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Community-engagement activities help identify schooling gaps in South Sudan
June 29, 2015|post
At the start of the 2015 school year, the Room to Learn South Sudan (RtL) project began community activities for the first time in three states and four counties to empower community members improve school conditions and identify gaps that the project can help address. Using a participatory approach, RtL county teams work with community […]A hopeful atmosphere for a better future
June 19, 2015|volunteer
Today’s blog post comes from Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Ilan Bar, who just returned from his assignment in Senegal: “It was a pleasure and very satisfying assignment to train teachers and their students on drip irrigation at the Horticulture Initiation Center of Saint Louis, Senegal, a public education institution that provides training and know-how to youth, professionals […]Introducing our Senegal F2F Team
June 10, 2015|volunteer
Meet the F2F Team in Senegal The Senegal team is the newest member of Winrock’s Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) family! The team received its first volunteer as part of the USAID-funded F2F for Agriculture Education and Training (F2F for AET) Program in February, and since then, they have kept busy conducting baseline surveys, developing partnerships, designing volunteer assignments with local […]A Village Strongly Commits to Providing Availability of Rice to All
June 4, 2015|post
Thanks in part to a Winrock-implemented project in Cambodia, a rice bank is benefiting — and, indeed, helping to nourish — rural households in the Southeast Asian country at times when food is scarce. The Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children’s Rights (CCPCR), a local partner of the Counter Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) program, […]Dr. Do Tu Lan
June 4, 2015|post
This portrait is part of the Vietnam Clean Energy Program’s series on ‘women champions’ in the Vietnamese construction sector, featuring women who have made strides in this male-dominated field, coming from diverse backgrounds and with different interests, but bound together by the common themes of a strong work ethic, love of country, a strong belief […]May volunteer of the month
May 29, 2015|volunteer
Our May volunteer of the month is apiculture expert Ed Levi, who has volunteered with Winrock’s Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) program since 1995. Twenty years and 10 countries later, Ed continues to show his dedication to helping those in need around the world. Over the years, Ed has introduced improved beekeeping technologies and techniques to farmers in Bangladesh, […]Sharing Ideas and Best Practices to Eliminate Child Labor in Agriculture
May 20, 2015|post
On May 12-14, 2015, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the Pathways to Sustainability: Together We Can Eliminate Child Labour in Agriculture conference convened key stakeholders from Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, the United States and Switzerland for discussions on numerous topics related to child labor, and to reach consensus on the activities and policies necessary to eradicate […]Palm Oil Extraction Equipment Creates 2,000 Jobs in Rural Liberia
May 19, 2015|post
Stimulated by considerably higher palm oil prices, oil palm growers have increased production in recent years in West and Central Africa. However, this increase has not been fully reflected in increased palm oil production due to low extraction rates derived from traditional manual processing methods still used by the vast majority of smallholder producers in […]Winrock Supports Groundbreaking Policy Research on Mangrove and Wetland Conservation in Bangladesh
May 18, 2015|post
The Climate Resilient Ecosystems and Landscapes (CREL) project in Bangladesh has teamed with Winrock’s John D. Rockefeller 3RD (JDR 3RD) Scholars Program to commission two cutting-edge applied research projects with a direct mandate to inform national policies. The CREL/JDR 3RD Mangrove Valuation team will produce an estimate of the value of Sundarbans mangrove areas in […]The best English teacher
May 14, 2015|volunteer
Today’s blog post is written by Winrock staff Jennifer Robinson, a program associate/recruiter with the Volunteer Technical Assistance team, who traveled to Guinea last month and had the pleasure of participating in a class taught by one of our volunteers. “A recent labor market study for Agriculture Education and Training (AET) in Guinea showed that graduates’ […]