In one sense, I'm optimistic, in that the period in which I've got to know the river over about 12, 15 years I have seen these small scale initiatives and changes which are really fascinating.
Since they are small scale initiatives, this cannot be expected to make a significant difference in reducing the number of children in institutions.
In the very beginning our strategy was limited to proposing experimental projects with the following characteristics: Small: preferably small scale initiatives, requiring limited effort and relatively easy to implement Safe: experiments free from obligations to the Centre or policy makers for example with regard to the actual use of input from stakeholders or the public.
Working mostly at a large scale, the Green Investment Bank will need a network of more local, sister banks able to provide capital for smaller scale initiatives.
This, it is hoped, will encourage the occupants to stay and improve their land instead of abandoning it and moving on to clear the next patch of virgin forest.A small-scale initiative under way near the village of São Luiz do Anauá in Roraima state provides an illustration of what the scheme hopes to achieve.
The aim -- to host events that create and nurture an artistic community at the venue – is a promising sign that a small-scale initiative to populate a declining market is now filtering out further afield.
Having as many models as possible, from small-scale initiatives to large-scale projects, will be the key to financing the necessary energy transition, Emma Howard Boyd said.
He makes fun of a few small-scale initiatives but seems to have forgotten that just recently Democrats passed a major health care reform bill.
He thought it was the work of politics to nurture such beliefs and to support them through small-scale initiatives, avoiding the temptation to replicate or scale them up to a level beyond which professional bureaucracies take over.
Although the exact number of these small-scale initiatives is constantly in flux, Sotiris Petropoulos, a researcher from the University of Peloponnese, believes that they are likely to remain a fixture of Greek civil society.
