6. Relevance is relevant.
An Anglican priest once proudly summed up the relevance of his grassroots network thus: "Given the geographical breadth of our church, we often pick up information before it reaches companies we invest in".
But the Accords nevertheless are well worth remembering as a sort of slow-motion triumph for painstaking multilateral engagement, for the increasing relevance of both grassroots activists and transnational human rights NGOs, and most of all, for the empowerment of average individuals to demand their human rights.
If the entrenched wisdom is accurate, to keep momentum and relevance, parties need grassroots movements that engage the electorate.
This issue is of special relevance to NGOs in which the grassroots is a vital foundation of existence.
So at a minimum, it's reasonable to assume that Obama will continue as president, if only out of habit, to appeal to these bipartisan grassroots, even if their existence is disputed or their relevance denied in conventional political circles.
It demonstrated that involving grassroots in project design, management and implementation improved the relevance of the interventions with better sequencing of activities.
Winograd's grassroots momentum so concerned her opponent that Harman retaliated with an ideological assault of minor relevance to most residents in her district.
It is a grassroots movement that stems from scientists themselves who want to improve their work, including its validity, relevance, and utility.
Well-designed journal clubs provide an engaging lifelong learning strategy that can accomplish grassroots knowledge translation (KT) by gathering nurses together over a meal and debating the merits and relevance of recent research.
The relevance of relevance.
