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U.S. Department of Labor Awards $8M in Grants to Engage Cocoa Cooperatives to Combat Child Labor in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana
February 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – Under a hot sun, a child wields a machete at work in the fields, forced to inhale pesticides sprayed by adults eager to maintain their cocoa crop. Sadly, it is a reality for too many children, particularly those at work in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana’s cocoa industries. A recent report by NORC, an independent […]
Collaborating to Fight Human Trafficking
January 26, 2021
Many of the world’s most vexing challenges span national borders and jurisdictions and are best solved collaboratively. As a result, many leaders are concluding that partnerships between government, nonprofit, private-sector and other stakeholders are the key to lasting solutions. Winrock International recently hosted an online panel discussion to mark an ongoing three-year partnership between Mars […]
Winrock Experts Share Knowledge and Insights at Concordia 2020
September 25, 2020
Once again, experts from Winrock International were a significant presence at the Concordia Summit, an annual gathering held during U.N. General Assembly week that brings together decision-makers and opinion-leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Although the event was virtual this year, it continued to draw ambassadors, CEOs and other headliners, including USAID Acting […]
United States, Jamaica Engage in First Annual Child Protection Compact Partnership Bilateral Dialogue
June 30, 2020
June 16, 2020 – The United States and Jamaica continue to partner on efforts to combat child trafficking. Representatives of both governments convened an online discussion to mark progress and define next steps as part of the U.S. – Jamaica Child Protection Compact Partnership, a 4-year partnership signed by both governments on May 30, 2018. The […]
Screening Tool and National Referral Mechanism Help Jamaica Fight Child Trafficking
June 12, 2020
According to the U.S. Department of State’s (USDOS) 2019 Trafficking in Persons report, Jamaica has made significant progress in fighting human trafficking, including investigating and prosecuting more traffickers and publishing its first annual report on human trafficking in Jamaica. However, Jamaica remains a Tier 2 country within the USDOS ranking system (with 3 being the […]
Keeping Migrants Safe
May 21, 2020
“I decided to go to Malaysia because I was desperate,” says Chantrea Soun, a mother of four in the Kampong Cham province of Cambodia. Soun and her family were living with her aunt in a small village near a rubber plantation, just scraping by. Soun’s husband, Kiry (names have been changed), made a meager living […]
Boosting Women in Bangladesh
March 4, 2020
At Winrock, a cross-cutting theme throughout our projects is promoting the role of women through education and leadership development. This is a story of how leadership training transformed one woman and — and through her, the village and region she represents. It was originally published in May, 2018. Photos by Misty Keasler “I have helped […]
Winrock and Kasetsart
February 19, 2020
A Winrock Legacy Story Winrock International’s connection with Thailand’s Kasetsart University began before Winrock itself. Only 12 years after Kasetsart was established in 1943, one of Winrock’s founding organizations, the New York City-based Agricultural Development Council (then known as the Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), began helping Kasetsart University form an agricultural economics program. […]
Girl Power in Zambia
November 12, 2019
Like many girls in Mphunda Village, Zambia, 17-year-old Rabecca Mtonga dropped out of school at the age of 11. With no prospects for reentering school or getting vocational training, she married Bruno Nyirongo at age 15 and now has a young son. Despite dropping out of school, Mtonga still dreamed of running her own business […]
The Man with a Plan to End Child Labor
October 28, 2019
If you could design the person best suited for ridding the world of child labor, you’d probably come up with someone much like Dalitso Baloyi. The African regional director of the Achieving Reduction of Child Labor in Support of Education (ARISE) project, implemented in partnership with JTI, Baloyi has studied the subject and devoted much […]