Policy makers and practitioners define initiatives based on objectives of their stakeholders.
Since 2001, United Nations members have endorsed a broad but loosely defined initiative, called the program of action, for a collective effort against illegal arms circulation.
For four months, Mr. Hu has been tentatively testing that relationship in speeches quietly defining the initiatives and leadership style that will mark his tenure.
According to the organization OuiShare, borrowing heavily from the work of sharing evangelist Rachel Botsman (who runs the eponymous web portal "Collaborative Consumption"), "the collaborative economy is defined as initiatives based on horizontal networks and participation of a community" and is built on "distributed power and trust within communities as opposed to centralized institutions".
Participatory or "community-centric" EWS (CCEWS) can be defined as initiatives by a community to collect information for hazard risk detection, to enable the dissemination of warning messages among at-risk groups, and to facilitate the implementation of emergency plans or responses that can help the community reduce harm or loss from a hazard event (IFRC 2012).
Adaptation is defined as "initiatives and measures to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems against actual or expected climate change effects" (IPCC, 2007, p. 809).
Leatherman et al. [ 6] demonstrated the effects of financing misalignments on quality initiatives, defining the concepts of the business, economic, and social cases for quality of care.
Ms. Firth is a softly-softly but determined activist and she does not define her initiative as "philanthropy".
dj: In over two decades of B2B activity, as vendor, buyer, innovator, it's become clear that the cart of technology often goes before the horse of clearly defined business initiative.
Our survey focused specifically on the recently defined GPwSI initiative.
