The Microfinance Catalyst

The EU s Kosovo Catalyst

The tree was in part a catalyst for the project.

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

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

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

It's an incredibly powerful catalyst to change.

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

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.

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.

Youth are the catalyst for change and development.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Bank s staff is highly professional, and would accomplish much more if freed from the dominance of narrow US interests and viewpoints. The Bank has the potential to be a catalyst of progress in key areas that will shape the world s future.

According to the government, the main objectives in moving the Bank away from direct government control were to increase public confidence, to provide a customer focus to banking, to expand the services that could be offered and to act as a catalyst for private sector business.

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.

The process in question involves the reaction of vegetable oils with an alcohol (ethanol or methanol) in the presence of a catalyst to produce the diesel (with glycerol as the by product).

The transfer and adaptation of innovations in governance should also be enhanced by (a) strengthening the role of the Secretariat as a catalyst in the transfer process (b) preparing customized guidelines for the transfer of successful practices and other training material and (c) providing leadership capacity building programmes on innovations.

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 presence and direct involvement of foreign military forces in the Republic of Moldova and in Georgia has become the main catalyst of these conflicts.

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.

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.

Recent research has shown that nutrition can be a major catalyst of inclusive economic growth, with each dollar of investment yielding a return of 15 138 dollars. Defeating malnutrition is not only an ethical duty we also know that it can boost GDP growth in Africa and Asia by up to 11 .

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.