The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) is an ambitious marine conservation and governance program engaging six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia that has attracted significant international support, including an investment of over $40 million from the United States through the five-year U.S. Coral Triangle Initiative Support Program.
With Initiative support, grantees are connected both geographically and thematically with key players in disease surveillance at the global, regional, and local levels.
Additionally, Initiative support has facilitated substantial interaction not only among different networks, but also among different sectors (e.g., animal and human health, livestock, agriculture, transportation, security, immigration).
In collaboration with the Pacific Malaria Initiative Support Centre, village-based mass blood surveys were conducted and malaria-positive samples were genotyped to determine the prevalence of chloroquine drug-resistance polymorphism within the Pfcrt gene.
The agency is working with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) and relevant partners to revitalize the Baby Friendly Initiative, support a national infant feeding strategy, improve ante- and post-natal care and boost resources for new mothers at the community-level.
UNICEF and IKEA Social Initiative support schooling for ethnic minorities in Viet Nam LAO CAI PROVINCE, Viet Nam, 15 April 2009 – As part of her morning routine, Thao Thi Mao dropped off her young son at the Ban Pho Pre-school, set against the dramatic backdrop of the northern hills of Viet Nam's Lao Cai Province.
British officials tried valiantly to describe the initiative, supported by Canada, Indonesia and Australia, as a seminal diplomatic realignment.
Since 2008, however, Bonsucro – formerly the Better Sugarcane Initiative, supported by WWF – has been courting a more mainstream market.
In New York State, Gov. David A. Paterson has announced a "Healthy Foods, Healthy Communities" initiative, supported by a $10 million revolving loan fund.
Google.org's fourth initiative supports the development of renewable energy sources that are cleaner and cheaper than coal.
Joanna Shaw is director of the Medicines Partnership, an initiative supported by the Department of Health which aims to help patients get the most out of their medicines.
