'this effort included' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it when referring to a particular effort or action that was made, or that was part of a larger process. For example, "This effort included gathering feedback from stakeholders and creating a detailed project plan."
This effort included building a tiny fleet to generate as much resistance as possible.
There remains no evidence that this effort included any sophisticated targeting of American voters.
This effort included monthly reports of variations in utilization among departments, which we shared with department leadership.
This effort included the in-house development of a new family of high performance ATCA I/O and timing boards.
We also have information indicating that Russia is providing training to separatist fighters at a facility in southwest Russia, and this effort included training on air defense systems...
This effort included public works from canals to seawalls to the wholesale diversion of rivers that rival today's state of the art.
A part of this effort includes tests of, for example, ice melting performance, such as melting capacity and rate.
This effort includes sycophantic documentaries, dedicated youth groups, adoring pop songs, statues, posters and those snaps of him handgliding with migratory cranes and manhandling polar bears.
This effort includes both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary activities, including applied mathematics and computer science, physical chemistry, synthetic and molecular biology, material science and molecular biophysics.
Several methods are used in this effort, including pre-license screening, post-shipment verification, and working with exporters to help them identify and avoid illegal transactions.
Hockfield specified several ways in which research universities could contribute to this effort, including sharing course materials online using platforms like MIT's OpenCourseWare.
