Action plan

But students will be encouraged to take a more active role in the learning process.

The effort is part of the district's 2026-27 Annual Action Plan, which focuses on strengthening instructional practices across Rome schools.

Building administrators, instructional coaches, and teachers will work together to improve classroom instruction and identify ways to incorporate the framework into existing coursework.

The district also plans to support educators through professional development, instructional coaching, and continued collaboration.

Another recommendation would be to publish assessor availability statistics and continue to grow the ecosystem.

And finally, the DOD CIO could expand what they call the POAMs, the Plan of Action and Milestones.

They could expand that to 270 days, which the task force says it recognizes would require some rulemaking, but could also be added to the current what they call in-process amendment to CUI and CMMC.

So I think those are some of the really easy things that the, easy in quotes, of course, Terry, that the CIO could do to help really start to address some of the concerns around CMMC.

And she just, she was so warmly welcoming and completely bought into our project from the beginning and invited me to engage with the EBRC community the next week.

Like there was an EBRC gathering at one of the annual meetings and she was like, why don't you just come and get to know us and get to know our work? And so just to say that is a snapshot of the way that we approached the work that led to to our action plan for Congress in 25.

So we started our work in kind of spring of 23, staffing up, figuring out what the commissioners wanted to focus on, figuring out kind of some of the process stuff, like how are we going to make decisions and how are we going to test these ideas in practice? But then for about a year, we were really focused on listening because what we wanted to elicit were the policy ideas that were already incubated in the community.

the pain points that nobody had quite figured out how to deal with from a policy perspective.

And then our commissioners held a series of meetings and gatherings where both in small groups and as a full commission, to grapple with these ideas and these issues.

And eventually that came to votes.

So what you see in the commission's action plan is the product of bipartisan debate among our commissioners.

And in some cases...

It's that serious.

After getting an update on the Boston Road and Action Plan, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn said he feels that there's a disconnect about things panelists say are going well and what residents are seeing in their own backyards, himself included.

And I see them on my street in South Boston on Gold Street.

We're flooded with rats.

Luke Hines, co-chair for the Boston Rodent Action Plan and panelists at the hearing, outlined the different pilot programs different city departments have been taking on.

They discussed data collections targeting badly affected areas, giving out violations, trying out new tech to track rats, and rodent-resistant trash barrels in parks.

And so we've deployed over 25 sewer traps in the north end and in the back bay.

Zimbabwe has got a very robust framework as far as conservation of biodiversity is concerned and among the countries that are counted.

to have a very solid framework which demonstrates that the government places conservation of biodiversity at the centre of the trajectory of progress that the country is pursuing under the National Development Strategy 2. and this is exemplified by the plethora of instruments and also policies that have been updated most of them recently and also having a national blueprint for biodiversity conservation which is the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

This blueprint is chained to the Global Framework for Biodiversity Conservation, which is a 10-year blueprint for the whole world, where in 2022, we committed to pursue 23 targets and four goals and those 23 targets will do a stock tech uh we need to uh to achieve them by 2030 and the four goals by 2050 and the vision being to live in harmony with nature which is zimbabwe's uh motto yeah that is and that's the vision of the global biodiversity framework to live We want to see a world where people live in harmony with nature and very recently most of our instruments, main instruments that are assisting us to legislate, to promote and facilitate biodiversity conservation such as the Parks and Wildlife Act, the Forest Act, Environmental Management Act were updated and of particular interest was the updating and gazeting of the amendment bill for the parks and wildlife which was done last December.

And I think that brought in certain elements that were not there in the previous legislation to make it in sync with the global and regional legislation.

We are one of the first countries to have a national biodiversity economy strategy in the region, which is chained to the regional SADC, World Life Economy Strategy.

And those are actually... tools and instruments that help us achieve even the regional commitments for biodiversity conservation.

And we do have the Sadat Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan as well, an Africa strategy of biodiversity conservation and action plan.

Therefore, we have not necessarily just been ticking boxes and just flowing with the flow.

Compliance frameworks expect you to mitigate risks that could affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability, even if they don't list every hardware detail.

What does a practical action plan look like for a new deployment?

Start with inventory and classification, then implement firmware authenticity checks.

Deploy attestation where possible.

Use continuous monitoring to detect irregular activity and document all controls for audit.

The article presents a practical action plan for MSPs and SMBs.

What's the first step?

Immediate token review.

A mature program combines continuous vulnerability management, strong vendor risk management, zero trust implementation, network segmentation, MDR, and virtual CISO oversight.

And the practical action plan you outlined earlier, how does it translate into day-to-day operations?

Start by isolating affected servers, patching, validating, reviewing segmentation, enforcing origin validation, deploying MDR, activating incident response, reviewing vendor risk, updating policies, conducting training, and documenting all steps for audit evidence.

Those steps cover the entire life cycle from detection to compliance.

The regional challenge, however, is translating mineral endowment into commercially competitive value chains that retain greater value, generate jobs, and connect enterprises across member states in the Southern African Development Community, SADC.

The SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap twenty-fifteen to twenty-sixty-three, Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan twenty-twenty to twenty-thirty, Regional Mining Vision, RMV, and its Action Plan, and the Protocol on Mining provide a policy foundation for this ambition.

While the RMV's Action Plan and project pre-feasibility work have advanced elements of the agenda, uneven implementation of regional strategies, together with energy, logistics, skills, quality infrastructure, finance, and regulatory constraints, continues to limit cross-border investment and beneficiation.

According to the SADC Business Council, the ongoing process to amend the SADC Protocol on Mining seeks to strengthen the regional framework and incorporate the RMV and private sector perspectives.

Proposed amendments have undergone regional consultation and validation but are not yet in force.