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Advancing Organic Agriculture in the Mid-South: Evaluating Systems and Reducing Barriers to Entry
Organic production can significantly improve on-farm income and profitability in comparison to conventional commodity production. At the same time, higher output prices and lower breakeven acreage required can increase profit if production costs can be kept in check (McBride et al., 2015). Premiums are rising and improved genetics and management tools combine to make overall […]
House Vulnerability Assessment: Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts (MATE MASIE)
The Making Advances to Eliminate Child Labor in More Areas with Sustainable Integrated Efforts (MATE MASIE) initiative is a four-year project funded by the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) that aims to strengthen capacity, connections, and accountability across child labor enforcement and monitoring within cocoa cooperatives in Ghana. The project also seeks to build […]
Covid-19 & Social Audits: What Have We Learnt?
This paper examines the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on global supply chains, from a modern slavery perspective. It particularly focuses on how modern slavery has impacted the ability of companies to conduct social audits and reach workers within their supply chains. We consider the use of technology to overcome the disruption caused […]
Learning from our Actions: How can we be Comfortable with Failure?
Failure provides educational moments, which, although tough and awkward to deal with at times, contributes to long-term learning and improvement of programming. From a CTIP perspective, it can contribute to the sustainability of support and services that are crucial to survivors. This paper dives deeply into this issue, analyzing and synthesizing feedback from CTIP practitioners […]
Master Enforcement Training Program: Enforcing the Labor and Criminal Law to Address Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
Winrock International (Winrock) developed this training program in response to an enforcement assessment it conducted as part of the Attaining Lasting Change for Better Enforcement of Labor and Criminal Law to Address Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking (ATLAS) project. The assessment was conducted in ATLAS countries to identify capacity strengthening needs of labor […]
Circular: Detailing the Implementation of a Number of Articles of the Law on Environmental Protection
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Law on Environmental Protection and Decree No 08/2022/ND-CP
The Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA) under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), and Winrock International are collaborating to implement the Reducing Pollution Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The project is implemented for 5 years (2021-2026), aiming to promote local initiatives and strengthen the capacity of organizations and […]
Best Practices and Lesson Learned Report
This report consolidates the ATLAS project’s deliberations about best practices, lessons learned, and recommendations for future projects. It draws primarily from the project’s “closeout” activity, an in-person Pause and Reflect Workshop convened by Winrock in September 2022 in Washington, DC. These workshops have been a regular part of the ATLAS project’s monitoring and evaluation activities, […]
Migrant Workers Policy and Vulnerability to Labour Trafficking in Malaysia: Lessons and Gaps from Existing Literature
Since 2018, with the first change of the federal government after 60 years of independence, Malaysia has seen notable policy shifts in labour policy. These include amendments of employment and social protection regulations, as well as the strengthening of national action plans in addressing trafficking in persons and forced labour. All of which aimed to […]