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Winrock International joins Accountability Framework initiative to advance ethical, deforestation-free supply chains
August 27, 2025
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. — Aug. 27, 2025 — Winrock International has joined the Accountability Framework initiative as a delivery partner, reinforcing the organization’s commitment to helping companies build supply chains that are environmentally sustainable and respectful of human rights. The AFi is a global coalition of more than 20 environmental and social nongovernmental organizations working […]
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Countering human trafficking: Winrock’s legacy of leadership and commitment
July 29, 2025
July 30th each year marks World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a global observance established by the United Nations in 2013 to raise awareness of human trafficking and promote and protect the rights of its survivors. This year’s theme: “Human Trafficking is Organized Crime – End the Exploitation,” underscores the urgent need to strengthen prevention […]
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, […]