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Cambodian Government Greenlights Innovative Water Security Platform
April 16, 2019
Cambodia faces increasing threats to its water security due to climate variability, deforestation, and industrial and agricultural pollution. Other challenges include lack of access to drinking water and sanitation, as well as the operation and maintenance of irrigation for farming. In response, the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership has embarked on a four-year, cross-sectoral effort to […]
Winrock Assembles Advisory Committee of Resilience Experts
April 16, 2019
The U.S. Department of State Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) project, implemented by Winrock International and Climate Finance Advisors, has assembled the PIER Advisory Committee (PAC) to advise PIER in three thematic areas: country-level interventions, capacity building and private sector engagement, and thought leadership, communications, knowledge sharing and awareness. “The unique expertise of these […]
Winrock’s Liz Kendall Discusses Water Security in World Water Magazine
April 10, 2019
Water.org and Winrock’s Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) have launched a $4-million micro loan financing program to bring water and sanitation to Cambodian households. Winrock International’s Liz Kendall recently contributed a story to World Water Magazine about current water challenges in Cambodia and how affordable microloans can help to expand water access. SWP began the Cambodia Water Security Improvement […]
Using Big Data to Ensure Water Security
April 5, 2019
Since the 1990s, the innovation known as “big data” has been rapidly reshaping society. Broadly speaking, it refers to the use of computers to collect large amounts of information, analyze patterns and trends, and apply those lessons to improve performance. Its effects can be felt in the changing ways we shop, watch television and listen […]
Feeding a Thirsty World
March 26, 2019
“It goes without saying that there’s no food without water,” said Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson opening the Wilson Center event “Feeding a Thirsty World: Harnessing the Connections Between Food and Water Security” in Washington, D.C., on March 25. “Seventy percent of global water use goes to agriculture. … Water insecurity affects food security […]
Measuring Bugs and Avoiding Crocs
March 21, 2019
Everything about the man in green fatigues suggests he’s alert. His posture (erect), his lips (slightly parted), his forefinger (poised over the trigger of an AK-47 assault rifle). The man, a Serengeti National Park ranger, watches closely under the hot Tanzanian sun as ecologist Frank Masese sloshes around in brown river water with a net. […]
SWP Boosts Stalled Effort to Protect Mara Waterways
March 18, 2019
In 2013, the Kenyan government’s Water Resources Authority met with farmers, pastoralists and other people who use water along the Talek and Nyangores rivers, important tributaries to the Mara River Basin. A crucial source of water to both Kenya and Tanzania, the Mara River faces accelerating pressure from population growth, increased farming, soil degradation and […]
Arkansas Innovation Council Takes Flight at Inaugural Summit
March 14, 2019
On February 19, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and Winrock’s Innovate Arkansas took an important step to expand Arkansas’ knowledge-based economy with the launch of the Arkansas Innovation Council. This new initiative will tap into the combined insights and innovation of the state’s established industry leaders and its burgeoning startup community. Comprised of key leaders from […]
Gender in water and sanitation: empowerment by numbers
March 12, 2019
“We don’t have enough water … What should we do?” This simple question encapsulates the dilemma faced daily by many rural women in areas without water security. While men often react to seasonal water scarcity by migrating to find paid work, women stay at home to keep the household and farm running, the family clean […]
Reading, Writing — and Empowering
March 8, 2019
The women of Chimbalu, Chioza, Malawi, live and work side-by-side. A year and a half ago, they also began learning side-by-side. Since August 2017, they have attended literacy classes introduced by the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) program. Through the classes (which encourage a team spirit along with the literacy […]