The phrase 'there are ongoing efforts' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where people are trying to achieve a goal but have not yet reached it. For example, "There are ongoing efforts to reduce poverty levels in developing countries."
Within Norway, there are ongoing efforts to try and revive the meat's appeal, and there are even generous government subsidies in place to try and support the industry and keep this historical practice alive.
There are ongoing efforts to build learning institutions that are necessary to support the education system.
There are ongoing efforts to solve the problem, such as this week's BBC 100 Women edit-a-thon.
After the vote, Mr Yushchenko's party may form a government with Yulia Timoshenko, the prime minister whom the president sacked last year; there are ongoing efforts to reconcile the two factions.
New topics and new ways of thinking and talking about topics continually evolve, and, although there are ongoing efforts to keep controlled vocabulary lists as up-to-date as possible, they inevitably lag behind ordinary language usage.
There are ongoing efforts to create convergence between these three global policy frameworks and health represents a cross-cutting theme.
The SENSEI framework shows that there is ongoing effort to the inclusion of physical devices in a unified infrastructure, which also benefits our work.
While there is ongoing effort to evaluate troponin and BNP during AC therapy prospectively, novel circulating biomarkers may have alternative roles in risk stratification and detection of cardiotoxicity.
Because late INa is elevated in human heart failure [ 10], there is ongoing effort to investigate possible effects of ranolazine in conditions of heart failure.
CSF biomarkers related to fundamental AD pathology hold great promise in the early and accurate prediction of underlying AD neuropathology, and there is ongoing effort to standardize operating procedures between laboratories to establish universally applicable models of AD diagnosis.
3 In recent years, there have been ongoing efforts by the National Health Service (NHS) in England to develop (a potential UK-wide) activity-based payment system for its mental health services, in what is referred to as Mental Health Payment by Results.
