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The Man with a Plan to End Child Labor
October 28, 2019
If you could design the person best suited for ridding the world of child labor, you’d probably come up with someone much like Dalitso Baloyi. The African regional director of the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) project, implemented in partnership with JTI, Baloyi has studied the subject and devoted much […]
Growing Businesses Through Peer Support
October 18, 2019
As busy leaders of dynamic organizations, CEOs often lament how hard it is to find the time and environment to process challenges only they can understand. “It is lonely at the top,” as they say. To meet this need, Innovate Arkansas (IA) has developed a unique series of forums that bring together Arkansas startup founders […]
Winrock and the World Food Prize
October 14, 2019
On October 16, World Food Day, the World Food Prize will be presented to Dutch plant breeder Simon Groot, who revolutionized the tropical seed business with his company East-West Seeds. Winrock has many connections to the prize and its current laureate. The year was 1985 and the ink was barely dry on Winrock’s merger document […]
Winrock CEO: Companies Can Act Responsibly and Innovate Too
October 7, 2019
The Business Roundtable’s recent call to expand the notion of corporate accountability beyond shareholder value has provoked reaction across the ideological spectrum. But as Winrock CEO Rodney Ferguson writes in Arkansas Business, this statement by top American business leaders only acknowledges growing consumer demand for corporations to take a longer-term approach. By broadening the definition […]
Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson Addresses Concordia Summit
September 25, 2019
September 24, 2019 — Speaking from the main stage of the 2019 Concordia Summit in New York City, Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson said that innovations such as the payment for forest environmental services program used in Winrock’s Vietnam Forests and Deltas project can help mitigate climate change and boost economic development around the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Monjurul Ahsan
September 19, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself – where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?Hi! I am Monjurul Ahsan. I’m currently with the Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS), a national NGO that has been working in the field of natural resource management since 1998. In 2001, […]
Statement by Winrock President & CEO Rodney Ferguson Regarding Global Climate Strike
September 19, 2019
Winrock International supports the global climate strikes planned in tens of thousands of schools around the world this month. As a nonprofit international development organization with 150 projects across the globe — many of them promoting resilient agriculture and safeguarding critical ecosystems — we know that climate change is a defining challenge of our age. […]
Building Consensus for Transboundary Water Management
September 18, 2019
When determining how to distribute a finite resource, securing cooperation between all who depend on the resource is crucial. But how do you do that, particularly when the limited resource in question – water – is the essential building block of life? The USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership is working to address this question in the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Naing Lin Oo
September 10, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself — where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?My name is Naing Lin Oo. I worked for the Department of Agricultural Planning under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation after graduating from Yezin Agricultural University in Myanmar in 1999. I […]
‘If you want to find a job, go to Bong Pheak.’
August 26, 2019
It took Chea Daneth, 22, only one week to find a receptionist job in Phnom Penh using Bong Pheak, an innovative internet-based employment service for low-skilled and unskilled factory, construction and hospitality workers. The service, created as part of USAID’s Cambodia Countering Trafficking-in-Persons program, implemented by Winrock, works by combining different technologies like the web, […]