The phrase "easing the challenge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you wish to refer to taking steps to make a challenge or task less difficult. For example, "Staying organized and keeping a to-do list are two effective strategies for easing the challenge of managing a busy work schedule."
Bringing Mr. Foer back to the magazine is expected to ease the challenge of recruitment.
One priest who is active in regional pastoral matters said the current moves would do little to ease the challenge faced by the dwindling number of local clergy.
Newly opened borders and the expansion of free trade have eased the challenge of smuggling small arms, especially those from the former territories of the Soviet bloc.
Plus, Webb said, the small reactor design eases the challenge of using nuclear power to complement the group's intermittent renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.
The doesn't ease the challenge for the New York Times (nor, indeed, the Wall Street Journal, which says that it too was attacked to find out about its China coverage).
"To tell my children that Mom would have wanted this has really been a comfort," Mr. Lichtenberg added, "and it has helped to ease the challenge of the transition".
Instead, according to Nick Faith, director of the Westminster Policy Institute, whose founders include former Downing Street adviser Sean Worth, the government will seek to ameliorate the hurt that is inflicted through a major housebuilding programme, while hoping that economic growth will ease the challenge by bringing in greater tax receipts.
CREDIT cards and A.T.M.'s may have eased the challenge of spending and exchanging money on a trip abroad, but that doesn't mean we don't occasionally find ourselves in a foreign country, fuming in front of machines that have just rejected our plastic cards.
Locating vehicle assembly near our launch site eases the challenge of processing and transporting really big rockets.
"We believe a reformed and efficient immigration system can promote economic growth and ease the challenge of reforming unsustainable federal health and retirement programs," the letter states.
