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Roots and Wings
August 9, 2019
Above: Winrock raises up entrepreneurs everywhere from Nepal, where rice millers and farmers are coming together to boost incomes, to Arkansas, where a startup accelerator provides market research, prototype development and partnering assistance to new companies. This story originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of RockLinks, a newsletter about Rockefeller Family philanthropy. When the […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Kaniz Fatema
August 8, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself — where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?Hello, I am Ms. Kaniz Fatema, born in Rangpur, in the northern part of Bangladesh. I have completed a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) from Rangpur in the […]
USDA Launches $1 Million Effort to Prevent Opioid Abuse in Five Counties
August 7, 2019
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. – August 7, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing $998,834 to launch a proactive program to prevent opioid and substance abuse in north central and northeast Arkansas, a region that has high rates of opioid abuse and overdose deaths. The two-year Delta Understanding and Preventing Substance and Opioid Abuse […]
Winrock CEO Named to Export-Import Bank Advisory Committee
August 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 1, 2019 – Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson has been named to the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) 2019 Advisory Committee. He will be joined by senior leaders from Hewlett Packard, the AFL-CIO, and other luminaries from business, government, labor and finance. The Honorable Stevan Pearce, small business […]
Hamro Samman Activity Launches Two New Initiatives to Promote Greater Private Sector Engagement in Combating Human Trafficking in Nepal
July 30, 2019
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – July 30, 2019 – Today, at a program to mark World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) supported Hamro Samman Activity, which is implemented by Winrock International, launched two initiatives: the Hamro Samman Innovation Challenge and the Responsible […]
JDR3 Spotlight: Hafijul Islam Khan
July 25, 2019
Can you tell us a bit about yourself – where you come from and how you came to work in your current field?I am a lawyer and climate change negotiator. I have been working for 16 years. I am leading an organization called the Center for Climate Justice as an executive director. What are your […]
Empowering Women Leaders in Water Basin Management
July 23, 2019
As in many countries, women in Cambodia are the primary collectors, users and managers of water. In addition to overseeing household water use, women comprise a significant portion of the roughly two-thirds of Cambodians who work in smallholder farming, and who thus depend on water for their livelihoods. Yet at the same time, social norms […]
NowaraCo: A Grandmother’s Legacy Empowers Young Refugees
July 23, 2019
In 2019 the Arkansas Women’s Business Center at Winrock International piloted Momentum, a first-of-its-kind business accelerator targeting minority women in Arkansas. Momentum provided 10 minority woman-owned businesses with professional development training, mentorship and $500 in seed funding for business development. The five-week accelerator led to the launch and expansion of 10 new minority woman-owned businesses […]
Speaking Her Mind
July 23, 2019
When word filtered through To Dy’s village in 2009 that she planned to build a latrine in her aging house, her neighbors struggled to suppress their laughter. Like her, they had never used a latrine growing up. When people saved extra money, they used it to renovate or enlarge their homes. What was she thinking? […]
Mother, Farmer, Leader
July 23, 2019
For decades, Rom Sareun balanced a life split between work and family, farming rice with her husband and caring for her six children. When her husband unexpectedly died in 2002, she shouldered his responsibilities, harnessing their cow and tilling the fields behind a heavy plow. Her youngest son was only seven. The hard work of […]