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Adolescents Engaged in Dried Fish Processing Look for Alternative Livelihoods
Nasima Akter is an ambitious, 14-year-old girl of Nazirartek, a suburb of Cox’s Bazar Sadar. She is one of the many adolescents to engage in the handcraft development and skills training from Swopnojal, an NGO providing alternative sources of income to those engaged in dried fish processing.
May 2021 SWP Newsletter
In the May 2021 SWP newsletter: 2020 SWP Annual Report now available Updated toolkit and new case studies published Launch of the Water Allocation Plan for the Lower Mara River Basin
Scaling Up Solar Pumps for Irrigation and Domestic Water Use in Ethiopia: The Role of Blended Finance
By Rishikesh Bhandary,Kyle Karber, Easwaran Narassimhana, and Bikash Pandey | October2020 Solar pumps have the potential to help meet household and agriculture-related water needs in Ethiopia. With Ethiopia’s electrification rate standing at only 45%, solar pumps would enable energy access and create multiple co-benefits.1 Currently, diesel pumps are used in most rural agricultural applications. This […]
Comprehensive Mixed-Method Research on Child Labor in the Dried Fish Sector on Cox’s Bazar
This report is an outcome of a joint collaboration between Winrock International (Winrock) and the Sustainable Upliftment Initiative Trust (SUIT), thanks to funding and support from U.S. Department of Labor (USDoL). With generous guidance and expert feedback from Kerry Richter (Winrock International Project Adviser), the report has been prepared by a SUIT research team comprising […]
Survivors’ Perspectives on Successful Reintegration After Trafficking
This new report by the Institute of Development Studies in association with USAID’s Asia Counter Trafficking in Person, implemented by Winrock, examines trafficking survivors’ experiences in their reintegration journeys from the survivors’ perspectives and in their own words. In-depth research conducted in Bangladesh and Cambodia centers discussion about reintegration around survivors as agents in shaping […]
Learning Action Brief: A Social network Analysis of CTIP CSPs in the Asia Region
A social network analysis (SNA) is a method to study and observe social structures of a particular population. It can be applied to various disciplines and at various scales. A basic social network is made up of nodes, which are the subjects, and edges, which show the connectivity between the subjects. The purpose of a […]
Child Labour Must End in Dried Fish Industry
The USDOL Child Labor Improvements in Bangladesh (CLIMB) project, implemented by Winrock, hosted a virtual roundtable, “Seeking Ways to End Child Labor in the Dried Fish Processing Industry” on Nov. 30, 2020. The event featured a presentation of CLIMB’s research findings on the status of child labor in the dried fish sector. Updates were provided […]