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Winrock Expands Monitoring and Evaluation Efforts
June 25, 2020|post
To read a new, open-source Winrock Guidance Document for COVID-19, click here. When Niry Ramasinjatovo was growing up in Madagascar, she saw first-hand the benefits of international development, how “it creates opportunity and resilience and self-reliance.” Now Ramasinjatovo, an award-winning professional on the cutting edge of development practice, is heading up Winrock’s new Analytics, Gender, […]
The People of PIER: Meghan Doherty
June 24, 2020|post
What is your role within the PIER project? My primary role is acting as the team’s resilience coordinator. I support with research and project design to ensure PIER interventions have a clear tie to climate risk and include activities that enhance resilience. In addition, I lead the monitoring and evaluation work for the project. I […]
New Award Continues Winrock Legacy of Creating Clean Energy Markets in Nepal
June 23, 2020|post
Winrock International has been named to lead a new initiative to accelerate clean cookstove market growth funded by the U.K.’s DFID-funded Modern Energy Cooking Services Challenge Fund at Loughborough University. Winrock has supported Nepal’s clean energy transition since the early 2000s, collaborating with both the public and private sector to create the current enabling environment […]
Serious ‘Games’ That Reduce Real Risks
June 22, 2020|post
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for virtual solutions to help organizations continue their operations while maintaining health and safety. A Louisiana company that took part in a startup accelerator implemented by Winrock International is filling this need by working with organizations to craft virtual, immersive compliance training programs that resemble video games. The […]
Winrock Helps Arkansas Small Businesses in Phillips County Seek Disaster Relief Aid
June 22, 2020|post
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — June 22, 2020 — Winrock International is providing small businesses in Phillips County, Arkansas, with one-on-one guidance on how to navigate funding available through recent federally-approved programs. With only a fraction of the more than 200,000 small businesses in Arkansas applying for funding offered through the Small Business Administration (SBA) and other federal agencies, […]
The opportunities of Big Data for Water Security
June 18, 2020|post
As coordinator of the Big Data Analytics and Transboundary Water Management Collaboration for Southern Africa, the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) works to provide important training sessions for both the teams conducting research for the Collaboration and the broader development sector. These training sessions began in 2019 with an eight-part training series with experts from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). SWP followed these trainings with a second webinar series in the spring of 2020 […]
Thailand Migrant Protection Resource Toolkit to Reduce Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation
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USAID Thailand Counter Trafficking in Persons developed this resource toolkit as a platform for civil society organizations (CSO) to access information and materials to assist them in conducting outreach and awareness-raising activities related to the rights and support for migrant communities. Information is empowerment. Providing migrant workers the information about basic rights, TIP risks, signs, […]
Screening Tool and National Referral Mechanism Help Jamaica Fight Child Trafficking
June 12, 2020|post
According to the U.S. Department of State’s (USDOS) 2019 Trafficking in Persons report, Jamaica has made significant progress in fighting human trafficking, including investigating and prosecuting more traffickers and publishing its first annual report on human trafficking in Jamaica. However, Jamaica remains a Tier 2 country within the USDOS ranking system (with 3 being the […]
Exploring Big Data Solutions for Southern Africa
June 10, 2020|post
In its role as coordinator of the Big Data Analytics and Transboundary Water Collaboration, the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) facilitates the integration of a group of public, private and nonprofit organizations researching the use of big data to improve management of the Ramotswa transboundary aquifer in Southern Africa. The Collaboration partners have sponsored four research teams, each looking at different ways to use big data analysis to improve water security for the Ramotswa Aquifer, shared between […]
Water Balance for the Stung Chinit Watershed, Cambodia
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This report presents the results of a water balance study of the Stung Chinit Watershed in Cambodia. Water balance studies provide an estimation of the supply of water through rainfall, the distribution and impact of that rainfall across the landscape and compares that to anthropogenic demand from agriculture and domestic uses. This information can be […]