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Clean and Efficient Cooking Technologies and Fuels
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Winrock developed technical content for the USAID Energy Toolbox Cookstove Toolkit. The toolkit can be used by various stakeholders, but is primarily aimed at bringing USG staff and external project developers and implementers up-to-speed on significant developments in the cookstove sector in recent years. The goal is to showcase, through accurate and up-to-date information and […]
Lessons learned in cookstove financing and distribution through formal financial institution channels
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In 2012 Winrock’s USAID-funded Developing a Sustainable Cookstove Sector project released a call for applications from organizations to develop innovative partnerships to address two major challenges that had been identified in a 2011 market assessment conducted by Winrock for USAID in Kenya – last mile distribution and financing for enterprises and consumers. As a result […]
Advanced Biomass Cookstove Distribution
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The cookstove sector has evolved significantly in the past few years, with a strong commitment to higher quality technologies (including efforts to develop international voluntary standards) and market-based approaches. The sector has benefited from macro-level trends that facilitate distribution. Our research identified several trends that have improved cookstove distribution. This report elaborates on the interplay […]
Honoring Winrock Volunteers on National Teach Ag Day
September 21, 2017|volunteer
September 21, 2017 is National Teach Ag Day; a day to celebrate the impact agriculture educators make in their schools and communities. Agriculture teachers are key to developing essential life skills in students so that they will be successful problem solvers, leaders, entrepreneurs, and agriculturalists. On this special day, Winrock International honors our outstanding volunteers […]
Getting Pumped
September 20, 2017|post
By Evgenia Sokolova, finance consultant to Winrock’s Clean Energy Innovations team “I fell in love with that water pump the first time I saw it,” said Joshua Okundi, a passion-fruit farmer from Kendu Bay. Okundi (pictured above, center, with blue cap) is one of the 9,000 farmers who saw the solar pump at one of […]
Back to School
September 19, 2017|post
In many parts of the world, September means back to school. Here’s what children are learning, courtesy of Winrock projects: The Green Valley Academy in Ilam, Nepal, is part of a recycling revolution. Before, the school burned its waste paper and plastics on campus, prompting complaints from neighbors. But now it provides recycling bins and […]
New Lab Keeps on Giving
September 15, 2017|post
The USAID-funded new building energy simulation lab opened at Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction on September 12, 2017 in Hanoi. The lab is part of the USAID Vietnam Clean Energy Program’s sustainability plan to ensure that key program components and activities continue to benefit the Ministry of Construction with the necessary software and tools. The lab […]
September Volunteers of the Month
September 15, 2017|volunteer
Winrock’s September Volunteers of the Month are dynamic duo, Dr. Jonathan Deenik and Dr. Glen Fukumoto. They both come from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and volunteered together this summer in Myanmar, providing training to 77 farmers in Hmawbi Township on soil quality improvement techniques, including soil fertility management and composting using poultry and […]
This is Winrock
September 14, 2017|post
Winrock is proud to present “This is Winrock,” a short, engaging portrait of Winrock International. In this video, you’ll catch a stunning glimpse of our projects around the world, from the coffee slopes of Burma to the schoolyards of Liberia to the farms of the American South. Our approach to development emphasizes markets, human-centered design, […]
Ghana Receives Landmark Approval From Carbon Fund
September 14, 2017|post
September 11, 2017 – Winrock International contributed significantly to the development of Ghana’s Emission Reduction Program which has become part of the portfolio of the Carbon Fund of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, making it eligible to receive performance-based payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Ghana is the second country […]