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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 […]
Putting New Skills to Use for Her Community
July 23, 2019
A bright afternoon sun blankets the village of Chanlahorng as visitors approach a cluster of wood-frame houses surroundinga dirt courtyard. Wearing a black T-shirt and a yellow patterned skirt, Sin Phally sets out a tea pot, drinking glasses and bottles of water for her guests. Then Phally, a rice farmer and mother of two, begins […]
Underground Escape: A Social Justice Escape Room
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 […]
Tren Al Sur: Coming to America – And Bringing Food
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 […]
U.S. Partners with Lao Farmers to Support and Expand Trade
July 23, 2019
VIENTIANE, LAOS – The United States is collaborating with Laos to improve the livelihoods of farmers and expand the trade of Lao agricultural products. On July 10, 2019 in Vientiane, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR and Winrock International signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand programs designed to strengthen local farmers and expand their markets through the Agriculture Creating Linkages for […]
USAID Recognizes ‘Exponential Private Sector Growth’ in Myanmar’s Coffee Sector
July 17, 2019
USAID/Burma Mission Director Teresa McGhie addressed a crowd of more than 100 specialty coffee industry actors at the July 2019 #CoffeeNext event in Yangon, organized by USAID’s Value Chains for Rural Development project (implemented by Winrock International) in collaboration with the Myanmar Coffee Association (MCA). McGhie cited the incredible, private sector-led advancement in the coffee […]
New Long-Term Emissions Reduction Project Starts in Mexico
July 17, 2019
Querétaro is a small state with one of the fastest growing GDPs in the country and, due to its close proximity to Mexico City and some of the main ports in the country, it acts as an industry and trade hub. Quintana Roo, on the Yucatán Peninsula, has a booming tourist industry as it is […]