January 2021 Innovations
In This Issue:
IN MALI, GIRLS THRIVE DESPITE THE CHALLENGES: Innovative program continues to educate youth amid pandemic and political instability
The Accelerated Learning Centers created by the Mali Girls Leadership and Empowerment through Education (GLEE) program have faced down disruptions — and still sent 77 percent of their learners (mostly girls) on to government-run schools. Sali Kassogue, above with her teacher and family, is one of them.
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JOINING FORCES TO COUNTER HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Winrock International recently hosted an online panel discussion to mark an ongoing three-year partnership between Mars Petcare and the USAID Asia and Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons programs to address the needs of vulnerable migrants in the Thai fishing sector.
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BUILDING A HOUSE — AND A FUTURE — IN MALAWI
The ARISE program’s Youth Producer Clubs teach students that farming can be a profitable business. Besta Fesitala used the money he earned growing watermelons to build a house for himself and his family.
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HOW WINROCK AND MICROSOFT WORKED TOGETHER IN VIETNAM
Private-sector engagement helped develop a database to monitor the innovative Payments for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system, which pays upstream forest owners to maintain healthy forests.
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U.S. AWARDS AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN LAO PDR
The grant to the Lao Cassava Association will provide technical training for its 8,000 members under the USDA’s Creating Linkages for Expanded Agricultural Networks (CLEAN) Project.
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