"drive the efforts" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a phrasal verb which usually implies motivating or encouraging the efforts of others. Example: Our manager has been instrumental in driving the efforts of the team to reach their goals.
"People are usually so involved in what they're doing that it's tough to get everyone's attention," Mr. Ramsey said, adding that Ms. Fashano's popularity helped drive the effort.
This was the great animating principle behind public education and the highway system, and it should similarly drive the effort to make the right to healthcare real.
Lori Lepler, BRANDspeak's founder and CEO who helped us drive the effort, says,"Many of the cultural norms at BCG reflected the people -- largely men -- who had built the firm.
This means they must drive the effort by utilizing their law enforcement and intelligence bodies to help the Albanian government identify and prosecute mafia bosses and their supporters in and outside of government.
Cutting-edge competitive requirements drove the efforts of the stadium's designer, Hillier Group Architecture in Manhattan.
Emotion skews the perceptions of the loser every bit as much as it drives the efforts of the winner.
Nevertheless, it is also likely that this complexity, hitherto only implicitly acknowledged by the people in the field, drives the efforts to develop new systems for guidelines development.
The rate of data generation of "next generation" sequencing (NGS) drives the efforts to turn to cloud computing as a solution to handling peak-time loads, without the need to maintain large clusters [ 9].
Driving the effort is an increasing stratification of wealth, even in the private school population.
