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Community REACH at work in South Africa. Read more...
Pact arrived in South Africa in 1991, working to strengthen the South African NGO sector by building the capacity of a new cadre of South African NGO leaders. As NGOs made the transition from fighting apartheid to building a new country, Pact helped them to reshape the visions and missions of their organizations, through a dynamic organizational development and strategic management training program. That program ran for ten years, through 2001.
After a two-year hiatus, Pact returned to South Africa in 2003 with a program to strengthen partnerships between CBOs and local governments and to increase public participation in government-led development initiatives.
In early 2004 under the auspices of Pact’s global Community REACH program, Pact began providing grants to grassroots HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa. Pact was subsequently asked also to manage a USAID-funded Southern Africa Regional HIV/AIDS program, covering Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana.
In October 2007 Pact signed a cooperative agreement with USAID to manage an HIV/AIDS Umbrella Grants Managments Program (UGM) in South Africa, providing support to 18 NGO partners and indirectly to more than 300 CBO subpartners throughout the country. |
