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Strengthening Migrant Participation in the Provincial Labor Protection System on the USAID Thailand CTIP Project
While significant progress was made in countering trafficking in persons (CTIP) in Thailand over the past two decades, including standardizing victim identification processes, streamlining the prosecution of trafficking cases, strengthening victim-centered assistance programs, and increasing translation services and outreach into vulnerable communities, Thailand still experiences significant patterns of human trafficking and forced labor. Migrant workers […]
District Level Anti- Trafficking in Person Committees in Border Provinces on the USAID Thailand CTIP Project
Local actors are important both for trafficking in persons (TIP) prevention and protection of survivors as they have deep connections with local communities and a better understanding of vulnerabilities to TIP and labor exploitation. In the past several years, Thailand has made significant progress with laws and policies at the national level, to punish perpetrators, […]
Indicator Guidance for Countering Trafficking in Persons Project
With the long-term aim of adopting higher standards and harmonization in measuring CTIP impact and results, USAID Asia CTIP launched the online MEL Toolkit in the Year Five (2020) of the project. The Toolkit aims to provide an easy to access location for USG standard indicators, 18 original CTIP indicators with indicator reference sheets and […]
Policy Brief: Engaging the Private Sector in Climate Adaptation Policies
Consensus is growing on the need for global climate change adaptation despite lack of agreement on how to fund it. According to the Adaptation Finance Gap Report produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2016, by 2030 adaptation costs will range between $140–300 billion per year (UNEP 2016). These costs cannot be covered […]
Policy Brief: Developing Climate-Resilient Infrastructure in Peru
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, […]
Policy Brief: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate-Resilient Coffee Production
The Private Investment for Enhanced Resilience project (PIER), funded by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in the U.S. Department of State (DOS) conducted a cost-benefit analysis of climate-resilient coffee production in Indonesia. Building on several activities PIER implemented to address the challenges of promoting climate-resilient value chains, including coffee, Winrock […]
Policy Brief: Financial Implications of Climate-Resilient Coffee and Cocoa
Coffee and cocoa are important global commodities, generating $17.9 billion for coffee-producing countries from October 2019–September 2020 (ICO 2021) and $9.6 billion for cocoa-producing countries in 2019 (OEC 2021). Approximately 70% of coffee (Alba 2019) and cocoa (IISD 2019) is produced by smallholder farmers (SHFs) who cultivate fewer than two hectares (ha) and who are […]
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
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 […]
The Use of Vulnerability Research to Inform Human Trafficking Interventions
According to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) human trafficking is “a crime that uses force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of exploiting an individual for profit through forced labor or sexual exploitation” (USAID, 2021). Despite the recognition of human trafficking as a devastating social injustice and an international crime as well as […]