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Volunteer with Winrock
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Volunteer assignments will contribute towards addressing critical needs – such as reducing poverty, providing essential services and technologies to smallholders, and educating young women and men for meaningful and productive work. Overseas assignments last from two to six weeks. Volunteers must meet basic qualifications for the assignment. If you have any questions or concerns, contact […]
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Why Work at Winrock? Winrock addresses some of the most important and critical issues facing the world today: agriculture and sustainability; clean energy; climate change; economic opportunity; forests and natural resource management; gender and social inclusion; water; and youth and education. Whether the topic revolves around one of these issues, or other challenges facing the […]
Milwaukee River Pay-for-Performance Project
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Farms are businesses, which means they respond to economic signals. That basic idea is behind this program’s approach to reduce the damage to water quality caused by agricultural run-off in the West Branch Milwaukee River watershed. Winrock works with water treatment plant owners, conservation groups and others in the area to devise pay-for-performance incentives that…
The Power of the Sun
February 11, 2016|post
Joshua Okundi works hard to earn a living — growing crops such as corn, passion fruit, bananas and mangoes. He also has two fish ponds, where he raises tilapia. Like many smallholder farmers in Kenya, Okundi was spending a significant sum for fuel to run his diesel irrigation pumps, eating into his modest profits. Now, thanks […]
Winrock Forward
February 11, 2016|post
Motivated by his own past, CEO Rodney Ferguson has positioned Winrock International to offer solutions to the world’s most challenging problems Interview by Chris Warren Long before Rodney Ferguson became President and CEO of Winrock International, he was keenly aware of how development work can transform lives. As a young boy growing up in small-town […]
Bangladesh Counter Trafficking-in-Persons Project (BC/TIP)
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BC/TIP’s main objective was to reduce human trafficking and child marriage in Bangladesh in order to achieve improved protection of civil and human rights in six interrelated areas: To achieve this, BC/TIP connected local and national government representatives, non-governmental organizations, the business community, community leaders, and citizens. The project prioritized the sustainability of CTIP efforts […]
Developing Forestry and Land Use Policy in Context of Climate Change
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Reform of forestry and land use policy offers the opportunity to build resilience against climate change and associated environmental shocks, support climate change mitigation, and improve local level forest and land management. To formulate policy that can be successfully implemented in meeting the needs of multiple stakeholders, governments must adopt procedures that facilitate awareness raising […]
Preserving Guyana’s Remarkable Forests
December 31, 2015|post
Synopsis: Help Guyana Forestry Commission develop a national Forest Carbon Monitoring System Among the last things you can expect to see along the road headed south from the Guyanese city of Linden is a living, breathing human being. In large part, that is because the deeply rutted dirt road to Brazil cuts through thick forest […]
Opening the Tap in Tanzania
December 31, 2015|post
Synopsis: Tackle root causes of poverty in rural areas by linking demand-driven Multiple-Use Water Services (MUS) with impact-boosting health and livelihoods programs Sarai Jacobi’s days used to be utterly predictable. Each morning at 7, she would leave her home in Nyakonge, Tanzania and walk four kilometers with her donkey to collect water for her family […]
Staying Cool In Pakistan
December 31, 2015|post
Synopsis: Cold chain development program linking horticultural and fishery production Safina Bibi is comfortable being a trailblazer. In 1984, Bibi became the first — and remains the only — woman owner of a cold storage facility in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. This is no small achievement in male-dominated Pakistan. But just as important is the fact […]