The phrase 'has spurred efforts' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use this phrase in order to indicate that something has caused an effort or a series of efforts to be made. For example, "The recent UN Climate Summit has spurred efforts to reduce global emissions."
The value associated with plant-derived products has spurred efforts to engineer new production routes.
But now, thanks to press reports and unexpectedly lively debate, everyone knows that the country has about 2m opium and heroin addicts, and that the effects are tugging at the social fabric.The discussion has spurred efforts to stop the flow of Afghanistan's opium, morphine and heroin into Iran, and thence to Turkey and Western Europe.
This has spurred efforts to seek alternative forms of treatment.
And while none yet exist in the US, our unceasing opioid epidemic has spurred efforts to open the first, in communities from Seattle to San Francisco to Massachusetts.
Since the late 1970s, heavy traffic on MD 177 east of MD 100 has spurred efforts to build a bypass of the Lake Shore section or widen the highway, projects that have been opposed by residents who fear increased development on the peninsula.
It is this fact that has spurred efforts to identify disease susceptibility genes.
Increasing demand and dwindling supply of crude oil have spurred efforts towards enhancing heavy oil recovery.
Snowden's revelations have spurred efforts to tap the almost mystical properties of quantum science to make such hacking impossible.
Lower reimbursements for endoscopic procedures and increasing demand for screening endoscopy over the past decade have spurred efforts to increase efficiency in the performance of endoscopic procedures.
That attack stoked demands for revenge among Palestinians, and appears to have spurred efforts to unite Islamist militant groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Mr Arafat's Fatah under a joint military command.
Although atrioventricular junctional ablation plus pacemaker implantation is reported to be superior to drug therapy in controlling symptoms caused by atrial fibrillation, some investigators have reported no significant improvement in cardiac performance or disease progression.8 These limitations have spurred efforts toward curative therapy.
