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Multiple–use water services meet local needs for clients and create jobs for local private enterprises
March 14, 2013
Multiple use water services (MUS) is an approach for planning and designing water services that addresses not just one aspect of people’s water needs – such as drinking or growing crops – but the range of people’s domestic and productive water needs. Winrock International is implementing the MUS component of the USAID WA-WASH program and […]
Great Lakes Protection Fund Supports Innovative Partnership to Reduce Agricultural Pollutants in Milwaukee River Watershed
March 5, 2013
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (August 5, 2013) – Grant funding from the Great Lakes Protection Fund (GLPF) will support a multi-disciplinary partnership to reduce harmful runoff from agricultural lands in the Milwaukee River Watershed. A team led by nonprofits Winrock International, Delta Institute and Sand County Foundation will direct the effort. The three-year, $957,000 grant seeks […]
AMORE Helps Mindanao Women Rebuild Their War-Torn Villages
February 11, 2013
That was 11 years ago, when more than 100,000 people (mostly women and children) had fled their homes because of air raids and fierce gun battles in an all-out war in Mindanao, in the Philippines. Today, Bai Aniza and her neighbors are sowing the seeds of peace in their own village. Winrock’s help — through […]
A Kabori Story
December 7, 2010
Ali Maman is a farmer and gardener. He lives with his three wives, Hadiza, Habiba and Nanuwa, five children, and six grandchildren in the village of Kabori, Zinder Region, in Niger. Alli’s Story “Me, before the project came, you can see the work that I used to do. It’s just some sugarcane and some squash […]