“Formerly, migrant workers did not dare do anything especially interacting with Thai government officers. After they gained more knowledge from us, they felt prepared to coordinate with those officers. They were confident to speak up for their rights. This is how they have been changed.” – DEN
“People might think that women should always submit to men. Women should stay home, cooking and cleaning, while men are the breadwinners. This is gender inequality. For me, I believe that men and women are equal. Even if we are women, we can work and rely on ourselves.” – PHUU PWINT KHAING
“I think we should participate in the activities or trainings to educate ourselves about our rights and gender equality. I wish everyone would keep updated on this issue.” – AYE MI SAN
Over the past 20 years, Niger, a semi-arid country in West Africa, has faced multiple severe drought episodes with short- and long-term consequences for its most vulnerable inhabitants. No longer having enough money to live, they must resort to harmful coping strategies such as taking children out of school, reducing their daily meals, or selling […]
In Burkina Faso, a landlocked country of West Africa, surface water reservoirs, locally called “dams”, remain crucial for livestock, agriculture, and other economic activities like brickmaking or gold panning. But their sustainability is threatened both by the effects of climate change (the country is facing a temperature increase of 2°C since 1950) and human bad […]
Ten smallholder farmers in the shrimp and prawn sector share their accomplishments using the improved science-based technologies and farming techniques offered by the Safe Aqua Farming for Economic and Trade Improvement project.
This learning paper focuses on the USAID Thailand CTIP project’s activities focused on strengthening protection systems, specifically the strengthening of Multi-disciplinary Teams (MDTs), through two key learning questions: In what ways does the strengthening of Thailand’s MDTs improve the quality, availability, and accessibility of protection services in the country? How do we increase safe and […]
Based on the wealth of experience within USAID Thailand CTIP, this Learning Paper Series was developed to highlight crucial learnings to be widely disseminated to USAID, Winrock staff, and other stakeholders working in CTIP that want to ensure high quality program design and delivery.
The learning question explored in this paper is, “What key contextual factors in Thailand can affect USAID Thailand CTIP interventions and at-risk populations?”
This paper presents five key learnings derived from the learning question, “How effective are the bilateral MoUs on employment cooperation with the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar? What adjustments could benefit this approach”