"initiate efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to start or begin making an effort towards something. Example: The company has decided to initiate efforts towards becoming more environmentally friendly by implementing recycling programs and reducing their carbon footprint.
They have to initiate efforts and ways to get acceptable, consistent and accurate answer in answering the situation.
Once these "salts" have been hired, they initiate efforts to organize nonunion workers from within the company.
Supporters of Gov. Evan Mecham of Arizona, who was impeached in 1988, vowed to initiate efforts to recall any state senator who voted to convict him.
All stakeholders must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of U.S. citizens pursuing S&E studies and careers.
Having such detailed assessments will allow interested groups, for example landowners or politicians, to initiate efforts to implement policies, procedures, and/or incentives to help overcome these challenges.
"All stakeholders," wrote the workforce report's authors, "must mobilize and initiate efforts that increase the number of U.S. citizens pursuing science and engineering studies and careers".
It was during those same meetings that the Seattle Mariners initiated efforts to trade Ken Griffey Jr.
Cardinal Bertone has said that he initiated efforts to make the bank more transparent.
After observing disparate rates of cytoreduction, we initiated efforts to improve outcomes through feedback and education, and we reassessed outcomes.
Gov. Pat McCrory's office said late Wednesday that he had declared an emergency and had "initiated efforts" to deploy the National Guard and the state Highway Patrol.
He quickly initiated efforts to avoid a serious economic slowdown, pushing through the federal takeover of troubled government mortgage-loan agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
