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Empowering Micro Hydro Plants in Nepal
January 3, 2019
“For a person who had never touched a computer throughout his life, trainings from Winrock opened unprecedented opportunities of learning. Soon after the trainings, I completed data entry for all customers and started a computer billing system with transparent accounting,” says Mohan Shrees, manager of the Chachalghat Micro Hydro Plant (MHP) in the Baglung District […]
Safeguarding Water in the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’
January 3, 2019
In 2018, the Sustainable Water Partnership launched a three-year activity in the Mara basin to improve on-the-ground water security, develop a basin-wide plan for allocating water and provide the tools and science to improve decision-making around water. In support of these goals, the Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project is conducting a rigorous basin-wide climate […]
Access to Water is Not Equal: This Framework Can Help
December 18, 2018
When it comes to addressing inequality, water management needs improvement. Analysis often lacks the tools and granular data to detect the disparities that underlie inequality. For example, a model might show that water supply is plentiful at the basin level—without revealing that remote, small farms within that basin struggle with scarcity. The result is a water […]
How Women Are Driving Change in Kathmandu
December 17, 2018
A Winrock Legacy Story Maya Ghalan is piloting her electric vehicle along the bumpy roads of Kathmandu, Nepal. In the last 15 years, she has logged thousands of miles in the scrappy three-wheeled electric minibus the Nepalis call a safa tempo. It’s part of an improbable fleet of more than 700 electric vehicles that have […]
Securing a Sustainable Future
December 10, 2018
As we round off our second year of implementing the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), we’re celebrating! Thanks to funding from USAID and support from our consortium of partners, we’ve accomplished so much over the last twelve months. In the last fiscal year, we have: Completed a series of six methodological toolkits to guide water security programming. Begun or […]
Putting the Tea in ‘VC-RD’
December 3, 2018
By Tim May The USAID-funded Value Chains in Rural Development (VC-RD) project in Myanmar has produced a stellar coffee success story, with more than 350 tons of specialty coffee exported to buyers around the world after the project’s first full coffee harvest season, offering Burmese smallholder coffee farmers more than three times the amount per […]
Water@Wilson: SWP’s John Parker on Transboundary Water Cooperation
November 29, 2018
Water is essential to human life. But as growing risks such as climate change and demographic shifts alter the realities of water resource management and WASH service provision, new challenges and opportunities arise. On November 28, experts gathered at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., to discuss the challenges of water insecurity that stand in […]
Lake Village, Arkansas: Small Town, Big Dreams
November 6, 2018
Lake Village, Arkansas, was recently named one of 12 finalists for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize. It beat out almost 200 other communities in this annual competition that awards $25,000 to the town that best transforms its neighborhoods, schools and businesses so that quality of life and quality of place flourish for […]
Translating Data into Action
October 25, 2018
When Clara Bocchino began her undergraduate degree in Milan, studying foreign languages and literature, she thought she would go on to be an interpreter. But one class, a study in human geography, introduced her to community-based natural resource management – and changed her life. “Transboundary conservation really captured my attention – the complexity of the […]
Water @ Wilson: 50 Years of Water, Conflict and Cooperation
October 24, 2018
Water is critical. It grows our food, generates our energy, and ensures our prosperity. To address the challenges that stand in the way of building healthy, prosperous, and peaceful communities, we must first tackle the challenge of water insecurity. As the Wilson Center celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Environmental Change and Security Program marks water’s […]