UNESCO's Office in Apia funded the original development of the Open Content Licensing for Educators, and enabled the OER Foundation to adopt an open and collaborative development process including volunteers from the OER Foundation, WikiEducator, the OpenCourseWare Consortium and Creative Commons.
Aided by a 13-center research consortium group funded by the Defense Department and the Prostate Cancer Foundation and intended to speed development of medicines for the disease, researchers ultimately and rapidly enrolled 140 patients, with promising results.
Other participants in the Forum included the Aga Khan, founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network Foundation and senior representatives of several corporate giants participating in the partnership - including Nokia, Procter and Gamble, GEMS Education, Microsoft and the Packard Foundation.
Dulany put Machel together with the MacArthur Foundation, which became a primary funder of the Foundation for Community Development, the first and only grantmaking foundation in Mozambique.
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She tabled a parliamentary motion raising concerns about the prescriptive nature of the Learning and Development Requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Beyond her more recent work in corporate philanthropy -- including as the chief operating officer and founding president of the Global Development Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through 2011 -- Burwell has experience in government.
Access to clean water has always been the foundation of human development, and it continues to this day, but thankfully, most of us can now take this for granted.
Since the launch of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates has become a leading figure on the international development stage, seeking innovative solutions to extreme poverty and poor health in developing countries.
Myrna Lim is the Executive Director of the Notre Dame Foundation for Charitable Activities, including Women in Education and Development, in the Philippines since 1992.
The development of infrastructure and access to education and basic public services are not only necessary for sustainability and development in the long-term but also to serve as the foundation and catalysts for entrepreneurial opportunities today.
The Crawford Taylor Foundation, a family fund, supports animal welfare, community development, the environment and services for women and youths, mainly focusing on organizations in the St.
Under the terms of the initiative, the Varkey GEMS Foundation, in close cooperation wiith UNESCO, will provide leadership and professional development courses to improve the skills and knowledge of the school principals.
And as I said, our view here is that it's quite important for our interest and it's important for the interest of this region for the United States to put the resources in place, to continue to provide what it's provided for the last 60-plus years, which is the foundation, the platform on which you've seen this tremendous rise in economies here and social development.
Madanjeet Singh created the South Asia Foundation in 2000 as a youth movement to promote sustainable cultural, educational and economic development throughout the region.
Hosted by the Chinese Government, the Congress is organized by UNESCO with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), The World Health Organization and the European Training Foundation (ETF).
Hosted by the Government of China, it is organized by UNESCO with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), The World Health Organization and the European Training Foundation (ETF).
Naveen Jain is Co-Chairman of Education and Global Development at the X PRIZE Foundation.
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For me, we find those common values and shared principles in the United Nations Charter, as well as the body of international agreements that are the foundation of our common quest for development, peace and security and human rights.
"It's more thought of as child care for when the parent needs it as opposed to the child's development and really helping prepare for early literacy skills that are going to be the foundation for school, " said Chang, director of Attendance Works, a Maryland-based initiative that mentors districts in fighting absenteeism.
The findings provide "foundation for priority setting for food-safety interventions, policy development, research, and analyses, " the spokeswoman said.
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The Foundation aims to partner and collaborate with private sector companies, development organizations and government agencies to identify opportunities for digital jobs.
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The Seattle-based foundation is organized into three program divisions with their own president: Global Health, Global Development, and the U.S. Program.
CSOB, and local broking firms to form the Foundation for Capital Market Development.
While the environmental transformations engendered by climate change are expected to be unprecedented, existing in-depth indigenous knowledge on strategies for coping with change may also provide a crucial foundation for new adaptation measures and sustainable development in the face of climate change.
This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth.
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Mannaz's international revenues are up 10% year over year, and the firm has been commended by the European Foundation for Management Development for its leadership development programs at companies including IT firm Fujitsu.
Since its founding in 2000 with backing from Swiss-based luxury good holding company Richemont, London-based Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has raised funds to support projects that improve the educational and athletic development of children around the world.
The Linux Foundation provides a neutral environment where work on Linux, mobile and embedded development, open cloud, and more can be accelerated and advanced.
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Although FGM, or taking someone abroad for the procedure, is illegal in the UK, research by Forward (Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development) found more than 20, 000 girls in England and Wales were at risk.
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