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Winrock and Cartwheel partnership will develop promising tech startups in Northwest Arkansas
December 9, 2021|post
A new business acceleration project funded by Walton Family Foundation creates a fast path from concept to commercial enterprise for software services firms with big potential December 9, 2021 ─ Winrock International and Cartwheel, an Arkansas-based startup studio, are collaborating on a $1.2 million project funded by the Walton Family Foundation to identify and validate […]
LEAF Coalition Announces $1 Billion Mobilized, Intent for REDD+ Transactions and New Participants
November 9, 2021|post
GLASGOW — November 8, 2021 – The Secretariat of the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), hosted by Winrock International, welcomes the series of announcements last week at COP26 by the LEAF (Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest finance) Coalition. At the World Leaders’ Summit, LEAF announced it has mobilized $1 billion USD for forest country governments […]
Beating the Opioid Crisis: Transforming Stigma into Support for Prevention and Awareness
October 27, 2021|post
Arkansas has the second-highest opioid prescription rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It’s an alarming statistic: For every 100 people in The Natural State, physicians issued an average of 93.5 prescriptions of the highly-addictive, pain-relieving drugs in 2018, the latest year for which CDC data are available. […]
Building a Food-Secure, Climate-Resilient Future
October 20, 2021|post
It’s late August in Senegal: the weather has turned hot and wet. Even along the country’s Atlantic coast, daily highs hover around 90 degrees. Some of the national parks are closed. Tourists, along with migratory birds including Eurasian spoonbills, royal terns and greater flamingos have gone in search of milder weather further from the Equator. […]
Digital Inclusion: Boosting Broadband Connectivity Key to Renewal in Underserved U.S. Communities
October 4, 2021|post
Kevin Smith, the mayor of Helena-West Helena, Ark., sits at his desk in City Hall virtually disconnected from the rest of the world. If he needs to send an email, conduct research online, or just connect to a video conference, the city’s top elected official is forced to wait. He stares at his computer screen, […]
Working with U.S. Farmers and Local Partners to Protect Water and Soil Health
August 27, 2021|post
Wisconsin’s Kickapoo River has a complicated history. For thousands of years, Indigenous people managed this agroecological landscape for foraged food, crops, and game ── most recently the Ho-Chunk, Oceti Sakowin, Meskwaki, and Kickapoo people. When European settlers displaced these Indigenous peoples from much of their homeland, cut down trees, and began to plow the watershed’s […]
USAID Reducing Pollution
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The USAID Reducing Pollution activity is a five-year project that supports locally-driven initiatives that substantially reduce environmental pollution in Vietnam through a collective impact approach. The project will build the capacity of government, local nongovernmental organizations and private sector partners to prevent, mitigate and reduce environmental pollution, and increase the capacity of stakeholders to generate, […]
Winrock Publishes Detailed Guide to Payment For Forest Environmental Services System
July 15, 2021|post
The USAID Vietnam Forests and Deltas (VFD) climate change activity wrapped up in May 2021 after nine years of evolutionary work supporting the Government of Vietnam’s efforts to protect and preserve one of the country’s most important natural resources: its forests. Implemented by Winrock, the project’s legacy is well established, and was lauded in a […]
VFD Final Report
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The USAID-funded Vietnam Forests and Deltas (VFD) Program leaves behind a legacy of improved policy, strengthened institutions, and innovative models that have improved natural resource management and increased the resilience of vulnerable communities. This success has been based on a model of partnership and collaboration with Government of Vietnam (GVN) partners, which ensures ownership of […]
Communities, Companies and Conservation: Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES) Practitioner’s Guidebook
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The Vietnam Forests and Deltas Project (VFD) ran from 2012-2021 in partnership with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The first phase of VFD supported the acceleration of Vietnam’s transition to climate-resilient, low-emission, sustainable development by improving forest and natural resource management and engaging communities in the development of action plans to address […]