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American Carbon Registry Presents Annual Awards
August 6, 2013|post
SAN FRANCISCO (April 17, 2013) — Last night, the American Carbon Registry (ACR), a nonprofit enterprise of Winrock International, hosted its annual awards event. Welcoming invitees, Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson affirmed Winrock’s continued commitment to supporting the American Carbon Registry in its role as an innovator in the voluntary carbon market, as well as […]
Love and Respect for the American People
February 15, 2013|volunteer
Winrock’s F2F staff in Nigeria recently re-visited some of the host organizations that received volunteer support over the last year. These visits are a way for us to see first-hand how the volunteer trainings have impacted each organization. Sometimes the feedback is especially inspiring. The managing director from Ogbuka Green Merchandise, a Nigerian agribusiness that […]
Partnering with the private sector to transform water management in Liberia
October 30, 2024|post
“The installation of pumps in our homes and the construction of the kiosk in Telboima Community by Peace & Development Outreach Volunteers (PDOV) with technical support from the government of Liberia through the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) will go a long way in improving the social and economic well-being of the residents of […]
Pairing CSi and Krayasart
October 29, 2024|post
#thaiRAIN Success Story Innovation Forum Paired with Thai Tradition In Thailand and neighboring countries, the Festival of the 10th Lunar Month holds a special place in local traditions. It is a time when people pay homage to their ancestors with the season’s first harvest, a tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Among the foods […]
Meet the Wallace Center’s Arkansas Food Systems Fellows
October 23, 2024|post
The Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Network is thrilled to announce the 2024 Arkansas Food Systems Fellowship cohort. The Arkansas Food Systems Fellowship supports a diverse cohort of 24 Arkansan leaders with training and technical assistance to understand the context and systems they are working in, and to provide the resources needed to shift those […]
SMICA RFA 24-01-TKM
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Activities should support reducing vulnerability of at-risk populations and migrants to all forms of trafficking in persons (TIP), enhancing identification and referral of trafficked persons, providing direct and humanitarian assistance and advice on employment opportunities to vulnerable migrants and foreign trafficking victims. Under this RFA, the SMICA project in Turkmenistan is seeking interested applicants who […]
Request for Application (RFA) No: 24 – 01 – KZ
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The Safe Migration in Central Asia (SMICA) is a seven-year project implemented by Winrock International in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The overarching goal of SMICA is to strengthen the mutual accountability of all stakeholders, including governments, non-government organizations (NGOs), and the private sector to become more […]
Request for Application RFA-6997-24-23 on Building an Air Pollution Forecasting and Early Warning System Applying Machine Learning Models for Urban Areas in Vietnam
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Winrock International (Winrock) is implementing the Reducing Pollution Project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Prime Award Number: 72044021CA00002 in close collaboration with Project Management Unit (PMU) under the Pollution Control Department (PCD) as the Project Owner and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) as the Executive Agency. The […]
Friends of Clean Air: a #thaiRAIN Success Story
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The success story (#5) is about one of the climate-smart innovations that is quickly becoming a highlight of #thaiRAIN. The microbial solutions, designed to accelerate decomposition of organic farm material, i.e. rice stubble that returns the nutrients to the soil. Many Thai rice farmers burn the agricultural residue to prepare their land for subsequent crop, […]
Silent heroes: Partnering with informal waste collectors to reduce plastic pollution
October 14, 2024|post
Each day, massive amounts of plastic waste continue to be generated in cities across Vietnam. With 1.8 million tons of plastic discarded annually, the recycling rate of just 27% feels alarmingly inadequate. Each year, between 280,000 and 730,000 tons of plastic waste end up in the ocean — equivalent to the weight of about 2,000 […]