In a world that demands measurement and accountability, Winrock has the tools to provide them. A leader in providing scientific and data-driven accounting of ecosystem services, Winrock has developed a series of innovative tools that marry advanced science with intuitive, user-friendly interfaces to support informed decision-making. Winrock tools monitor greenhouse gas emissions, evaluate the impact […]
Geraldina Deras, Técnica del Instituto de ConservaciónForestal de Honduras destacó que el rol del Proyecto CuencaAlta del Río Lempa en la zona “para nosotros es de muchasatisfacción, ya que esto nos ayuda a unir esfuerzos para unacuenca trinacional, de interés de los tres países”.
Funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Delta Health Care Service Grant, Winrock International and its consortium, Ozarka College and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, implemented a two-year project that delivered opioid and substance abuse training, education, and awareness to Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp, and Stone counties in north-central and northeast […]
According to the ILO, Asia-Pacific is home to more than half of the world’s internet users and around two billion people in the region use internet daily through their mobile phones.1,2 Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the internet has become a vital part of daily life that offers new solutions to emerging and traditional challenges. […]
The Safe Migration in Central Asia Project (SMICA) is a five-year program funded by USAID and implemented by Winrock International (WI). The project aims to increase the capacity of all stakeholders to meet their mutual responsibilities, so they are more self-reliant in their efforts to prevent human trafficking and forced labour, protect victims of human […]
In this report, we wanted to collect these assumptions to clarify the difficulties surrounding the collection of trafficking case data. We hope this report will demonstrate that even basic assumptions cannot be taken for granted. In the area of data collection in trafficking, we believe the field is still at its nascent stage in terms […]
Despite Thailand’s heavy reliance on a seasonal work force of Cambodian workers in multiple sectors in the eastern Special Economic Zones, this seasonal mode of labor migration remains opaque to workers leading to high cost of migration and their access to social protection remain limited.
Winrock International is providing The Everglades Foundation with assistance to estimate annual greenhouse gas emissions from lands cultivated for sugarcane in the Everglades Agricultural Area, which is dominated by sugarcane cultivation. This includes emissions from land preparation, management, harvest, and transportation of sugarcane, as well as the emissions from rotational crops grown on fallow sugarcane […]
This report outlines the initial impact of the USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Program (LFPA). Through partnerships with state agencies, and territory and tribal governments, this innovative new program is investing more than $864 million into local communities and regional agriculture value chains in just three years. The novel federal procurement program is expected to […]
In 2019, the Royal Thai Government issued the “Ministry of Labor’s Ministerial Regulation on the Jobs the Foreigners Cannot Hold,” updating the list of jobs entirely or partially prohibited to foreigners in Thailand. To better understand the effects this regulation has had on migrant workers in Thailand, the USAID Thailand CTIP Activity conducted a qualitative […]