Sentence examples for programmes to raise from inspiring English sources

Training programmes to raise awareness of human rights have been stepped up.

Worst of all, from the point of view of a cash-strapped government, huge amounts of money must be spent on tax credits and other welfare programmes to raise family incomes up to the threshold.In this section Exterminate!

But the list of specific activities that can count as aid has grown to include administrative costs and spending on refugees in donor countries, estimated costs of students from developing countries, and programmes to raise the profile of development.

Ministers are to introduce intensive catch-up programmes to raise standards among the one in five 11-year-olds who fail to reach the expected levels in literacy and numeracy at key stage 2. The government has earmarked £169m over the next three years for programmes that will give 100,000 pupils one-to-one tuition in maths and writing to prepare them for secondary school.

There is a pressing need for public awareness programmes to raise understanding in this area.

The ultimate goal is for UNICEF and its partners to devise effective programmes to raise teenagers' capacity for long-term prevention of HIV/AIDS.

Mr Blunkett has outlined a sensible programme to raise school standards.

Meanwhile, Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, issued a less-than-glowing report on another expensive initiative the government's £800m programme to raise educational standards in inner cities.

Working with local resident groups, Anglian Water instigated a door-to-door programme to raise awareness and provide practical steps to dispose of sanitary waste appropriately.

Gumutindo (which means 'excellent quality' in the local language, Lugisu) started life as a quality-improvement programme to raise the bar for Uganda's disillusioned farmers.

Almost every Canadian now seems to know at least the gist of Mr Brault's testimony.Following the separatists' failure to remove Quebec from Canada in a 1995 referendum, the then Liberal prime minister, Jean Chrétien, set up a government "sponsorship programme" to raise the federal profile and promote national unity in Quebec.