The phrase "the issue of providing" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it in any context where you are discussing a specific issue or topic. For example, "The issue of providing healthcare for all citizens has been a contentious topic for many years."
(Climate change is sometimes seen as a new problem to worry about now that the issue of providing food is settled.
The issue of providing lawyers for inmates in parole revocation hearings is the subject of a class-action suit pending against the California Department of Corrections in Federal District Court in Sacramento.
The issue of providing settlements for senior officials in the Mugabe regime was addressed last year when the US and the UK were asked to pay into a trust fund that would ensure Zimbabwean military officials enjoy a comfortable retirement.
On the issue of providing the credentials of its contributors, is the audience supposed to deduce from the fact that Littlewood is a smoker that he works for a body funded by the tobacco industry?
The issue of providing school trips as part of a child's education is rising up the political agenda as both ministers and educationists recognise how they can enrich pupils' learning experience, boost academic achievement and make learning fun.
WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to tackle the issue of providing aid to areas ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene, a rift has opened among House Republicans over the federal government's role in providing disaster relief.
This paper studies the issues of providing fairness over multi-hop wireless backhaul networks.
The issues of providing guidance to learners were also addressed by Inventado et al. (2018) who provide a typical example of ITS research.
This is also often related to the issues of providing health-related information to other clinicians [15] or to automated systems [16], where the original owner of the data loses control over the further dissemination.
In this paper, we address the issues of providing energy in the form of reliable, economical, and eco-friendly electric power, which are broader than power system reliability defined above.
I would add that having started a business like this myself, aimed at the new home market in 2004 and experienced first hand the issues of providing home IT services, I would say the biggest issue facing each one of these services are scalability and profitability.
