinder Singh for their participation in experimental work and their assistance to improve the manuscript.
Besides the funding, the projects that will receive support from the initiative will also get other forms of assistance to improve their security, including outside reviews, security audits, computing and test infrastructure, travel and other support.
Our approach presents the advantage of mitigating knowledge loss with conceptual development assistance to improve the quality of ATM care (medical diagnosis and therapeutics), but also patient safety (drug monitoring).
