Sentence examples for encouraging local development from inspiring English sources

We were doing counter-insurgency focused on two things - improving village security and encouraging local development.

China used an innovative approach of encouraging local development of sophisticated stove designs and a central production and distribution system for key parts of the stove, says Smith.

Afghanistan has already tried this approach with the National Solidarity Program, an effort to encourage local development that started in 2003; villages have spent the money on schools, health care or whatever they have considered most needed.

Besides re-flooding projects, it plans to use micro-credit to encourage local development projects, such as fishing, that do not damage the bogs and may encourage locals to defend them.

But while the prosecutors who issued the subpoena, from the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, wrote it broadly, the person said that investigators made clear that they were focused on New Direction, which was incorporated in 2000 and says in its tax filings that it was created to encourage local development in Southeast Queens.

That agreement had called for hiring locally, building public access to the canal and encouraging local business development.

While a range of supportive policies and actors are required to tackle health challenges in Africa, we believe the proposed venture approach can play a significant part in encouraging local scientific and economic development while tapping new sources of funding.

The government is also keen to extend community benefits to areas where shale gas drilling is proposed, as a way of encouraging local people to allow the development to go ahead.

We expect to publish the response to our call for evidence on community engagement and benefits for onshore wind shortly, and this is exactly the sort of scheme we are keen to see more of". The government is also keen to extend community benefits to areas where shale gas drilling is proposed, as a way of encouraging local people to allow the development to go ahead.

There he encountered a black Muslim he calls Rafiq al-Shabazz running an economic development organisation.When we asked him how our churches could encourage local economic development, he handed us a leaflet accusing Arab stores of selling bad meat".That's the deal, right here," Rafiq said.

Several initiatives were undertaken in the early 21st century to encourage local economic development through renewed tourism by Western pilgrims.