The same holds true when you're launching a training initiative in the workplace, but in this case, the foundation isn't soil -- it's a state of mind.
NATO launched a Training Cooperation Initiative offering to share NATO training expertise with its Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) countries (Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel and Jordan) and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) countries.
Furthermore, reductions in core funds within the CGIAR [2] have seriously eroded the capacity to launch new training initiatives in recent years.
To improve bed net distribution, the programme has also launched a UNICEF-supported training initiative run by the non-governmental organization CESOR.
It expanded direct entry diploma and degree programs and in 2011 launched an accelerated midwifery training initiative that provided a one-year post-basic training program for diploma-level nurses.
In rolling out these changes, United said it has also launched employee training initiatives with the help of the Human Rights Campaign and the Trevor Project, an organization that focuses on crisis intervention for LGBTQ youth.
It has used much of the funding to launch a number of initiatives that mirror the Excellence Initiative.
It has participated in the launch of a national training initiative for social workers and a national resource centre for social work.
Facebook is launching a UK initiative to train and fund local organisations to combat extremism and hate speech.
Last month the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (BWF) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) teamed up to launch an initiative that they believe will soon start bringing training in these and other career skills to postdocs and junior faculty across the country.
NATO members welcomed seven new alliance members during the North Atlantic Council meeting, decided to expand the alliance's presence in the War in Afghanistan and to end its presence in Bosnia, agreed to assist Iraq with training, launched a new partnership initiative and adopted measures to improve NATO's operational capabilities.
