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Winrock’s AWBC Wins Grant from U.S. Small Business Administration to Support Women-Owned Businesses Impacted by COVID
August 23, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. ── August 23, 2021 ── The Arkansas Women’s Business Center (AWBC) has been awarded a Resilience and Recovery Demonstration Grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA’s) Office of Women’s Business Ownership program. The AWBC is one of 14 women’s business centers in 13 states to receive the SBA awards, which aim […]
ART Expands TREES Standard to Mobilize Large-scale Climate Solutions from Forests
August 19, 2021
ARLINGTON, VA — August 19, 2021 — The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) has released an expanded version of The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES), its high-integrity standard for measuring, monitoring, verifying, and crediting climate progress in the forest sector. The updated version – TREES 2.0 – broadens opportunities to unlock large-scale solutions from forests in […]
Making Serious Water Security Issues More Fun: Developing an ECO Game for Cambodia’s Stung Chinit Basin
August 18, 2021
Imagine you are a rural farmer, trying to make ends meet while also facing the threats of climate change, water pollution, and ever-increasing water scarcity. You must make decisions, both short and long-term, that affect the health of your family, your community, and your environment. Although something may appear to be a good choice now, […]
Winrock President & CEO Rodney Ferguson Appointed Concordia Senior Advisor
August 18, 2021
Washington, D.C. – August 18, 2021 – Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson has been named Senior Advisor to Concordia for the 2021-2022 term. Concordia’s Advisors and Senior Advisors are carefully selected by Concordia’s executive leadership, Leadership Council, Board of Directors, and staff, and serve for a one-year term. Concordia’s Senior Advisors are a small, […]
Climate Action Can’t Wait: IPCC Releases Sixth Report
August 11, 2021
The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 Report highlights the dire need for global climate action at an unprecedented scale to dramatically reduce GHG emissions over the coming decades to avoid irreversible, catastrophic climate impacts. Winrock is proud to be a part of the solution through our work in carbon capture, […]
USAID Partners Launch Online Campaign Marking World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
July 29, 2021
Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, July 29, 2021 – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Migration in Central Asia program, implemented by Winrock International, and its partners from Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan have launched a digital campaign to raise public awareness about human trafficking and measures to identify and avoid being trafficked. The campaign will […]
Survivors Become Champions and Leaders of New Counter-Trafficking Movement
July 28, 2021
With support from Winrock and an expanding range of engaged governments and private partners, trafficking survivors globally are creating and leading a new generation of community-based networks, connecting, and drawing strength from their own bitter experiences to help protect vulnerable people in their communities and counter the malign influence of human traffickers. Survivors are becoming […]
“Labor of Loss:” Winrock’s USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons Project Launches New Podcast Series
July 27, 2021
Experience Stories of Human Exploitation – and Hope – from Trafficking Survivors, First Responders and Rights Advocates across Asia Labor of Loss, a podcast series by Winrock’s USAID Asia Counter Trafficking in Persons project and Freedom Collaborative, explores experiences of human trafficking and labor exploitation across Asia, taking listeners on a journey from a fishing […]
Upgraded Website Will Help Kyrgyz Migrants Stay Safe
July 27, 2021
July 13, 2021 – The Information-Consultation Center of the Department of External Migration under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic (ICC) launched their newly re-designed website www.migrant.kg(link is external). The website was upgraded to include new features with support from USAID’s Safe Migration project. Representatives of the media, government bodies, and civil society […]
SWP Water Resources Profile Series Launch
July 20, 2021
Water resources around the world are increasingly stressed. Over-abstraction of surface and groundwater is impacting economic activity, harming biodiversity, and leaving communities without access to reliable and adequate water supplies to meet their basic needs. Meanwhile, agricultural runoff, industrial effluent, and municipal waste degrade water resources with pathogenic and chemical contaminants that pose environmental and […]