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Irena Todortcheva
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Senior Director of Information Communication & Technology Irena Todortcheva provides strategic leadership for Winrock’s technology infrastructure, ensuring seamless alignment with organizational objectives. She provides ongoing leadership and guidance to the service delivery, infrastructure and cyber security, project management, and development and collaboration teams. Working closely with Winrock’s chief operating officer, Todortcheva defines and approves organizational […]
Winrock joins new Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership Announced at COP28
December 20, 2023|post
This news release was originally issued Dec. 8, 2023 on jtapartnership.org. DUBAI — The formation of a new Jurisdictional REDD+ Technical Assistance Partnership, JTAP, was announced today at COP28. The initial group of partner organizations, Conservation International, Climate Law and Policy, Environmental Defense Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Winrock International’s Ecosystem Services Unit, are actively seeking […]
Understanding Survivor-Owned Groups: A Systematic Literature Review and Narrative Synthesis
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There is a burgeoning interest in survivor-centered programming in the field of counter human trafficking. However, according to our understanding, survivor-centered programming requires meaningful survivor engagement, and survivor engagement can only truly be meaningful if survivors are sufficiently empowered. However, limited guidance is available around the building of survivor empowerment. Evidence shows that, in general, […]
Winrock joins consortium to help mobilize finance to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
December 8, 2023|post
Winrock has joined a consortium led by Ricardo that will deliver the UK Technical Assistance Programme for LEAF, aimed at helping governments mobilize finance for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: a major global driver of climate change. Ricardo, a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company, is leading the consortium, which will deliver […]
Op-ed: Return climate politics to the art of the possible
December 7, 2023|post
On November 30, 2023 – ahead of COP28 in Dubai, Mary Grady (ACR Executive Director) published the following op-ed in Marketwatch. Politics has been called the art of the possible. Yet, when it comes to climate change, this adage is flipped on its head – the art of the impossible. As the world prepares for the […]
Winrock’s Senior Technical Director for Climate featured in Inside Climate News
December 4, 2023|post
Winrock International’s Senior Technical Director for Climate Molly Hellmuth is featured in an article published in Inside Climate News about the recent release of the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment. Hellmuth served as the lead author of the international chapter of the NCA5, a Congressionally mandated assessment that is published once every four years. The […]
Innovative carbon finance strategy pays for active forest conservation
December 1, 2023|post
This story was originally published on acrcarbon.org A new methodology released today by ACR at Winrock International offers an innovative avenue to conserve and enhance forestlands in the United States. Every year, the U.S. loses nearly three million acres (1.2 million hectares) of forest to other land uses, negatively affecting wildlife and water quality and […]
Evidence 2 Action: 2023 Speakers
November 27, 2023|post
Mika Mekhribon Abdullaeva, U.S. Department of State Mika is an established international education and development professional with 20 years of experience. She holds a PhD in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration and has been managing portfolio of global projects at the Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) Program to […]
The total eclipse is coming. Winrock’s Innovation Hub is ready. Are you?
November 27, 2023|post
The following story was originally published on thepathoftotality.org, an initiative of the Simons Foundation. For over 20 years, Errin Stanger, director of the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, has been driven by her love of community organizing and serving others. So when she learned that her town of North Little Rock, Arkansas, was in the path […]
10 reasons the world needs carbon markets
November 27, 2023|post
This story was originally published on ACRcarbon.org. The world is not on track to meet Paris Agreement goals and current policies put us on the path for 2.7°C of warming, well beyond what climate scientists say is safe for humanity. Even if every country met its current commitments, the world would still be 24 gigatons of emissions short of […]