Resources
A-Report – Winrock RA – Annex 8 Score Measurement Template
The A-Report provides a set of a Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that represent the key factors needed to assess sustainable practices. The A-Report covers three elements: an assessment checklist, a score-calculation system, and a report template.
A-Report – Winrock RA – Annex 5 Lampiran 5
The A-Report provides a set of a Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that represent the key factors needed to assess sustainable practices. The A-Report covers three elements: an assessment checklist, a score-calculation system, and a report template.
Sustainable Water Partnership Newsletter May 2018
Ramping up water infrastructure means looking beyond building new pipes and pumps. Natural infrastructure, like healthy forests, plays a valuable role in supporting clean water. Featured in this issue: Infrastructure Week: Don’t Forget Forests Crisis in Cape Town No Water, No Power Click here to subscribe to this newsletter.
Reducing GHG Emissions from Peat Lands and Oil Palm in Indonesia: A Jurisdictional Approach
Over the last 30 years Indonesia has become a dominant global commodity supplier of palm oil and pulp and paper and while this has been a major contributor to the economic development of the country, this production has resulted in significant forest loss and the draining of peatlands. This has led to degradation of the […]
Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Project Northern Ghana Land Use Ecosystem Service and Economic Valuation Study
Study assessing the ecosystem services and economic benefits of land uses and changes in land use in Northern Ghana. Abstract: Mounting pressure from population growth, natural resource shortages, development demands, and an increasingly erratic climate has left communities in northern Ghana to face significant challenges in balancing short-and long-term food security and financial needs. Produced […]
TGCC Ghana Final Report and Lessons Learned: Improving Tenure Security to Support Sustainable Cocoa
Worldwide, forests are being lost at an alarming rate, driven by the expansion of internationally traded commodities. In response, companies are making efforts to reduce and eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. In 2016, Hershey’s and Ecom Agroindustrial Corp (ECOM) began collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Tenure and Global Climate […]
Evaluating the Return on Investment (ROI) for an “Empowered Entrepreneur Training” in Tanzania
This Return on Investment (ROI) study was sponsored by Winrock International through its USAID-funded Developing a Sustainable Cookstove Sector project. It examines the organizational impacts of Empowered Entrepreneur Training Handbook (EETH) activities, which were developed to support organizations that engage women entrepreneurs or sales agents in order to ultimately enhance the distribution and sale of […]
SUCCESS STORY: An Improved Silvicultures Strategy for Sustainable Forest Management
Thuong Xuan is one of the seven poorest districts in Thanh Hoa province. In the district, there are more than 90,000 hectares (ha) of forest area, of which 12,000 ha have been used for acacia mangium. Acacia has been a popular plantation species in Vietnam because of its fast growth rate and short rotation times, […]
SUCCESS STORY: Community-Based Forest Management in Nghe An Province
Nghe An province is located in the north central coast of Vietnam. It is the largest province in the country, covering 1,649,270 hectares. The province contains over 888,695 ha of forestland, mainly located in the western areas of the province. Nghe An has a large area of natural and planted forests which covers 71.6% of […]