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December 2020 Innovations

Environment & Energy
Agriculture
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December 2020 Innovations
Bangladesh
Burma
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MAKING FOREST CONSERVATION PAY
How a unique plan in Vietnam protects trees and reduces poverty

Meet Koren Gren, who leads a forest patrol group through the Green Hills of Cambodia. Gren and his team wear camouflage uniforms and look for signs of illegal logging. In three years, Gren has earned enough from this forest protection work to build his family a house. The USAID Forests and Deltas Program, implemented by Winrock International, is helping make these Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) payments possible.
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MAKING THE WORLD SMALLER … ONE VOLUNTEER AT A TIME
Winrock, a proud Farmer-to-Farmer implementer for nearly 30 years, played a central role in coordinating USAID’s 35th-anniversary celebration of this volunteer-driven agriculture technical assistance program.
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FUND TO CLOSE FINANCE ACCESS GAP IN ARKANSAS
Winrock introduces Arkansas’ first evergreen, not-for-profit fund dedicated to deploying early-stage awards to validation-stage companies. It will aid in the creation of jobs and economic prosperity across the state.
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ART APPROVED TO SUPPLY CREDITS FOR GLOBAL AVIATION’S CARBON MARKET
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) approved the national and subnational approaches to reducing forest loss used by Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), for which Winrock serves as Secretariat, as a means to achieve carbon-neutral growth after 2020
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BOOK FEATURES WINROCK’S WORK IN BANGLADESH
The Climate Resilient Ecosystems and Livelihoods (CREL) project, which Winrock implemented in Bangladesh from 2012 to 2018, is featured in a new book, What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World.
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Winrock in the News

  • Marketlinks: Facilitating finance in Myanmar’s agriculture sector study from VC-RD
  • Thomson-Reuters: Winrock supports trafficking survivors in Bangladesh
  • Ark. Money & Politics: CEO Ferguson on boosting Arkansas entrepreneurs
  • Daily Observer: Winrock study assesses risk to children in dried fish sector

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