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The People of PIER: Michael Cote
April 16, 2020
First of a series What is your role within the PIER project? My role is project director of the Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience (PIER) project. I have technical and financial oversight over the entire project: hiring and subcontracting (all sign-offs go through me), and I provide technical leadership and staff development, subcontractor management, partnership […]
CLEAN’s Good Agricultural Practices Pilot Launch in Vientiane
April 13, 2020
Alex Dahan, Chief of Party of the USDA-funded CLEAN project, implemented by Winrock International in partnership with the Laos Department of Agriculture, at the Good Agricultural Practices Market Pilot launch in February 2020 at the International Trade Exhibition and Convention Centre in Vientiane, Laos. “Everything today is about GAP,” (Good Agricultural Practices), Dahan told a […]
Call to Action on Food System Disruption
April 13, 2020
This document was created during the Wallace Center’s National Good Food Network (NGFN) Conference, held March 10-13 in New Orleans. Approximately 50 attendees gathered during an emergency COVID-19 work session to assess how the pandemic would affect the U.S. food system, followed by a group brainstorming session on solutions to mitigate the emerging crisis. Additional […]
Playing for Keeps in Bangladesh
April 10, 2020
A Winrock Legacy Story Before they made toys, the women of South Chila, Mongla, Bagerhat in Bangladesh made their living from the forest and wetlands. They collected wood and caught fish. This put pressure on the environment, and it wasn’t easy on the women, who faced muggings, prosecutions for illegally fishing and collecting timber — […]
Innovate Arkansas Hosts U.S. Rep. French Hill
April 2, 2020
Innovate Arkansas recently launched a new webcast to assist startups and founders with actionable information to help them navigate the coronavirus-induced economic crisis. In this webcast, Innovate Arkansas Director David Sanders speaks with U.S. Representative French Hill about how the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act can help sustain small and […]
ACR Selected for International Aviation’s New Carbon-Offset Plan
March 31, 2020
ARLINGTON, VA — The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has approved the American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, to supply eligible ACR-issued emission reduction units for compliance under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). ACR is one of only six agencies ICAO approved and is […]
A CLEAN Getaway
March 30, 2020
In the weeks leading up to my trip last month to work onsite with the USDA-funded Creating Linkages for Expanded Agricultural Network (CLEAN) in Laos, the pandemic that has now interrupted daily life in many parts of the world had not yet reached its current proportions. It was my first scheduled trip to support a […]
Winrock Responds to COVID-19
March 30, 2020
With projects around the world, Winrock International has been dealing with COVID-19 since January, when the novel coronavirus shut down daily life in China, one of the 46 countries in which Winrock works. As the virus continues to spread across the globe, the organization has ramped up its response: increasing communication, adjusting to altered workflow […]
‘Forests are Gold’
March 20, 2020
Vietnam’s Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) system, implemented by Winrock’s USAID Vietnam Forests and Deltas project, provides around $130 million a year to over 500,000 households for their work protecting the forest. It’s money that flows from hydroelectric plant owners and other downstream users of environmental services into the hands of people like K […]
SWP Leader Discusses Water Data on Podcast
March 20, 2020
Dr. Rodolfo Camacho, the project director/chief of party for the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP), spoke recently on the Wilson Center’s Water Stories podcast about using data to enhance water security. Implemented by Winrock International, SWP provides technical services and program implementation to advance USAID global water security thought leadership and innovation. The discussion covered several subjects, […]