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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 […]
Untapped Opportunities
September 18, 2019
Water security is a pervasive climate issue and one that has increasingly been viewed as a gendered issue. Worldwide, women and girls spend 200 million hours collecting water every day. While doing so, they place themselves at increased risk of assault and become more likely to develop medical issues related to physical labor. They also pay an opportunity cost, […]
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, […]
Clinicpass Breaks Through With Help From Innovate Arkansas
August 22, 2019
Tracy Cornwell Simpson had worked in medical device and pharmaceutical sales for years when she spotted an opportunity. She noticed that medical clinics and industry groups kept expressing concerns about a 2010 federal law aimed at increasing transparency around visits to clinics by pharmaceutical representatives. Thus was born Simpson’s company, a web-based service called Clinicpass […]
FreeArm Makes Leap From Concept To Market
August 22, 2019
Innovate Arkansas adviser Grejuana “G” Dennis recalls being captivated the first time she heard Misti and Will Staley pitch their product, the FreeArm. Similar in appearance to a clamp-on bedside lamp, FreeArm is an attachable device that enables hands-free tube feeding. The Staleys developed it after the death of their infant son, Freeman. Inspired by the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Mohammad Nur Nobi
August 22, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself — where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?I am serving as an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. From the early stage of my university life, I wanted to be an educator and […]
SWP: Water Security Requires Inclusiveness
August 20, 2019
While all people need water in order to live and work, many do not have a say in decision-making about water. As laid out in six toolkits by the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), improving water security in a sustainable way requires the involvement and ownership of all people who influence or are affected by water […]
Modeling the Mara
August 19, 2019
The Mara River runs from Kenya to Tanzania, providing water for 14,000 square kilometers of farmland, tea plantations, villages, forests, rangelands, and the richly biodiverse Serengeti and Maasai Mara national reserves. This critical river – and everyone who depends on it – is at risk, due to climate change and population growth. Agriculture and urbanization strain […]
Roots and Wings
August 9, 2019
Above: Winrock raises up entrepreneurs everywhere from Nepal, where rice millers and farmers are coming together to boost incomes, to Arkansas, where a startup accelerator provides market research, prototype development and partnering assistance to new companies. This story originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of RockLinks, a newsletter about Rockefeller Family philanthropy. When the […]