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What Businesses Operating in Vietnam Can Do about Climate Risk
April 22, 2021
All companies with business operations or supply chains in Vietnam need to know that the country is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change — and need to be aware of the ways they can build resilience. Just last October, two mega-typhoons flooded communities, displaced families, and took lives in what is becoming an all too familiar […]
The Climate Q&A…
March 23, 2021
How did you become interested in water issues? After college graduation, I joined the Peace Corps, which put me in water and sanitation for two years in Peru. After that I attended graduate school to study public administration. I joined Winrock in 2013 on a fellowship with the Congressional Hunger Center to work on food […]
The Climate Q&A…
March 18, 2021
What are the chief goals for Winrock’s environment and energy work this year? With the re-set of U.S. engagement on climate change, we’re at an exciting juncture both with the Environment and Energy (E2) group and more broadly across the organization. We anticipate significant opportunities to expand our mitigation work in land-use and low-emissions development. […]
Choosing to Challenge the Digital Gender Divide for Safe Migration
March 15, 2021
By Leanne Melnyk, Head of Global Supply Chains, Diginex Solutions, and Sung In Marshall, Associate Director, Worker Engagement, Elevate Limited This article was originally published by Diginex and Elevate Limited on March 8, 2021. What is the digital gender divide? The digital gender divide is the gap between girls’ and women’s access to technology and […]
Webinar Features Winrock’s Mary Grady on Forest Conservation at Scale with Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART)
March 12, 2021
The science is clear, said experts at a March 5th Atlantic Council webinar featuring opening remarks by Mary Grady, director of both Winrock’s American Carbon Registry (ACR) and the Secretariat for Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART). A rapidly warming world cannot reach the goals of the Paris Climate Accord — such as holding the rise […]
Plan Approved to Address Water Security in Key Cambodian Watershed
March 9, 2021
A committee of stakeholders representing the government, private sector and private citizens recently announced a groundbreaking strategic action plan (SAP) to guide efforts to improve water security for sustainable development of the Stung Chinit River Basin in central Cambodia. The Stung Chinit River Basin Management Committee (RBMC), with support from the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership […]
Women Leading the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Nepal
March 4, 2021
As part of the counter-trafficking efforts of the Hamro Samman project in Nepal, women are leading community engagement, awareness and advocacy efforts at the local level. Hamro Samman, supported by USAID and UK aid and implemented by Winrock International, aims to reduce human trafficking in Nepal. The project’s Leadership for Change (LfC) training equips at-risk […]
Guest Speaker Educates and Inspires Winrock Staff
March 1, 2021
On Thursday, February 25, Janis F. Kearney, author, lecturer and diarist of former President Bill Clinton, addressed Winrock staff as a featured speaker for Black History Month. Kearney, a native of Gould, Arkansas, grew up poor in a family of 19 children, the daughter of sharecroppers Thomas James (“T.J.”) and Ethel Kearney. From these humble […]
SWP Hosts Closeout Webinar for Pilot Activity in Mara River Basin
March 1, 2021
The Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) recently held a webinar to detail the achievements and lessons learned during the three-year Sustainable Water for the Mara (SWM) pilot activity in the transboundary Mara River Basin. Home to more than a million people and world-famous wildlife in Kenya and Tanzania, the basin faces multiple risks to water security […]
Celebrating the U.S. Return to the Paris Climate Agreement
February 25, 2021
On February 19, the United States officially became part of the Paris Agreement on climate change again, flowing from actions President Biden set in motion on his first day in office. President Trump announced he would remove the U.S. from the Agreement in 2017 and formally notified the United Nations of this decision in 2019. […]