"practical efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe the tangible actions that someone is taking to reach a goal. For example, you could say "The student has made practical efforts to help the environment by planting trees and reducing her plastic waste."
A tour of the building highlights the practical efforts to promote a multi-faith ethos.
Second, they could align diverse practical efforts on the ground in response to conflict and disaster.
His book "The Reform of Parliament" (1964) led to his participation in practical efforts to change parliamentary procedure during the prime ministership of Harold Wilson.
To assume that the practical efforts that followed from that decision were a burden would be to underestimate the degree of Mary's self-possession.
Countless practical efforts at social and political reform drew inspiration from him and his disciples (the most famous of whom was John Stuart Mill).
Practical efforts to harness fusion energy involve two basic approaches to containing a high-temperature plasma of elements that undergo nuclear fusion reactions: magnetic confinement and inertial confinement.
For the first time, the business and scientific communities are collaborating in a concrete, practical effort to help create a truly sustainable planet.
American officials insist that certain tasks—such as uniting the multitude of different opposition factions and agreeing on a vision of Iraq's future must be completed before any practical effort can be made to dislodge President Saddam Hussein.
These liberals understood that the new war could not afford to be rigidly doctrinaire; it required a practical effort to understand realities in Europe and elsewhere, in order to know what would be necessary to prevent Communism from winning over individuals and countries.
There were many versions of the resulting article, lots of feedback from near and far, fact-checking, copy-checking and double-checking, all part of the practical effort to publish something as accurate as possible in a defined space at a time certain.
Jones describes an additional assignation of "guarantor" which would identify persons who invest substantial intellectual and practical effort in the research, and who are publicly responsible for ensuring the integrity of the entire project and the final publication.
