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From risk to resilience: How Winrock’s Climate Resilience Accelerator helps communities adapt — and thrive

June 20, 2025

That’s why Winrock is launching the Climate Resilience Accelerator: a bold, practical framework for ensuring that development isn’t just about growth — it’s about endurance, equity and transformation. Winrock sees building climate resilience not as a burden, but as a competitive advantage for businesses, farmers and communities most impacted by climate change.  What is climate […]

Spotlight on child trafficking with Winrock International’s Olga DiPretoro 

May 12, 2025

Olga DiPretoro, technical adviser with Winrock International’s Human Rights, Education & Empowerment group, recently spoke at the 25th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons in Vienna, Austria. Hosted by the OSCE’s Office of the Special Representative and Coordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, this year’s event focused on the rapidly evolving threats […]

Winrock International’s top stories of 2024

January 7, 2025

Check out some of the most clicked and shared announcements, stories and blogs from Winrock International in 2024 — an exciting year that included new Winrock President and CEO Maqsoda Maqsodi beginning her tenure; ACR’s announcement of the first issuance of carbon credits from plugging orphaned oil and gas wells in the U.S.; Winrock’s human […]

Celebrating the legacy of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, friend of Winrock International

December 30, 2024

Winrock International maintained close and warm ties over many decades to former President Jimmy Carter. In addition to serving as the 39th president, Carter spent years working as a peanut farmer and businessman in a small town in Georgia. A former state governor and Nobel Prize winner, Carter would become a cherished friend and colleague […]

Resilience in the face of adversity: Ella’s journey home

December 28, 2024

Note: Names have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. For years, Migrasia, supported by the USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons project, has been a lifeline for countless Overseas Filipino Workers − a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, or people with Filipino citizenship who reside temporarily in another […]

Forging global partnerships: A conversation with Winrock’s Nodira Saidkarimova  

December 16, 2024

Nodira Saidkarimova, chief of party of the Safe Migration in Central Asia project, spent six weeks in Washington, D.C., as a part of the Rumsfeld Foundation and Central Asia-Caucasus Institute CAMCA Fellowship program. We asked her about her experiences raising awareness of USAID-funded counter-trafficking and safe migration work in Central Asia, expanding SMICA’s network of […]

A collaborative approach to combating child labor in Ghana 

December 4, 2024

Offinso municipal district, located in the Ashanti region of Ghana, is a gateway from the Northern and Bono East regions to Kumasi, the country’s second-largest city. Agriculture is the backbone of the municipality’s economy, with cocoa, palm oil and citrus as the primary cash crops. However, poverty in the area sometimes leads to child labor, […]

Platform for Peace and Humanity publishes interview with Winrock project leader

November 4, 2024

The Platform for Peace and Humanity, an international civic association specializing in humanitarian and international law, features an interview with Gulnaz Kelekeyeva, Winrock’s project leader for the Kazakhstan Actions Against Trafficking in Children project, in a recent issue of the Platform’s Peace & Security Monitor Central Asia. The report’s lead piece, authored by Lova Jansson, […]

New York Times story on cyber-scams and forced criminality in Asia cites research by USAID Thailand CTIP

October 28, 2024

An in-depth story in The New York Times about cyber-scamming and forced criminality in South Asia cites a report conducted by the USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons project and a social enterprise partner, Humanity Research Consultancy. The feature story in the Times, by reporter Tara Siegel Bernard, is headlined: “Swindled Savings: Lured by a […]

The Climate Q&A…with Winrock International climate leaders

October 9, 2024

This year marked the 15th annual convening of Climate Week NYC, an event held alongside the U.N. General Assembly in New York City that brings together leaders from across sectors to champion inclusive climate action. Three common and interconnected threads at this year’s event were: 1) The urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prepare […]
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