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About : CLEAR II GLP
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CLEAR II works collaboratively with host governments to provide technical assistance to bring about meaningful reductions in child labor. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) and strives to support the goals described in USDOL’s most recent child labor report. Winrock International, along with partners Lawyers Without Borders and Veritè, uses […]
Winrock’s Innovation Fund Receives $576,302 from U.S. Department of Commerce to Support Arkansas Entrepreneurs
December 13, 2018|post
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — December 13, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Commerce announced that Winrock International has been awarded a $576,302 grant for the Innovation Fund (I-Fund) through the Economic Development Administration’s Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) program. “Entrepreneurs use their skills and creativity to turn ideas into successful businesses serving customers in their local […]
Lake Village, Arkansas: Small Town, Big Dreams
November 6, 2018|post
Lake Village, Arkansas, was recently named one of 12 finalists for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize. It beat out almost 200 other communities in this annual competition that awards $25,000 to the town that best transforms its neighborhoods, schools and businesses so that quality of life and quality of place flourish for […]
Address of Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson to Redlands Forum
September 25, 2018|post
Well, thank you, Shelly, and thank all of you for coming out tonight. When I heard that I’m coming before Dolores Huerta, it’s pretty daunting. I don’t have 11 kids, either. Also, I’d like to thank the colleagues at Esri, Jack and Laura Dangermond for their support, and the University of Redlands and the Town […]
Winrock Forward
July 17, 2018|post
Winrock President and CEO Rodney Ferguson outlines his vision for creating maximum impact. Interview by Chris Warren As the President and CEO of a development organization with projects in the U.S. and around the world, Rodney Ferguson often carves out reading time while on airplanes. On a recent trip from his home base in Washington, […]
SUCCESS STORY: Nghe An Bob bo Model
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The preservation, replanting, management and development of bon bo trees to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods of ethnic minority groups is one of the most successful forest business models developed under the USAID’s Vietnam Forests and Deltas (VFD) project. The model has been implemented in Que Phong, Ky Son, and Tuong Duong districts in Nghe […]
Protecting Resources, Improving Lives
March 27, 2018|post
By Lauren Keller, senior program associate and M&E specialist, Forestry and Natural Resource Management Nga Dang, Payment for Environmental Services development specialist. What do a pair of pigs have in common with a hydropower plant? Just ask Lang Thi Hoanh of Chieng Village in the Bat Mot commune of Vietnam. She and other women have […]
Innovative Pay-For-Performance Program Rewards Farmers For Improving Water Quality
August 29, 2017|post
Winrock International is pleased to announce the publication of Pay-For-Performance Conservation: A How-To Guide, a free comprehensive guide to implementing and managing Pay-For-Performance (PFP) conservation programs. The guide is based on Winrock’s decade of experience pioneering PFP conservation, including the Milwaukee River Pay-For-Performance Project, which reduced phosphorus losses by as much as 40 percent from […]
Pay-for-Performance Conservation: A How-To Guide
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Authors: Kristin A. Fisher, PhD, Jonathan R. Winsten, PhD, Elisabeth Spratt (all of Winrock International), Ryan Anderson (Delta Institute), Ryan Smith (Delta Institute) Water quality impairments resulting, in part, from agricultural nutrient runoff have remained stubbornly difficult to solve in the United States. Pay-for-Performance conservation capitalizes on scientific and technological advances to identify cost-effective land […]
Breaking New Ground
July 28, 2017|post
Joel Gordon grew up in North Little Rock and remembers a time when its downtown area — dubbed Argenta — was “the area of town that you tried not to be caught in.” These days, though, Argenta is “absolutely blooming.” Gordon, now the executive director of the Innovation Hub at Winrock International, is seeing the […]