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Winrock’s Multicultural Business Xcellerator to hold Demo Day, launch first cohort of founders

July 24, 2024

The Multicultural Business Xcellerator, led by Winrock International and funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, is designed to support scalable ventures led by multicultural founders. Through personalized mentoring, access to capital, and a robust network of investors and customers, MBX accelerates the growth of these promising startups. The project’s goal […]

Podcast series amplifies Winrock’s work advancing organic agriculture in the U.S.

July 24, 2024

Joseph Schafer, a Winrock International program manager overseeing a USDA-funded project that is collaborating with universities, regional and local partners to explore the agronomic and market potential of organic row crops in the Mid-South, is candid in his assessment of how things have gone, so far.  “The goal is to make organic farming economically viable […]

Strengthening small farm viability and food security in the U.S.

July 18, 2024

Over the past several years, there has been a tremendous growth of programs across the United States that aim to strengthen small farm viability and food security by connecting local farms to food assistance distribution partners such as food banks, food pantries and other grassroots efforts to end hunger. These Farm to Food Assistance (F2FA) […]

Forced online scamming: How the Cambodia CTIP project is addressing a troubling new trafficking trend in Asia

July 10, 2024

The USAID Cambodia Counter Trafficking in Persons project, implemented by Winrock International, is taking a leading role to address a new form of trafficking that has grown rapidly in Cambodia and across Southeast Asia in the past five years. While previous iterations of Cambodia CTIP focused on the trafficking of Cambodians into exploitative work, the […]

Women’s scholarship program revitalizes horticulture and transforms lives in Africa

June 24, 2024

If you ask the Senegalese women who seized an unusual training opportunity to become professional agriculture extension advisors why they sought to participate, their answers include striking similarities. Translated from French, their responses are salted with words like “resources,” “market,” “income,” “earning.” And one particular reason appears repeatedly: “To help.” “This training will allow me […]
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“By supporting parents, we also help children.” 

June 14, 2024

The Taldykorgan Regional Women’s Support Center, established in 1997, offers legal, social, and psychological assistance to women and children. Since its establishment, almost 10,000 women and children have received various kinds of support.  Since 2023, the center has been partnering with Winrock International on the Kazakhstan Actions Against Trafficking in Children project funded by the […]

James Yekeh’s three takeaways from Winrock’s 10+ years of building successful long-term partnerships to combat child labor in Liberia

June 10, 2024

Winrock International has implemented over 14 child labor prevention projects in more than 34 countries since 2002, impacting and reaching over 134,000 households, and effectively removing and preventing almost 75,000 children from exploitive and hazardous child labor. Winrock’s integrated development approaches address livelihoods, food security, education, community engagement, and leadership and capacity development. On World […]

United against child labor: How local child protection committees and cocoa co-ops are collaborating to combat child labor in Ghana’s Ashanti Region

June 7, 2024

Adansi South District is one of the 43 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.  It’s a hilly district with a semi-equatorial climate. The capital, New Edubiase, lies upon the Kumasi-Cape Coast Highway, and agriculture dominates the local economy. Cocoa is the main crop, with rice, oil palm, cassava, plantain, coconut […]

Three ways SCALE-NRM supports locally-led protection of forests and livelihoods in the Solomon Islands 

June 3, 2024

The USAID Strengthening Competitiveness, Agriculture, Livelihoods and Environment – Natural Resources Management (SCALE-NRM) project, implemented by Winrock International and partners, is a five-year, $16.5 million investment in economic growth and trade in the Solomon Islands, with emphasis on development of the agribusiness sector and improved forestry management. In support of the Solomon Islands’ National Development […]
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The Climate Q&A.. with Arif Budiman, forest carbon and peatland restoration expert

May 30, 2024

Based in West Java, Arif Budiman is a technical advisor with more than 20 years of experience in nature conservation, sustainable development planning and forest carbon emission mitigation. In addition to his work with Winrock International, Budiman has managed environmental projects in Indonesia for the Worldwide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the U.N. Development Programme. […]
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