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Clubs That Help Kids Stay in School
August 15, 2018
Leonard Thedison, age 15, was listening closely. As a member of the anti-child labor club at Chiponde Primary School in the Mchemani Education Zone of Lilongwe Rural East, Malawi, he had already taken to heart the importance of education, how it could create a new life for himself and his family. But today’s topic was […]
Seeing the Forests for the Water
August 14, 2018
The world is experiencing both unprecedented forest loss and increasingly severe floods and drought events. These issues are often approached independently, despite the critical influence forest and water have on each other and in providing ecosystem services. This seminar will discuss innovative research demonstrating these interrelationships and how these findings can be used for policy […]
Local Investment, Lasting Impact
August 14, 2018
In Cambodia’s Stung Chinit watershed, 40 leaders from civil society and the private sector have pledged to actively participate in the Sustainable Water Partnership’s Water Security Improvement (WSI) process. As part of the WSI process’s initial assessment phase, SWP identified local water user groups and organizations in the Stung Chinit watershed. The project engaged representatives from local farmer […]
Celebrating the Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods Project
August 8, 2018
The Climate-Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) project diversified incomes derived from sustainable natural resource management for 360,000 people and helped 875 villages plan actions to sustain or enhance their natural resource base in the face of pending impacts from climate change. CREL also greatly advanced the effectiveness of co-management in protecting nearly 764,000 hectares of […]
SWP at World Water Week
July 27, 2018
The USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) will participate in a sofa session at World Water Week (August 26-31) in Stockholm, Sweden. This global annual conference, organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), acts as a focal point for water experts, decision-makers, businesses and thought leaders concerned with water issues. This year’s theme is “Water, Ecosystems and […]
In Nepal, Macro Lessons for Micro-Hydro
July 13, 2018
Winrock International has a long history of work in Nepal’s micro-hydro industry, and that legacy was much in evidence in a series of learning and sharing workshops put on by Sharing Learning Across Projects: Operating Micro Hydro (MHPs) as Commercially Viable Enterprises, a clean energy project in Nepal. The project is financially supported by WISIONS […]
Adding Science to Shrimp Farming
June 25, 2018
Shrimp and prawn farming have great potential in Bangladesh, but over the last few years many farmers have suffered financial losses because of frequent disease outbreaks and limited availability of good quality seed shrimp. Winrock’s USDA-funded Safe Aqua Farming for Economic and Trade Improvement (SAFETI) aims to increase shrimp and prawn production and productivity, raise […]
“Hope is Not a Strategy”
June 20, 2018
“Water variability has always existed,” said USAID Climate Change Adaptation Specialist Jonathan Cook, opening the fourth and final “Sustainable Water, Resilient Communities” event. For centuries, places and people around the world have depended primarily on erratic water supplies; in Cambodia, for example, people have adapted over time to the fluctuation brought on by the annual monsoon. […]
A Training Program That Makes Dreams a Reality
June 15, 2018
This is the sixth and final story in our series of World Day Against Child Labor articles. Thy La is 17 years old with only a fifth-grade education. He dropped out of school as a child because he faced learning difficulties. Without an education, his options were limited, so he became a monk, a common […]
From Farm to School
June 14, 2018
This is the fifth story in our series of World Day Against Child Labor articles. It was originally published in March 2017. Like many young people in the Lilongwe district of Malawi, 15-year-old Mkasauka Laitani is the child of smallholder farmers. And like many, her education suffered in the wake of economic difficulty. School is […]