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Policy Brief: Developing Climate-Resilient Infrastructure in Peru
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Extreme weather events in Peru interrupt public services and damage commercial and residential infrastructure, which in turn increase operating and maintenance costs, reduce revenues, and can decrease the service-life of infrastructure assets. Private infrastructure developers, banks, insurance companies, government agencies, and other infrastructure stakeholders have begun to consider climate impacts because they pose substantial operational, […]
Building Inclusive Economic and Community Development Ecosystems in the Rural South
July 8, 2022|post
With the pandemic beginning to enshroud everything and everyplace, including her hometown of England, Ark., Vickie Woodard, retired music teacher, DIYer and aspiring entrepreneur, wondered how she would make it. “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” she says. “It wasn’t just COVID. It was George Floyd too.” Woodard is a Black woman in her fifties […]
Hành động cùng nhau: Hiểu và Thúc đẩy Tác động Tập thể – Chìa khóa cho Dự án Giảm thiểu Ô nhiễm do USAID tài trợ tại Việt Nam
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Đăng tải ngày 30 tháng 6 năm 2022 – Tác giả: Phan Thị Nhung, Cán bộ Chương trình Tác động tập thể, Dự án Giảm thiểu Ô nhiễm do USAID tài trợ tại Việt Nam. Trước khi quyết tâm theo đuổi tấm bằng Thạc sỹ Biến đổi khí hậu của Đại học Quốc Gia Hà […]
USAID-Supported Forest Development Fund Grant Scheme progresses into final phase
July 5, 2022|post
The following release was originally issued by the USAID SCALE-NRM project in the Solomon Islands. AUKI, SOLOMON ISLANDS – The Strengthening Competitiveness, Agriculture, Livelihoods and Environment – Natural Resource Management (SCALE-NRM) project team based in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, successfully completed four Pre-Application Conferences (PACs) at the four regions of Malaita. The PACs were conducted […]
Acting together: Understanding and fostering collective impact are key to the USAID Reducing Pollution project in Vietnam
June 30, 2022|post
In 2020, when I received my master’s degree in climate change from Vietnam National University in Hanoi, I had already been working in the environmental sector on and off for over 10 years. My experiences in health, tourism and education during those years were valuable for many reasons, including that they crystallized for me that […]
The Climate Q&A…
June 21, 2022|post
You are Winrock’s first senior advisor for climate change. What’s included in your remit? Winrock has a long history of thought leadership and program implementation that empowers local communities, governments, civil society, and the private sector to mitigate and adapt to climate change. So, the good news is that although I am technically “the first” senior […]
Announcing the Inaugural Friends of Winrock
June 20, 2022|post
June 20, 2022 – Winrock International today announced the inception of a new, collaborative initiative called Friends of Winrock to amplify the scope and impact of the organization as its work expands and confronts increasingly complex new challenges. “This new network doubles down on one of our most highly-valued assets: our diverse array of multi-talented, […]
Building Safe Food Systems, Protecting Public Health and Improving Agricultural Trade Prospects in the Philippines
June 7, 2022|post
Dagupan City sits on the Lingayen Gulf, about 135 miles due north of Manila in the Philippines. It has been a regional market center for centuries but has recently gained wider fame as “the Bangus Capital of the World.” Bangus, also known as milkfish, is one of the oldest farmed fish species in Asia. Over […]
Friends of Winrock
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Vision The organizing principle behind this network of thinkers and doers is simple: Winrock both treasures and benefits deeply from the experience, expertise and insight of farsighted individuals whose ideas can help Winrock complete its mission and to constantly improve. Since Winrock’s founding in 1985, the reach of our activities has steadily expanded, and now […]
ACR Updates Program Rules for Tokenization of Carbon Credits
May 31, 2022|post
May 31, 2022 – The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, has announced updated program rules, effective immediately, that prohibit the tokenization of ACR carbon offset credits unless explicitly authorized by ACR. The updated rules, detailed in the legal Terms of Use agreement with ACR account holders, are designed to protect carbon asset […]