The tree was in part a catalyst for the project.

Weak financial systems have often been a catalyst for broader economic crisis.

The taskforce will function as a catalyst for policy development and implementation.

Youth are the catalyst for change and development.

In Burkina Faso, WFP acted as a catalyst for a partners' sub group on nutrition.

That plan has served as a catalyst for action on behalf of Indonesia's children.

UNESCO has played an important part as a catalyst for proposals, initiatives and thinking.

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It's an incredibly powerful catalyst to change.

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In this regard, SMEs have a special and vital role because of their proven ability as a catalyst for employment generation and wealth creation.

China s real estate price bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis. But how such a downturn would unfold is far from certain.

But it is safe to say that this summit has served as a real catalyst for development advances that we have been seeking for many years.

What was significant about this exhibition is the way in which it engaged me in my role as a curator, as a catalyst, for this dialogue.

An inclusive approach based on dialogue can be a catalyst for cooperation to ensure that problems of shared resources can produce effective shared solutions.

Development assistance is a catalyst for growth, but the primary engine for economic expansion and transformational development is sound policies at the national level and accountable government.

The first step involves matching demand with supply, where the intermediary plays the role of a catalyst.

United Nations library staff will move towards a more interactive role, acting as a catalyst in and across its organizations.

It is of course our wish that our draft resolution have the broadest possible support and that it serve as a catalyst for the reform process as a whole.

The Alliance of Civilizations must be a sustained, long term action if it is to be a catalyst for a genuinely universal awareness of the importance of the task we face.

Setting a global goal in this regard may serve as a catalyst for action at all levels and encourage countries to set their own national targets to fulfil this commitment.

And, in thinking about that, then my second project, the second question I ask is Can a museum be a catalyst in a community?

These activities should be carried out in such a way as to make the programmes a catalyst for social transformation laying the foundations for lasting stabilization in countries emerging from conflict and in their regions.

We applaud the Agency's continued fulfilment of this role as a catalyst for development of nuclear technology by the developing countries and as an agent for maintaining the safe use of nuclear energy.

The network will act as a catalyst and clearing house for information, research, innovation and technology in Parliament, and facilitate the sharing of experiences and best practices to assist capacity development for African legislatures.

Reiterating that the Special Climate Change Fund should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources,

And so instead of being a developer that sees an opportunity to make money, they saw an ability to be a catalyst in their downtown.

Furthermore, the Governments of Guinea and Sierra Leone need to urgently resolve the territorial dispute over the Yenga village border area in the east, which remains a potential catalyst for trouble.

While preparing reports will be an important component of this mandate, I envision the mandate to be a humble change agent interlinking with a variety of concerned individuals and organizations as a proactive catalyst for change.

We put our trust in our President to set up the structures for ongoing work and to be the catalyst to motivate and energize us.

It is clear that capacity building operates as a catalyst of change at the level of political institutions and organizations as well as individuals.

The Special Unit was the catalyst in the creation of the NERICA Consortium for Food Security in sub Saharan Africa to implement the Africa Rice Initiative.

But these memories no longer provide a sufficient catalyst for action. We need to find a forward looking rationale that, after 50 years of integration, shows how acting together can help Europe achieve its goals in a changed global environment.

Aside from, you know, getting people excited and wondering what the heck these blue dots were all over the place, it asked the school system to envision how it might become a catalyst for a more connected community.

The findings of the mapping exercise served as an important tool in the vetting of candidates for the elections, and the risk of disqualification due to linkages with armed groups served as a catalyst for potential candidates to disarm.

These countries had embarked on promotion activities in recent years, as they were aware of FDI's potential role as a catalyst in boosting their supply capacities.

Policies and measures could be adopted to promote such subsidies as a catalyst to attract finance from other sources or to promote the creation of enterprises.

As long as the funding of operational activities for development remained inadequate, unstable and unpredictable, the system would be unable to perform its function as a catalyst for progress towards comprehensive and durable development rooted in national and international consensus.

In addition, a greater focus on results would facilitate the identification of core areas of concern (creation of modern infrastructures, water supply, sanitation, elimination of slums and shanty towns, etc.) and serve as a catalyst for implementing the Habitat Agenda as a whole.

Official development assistance (ODA) was a catalyst for development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, because development was a long term process that required the mobilization of financial, human and technical resources beyond the means of many countries.

The support provided by UNIFEM to the Ndabaga Association of Women Ex Combatants, the first organization of demobilized women in the Great Lakes region, is a catalyst for broader efforts in relation to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

The international arrangement on forests can act as a catalyst in ensuring that forests play their full part in contributing to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals.

It requires vision, commitment, and, most important, leadership. A frank discussion about America's foreign policy could prove vital to ensuring that this city upon a hill remains a beacon of hope and a catalyst of progress.

For instance, the concepts of freedom from want , freedom from fear and freedom to live in dignity have been enshrined in many religious philosophies as noble pursuits, and emulating those age old concepts in our efforts could act as a catalyst.