Moreover, the project has created a new framework at the national and State levels, making girls education a sustained priority in Nigeria, which adopted its first Gender Policy for Basic Education.
A new global agenda for health-systems strengthening is arising from the urgent need to scale up and sustain these priority interventions.
By comparison, diarrhoeal diseases and ischemic heart diseases accounted for 5.2 and 5.1% of India's total DALYs, respectively, in 2010, making it challenging to sustain sufficient priority for HIV/AIDS programmes [38].
These bodies joined together in an effort to sustain and recover priority tiger conservation landscapes, and to build platforms to engage the constituencies needed to recover and sustain wild tigers.
He said that with the creation of the agency's bin Laden "issue station" in 1996, the C.I.A. had been engaged in a sustained, high-priority effort to disrupt Al Qaeda.
Previously, BRAC researchers found that poor retention of CHWs was related to inappropriate CHW selection, not enough income to sustain work, competing priorities with work at home and adverse sentiments from the community [ 26].
Over the years, talk was cheap, and as our understanding grew about how hard and expensive it would be to achieve the goal of finding cure(s), it became more difficult to sustain our focus and priority on doing so.
And the Everglades Foundation's Kirk Fordham said the president's 2012 Everglades plans made it "clear that this administration understands that Everglades restoration is a priority to sustain the water supply, create jobs and provide myriad economic benefits".
The company has promised not to increase its bills again until 2014 but while saying "sorry" to customers, its website still talks of "our dividend obsession", and adds: "we have just one strategic priority: sustained real dividend growth".
The UN said its first priority was to sustain the ceasefire.
