"poor initiative" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an idea or plan that is ill-advised or thought out poorly. For example, "The team's poor initiative resulted in a complete failure."
Speaking together on BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme, the two church leaders said the launch of the Listen To God: Hear the Poor initiative would draw attention to the role the two churches played in providing help for the poor.
It's pretty dramatic," says Bob Christen, head of the "Financial Services for the Poor" initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Making it easier, quicker and cheaper to transfer money has enormous social and economic benefits.
But the escalating numerical projections, which have grown each year as the United States has deepened its involvement in the war, have yet to undo these forces' reputation for poor initiative, corruption, marginal skills and an enduring dependency on foreign supervision for everything from resupply and fire support to actions that should be routine, like standing post.
We commit, on a voluntary basis, to funding programs that achieve this objective, such as the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program and the Energy for the Poor Initiative, and to increasing and more closely harmonizing our bilateral efforts.
This grant to the MMU programme is part of the foundation's Financial Services for the Poor initiative, which is working with a wide range of public and private partners to harness technology and innovation to bring quality, affordable savings accounts and other financial services to the doorsteps of the poor in the developing world.
"Traditional financial services are often too costly and inconvenient for people who earn less than US$2 a day to obtain, and too expensive for banks to provide," said Bob Christen, director of the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Although the party has been criticised for the patchy implementation of its pro-rural poor initiatives, there is a recognition that the scale and ambition of programmes such as the national rural employment guarantee scheme (which promised 100 days of work at minimum wage salary for everyone) have begun to make inroads into the extreme poverty which remains in much of India's rural heartland.
Health insurance exists as an essential pro-poor initiative and despite its enormous benefits, evidence suggests that maternal healthcare utilisation especially Antenatal Care (ANC) attendance and supervised delivery are still induced by maternal wealth status in some countries [10].
The NHIS is intended to be a pro-poor initiative with a graduated premium payment that is based on socio-economic status [ 19], but in reality is it really the case?
The NHIS is intended to be a pro-poor initiative with a graduated premium payment that is based on socio-economic status, but in reality, premium payments are generally flat due to the practical difficulty in classifying subscribers according to their relative socio-economic status.
Until last year, only a few billions of debt had been wiped out under the highly indebted poor countries initiative.
