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Q&A: Why data-driven, evidence-based programming is critical in global development
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Our pledge – Pact commits to net zero emissions by 2030
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Blog series: Methods to inform responsive, community-led programming
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Partnerships are the past, present and future of Pact
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The private sector must step up against climate change, and foreign aid is helping companies do it
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To ensure Africa fulfills its potential, focus on women and girls
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Harnessing artisanal and small-scale mining to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals
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Meet ‘HIV resilience heroes’ – leading the charge in the global fight against AIDS
In Eswatini, here’s how we’re reaching more than 6,000 children with HIV treatment
Eswatini has a population of slightly more than a million people yet has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. That's why it is even more impressive that Eswatini was one of only two countries to achieve the ambitious 95-95-95 fast track targets in 2020 and is swiftly approaching sustained control of the epidemic.
To build peace in the Horn of Africa, Pact focuses on climate change
As it is across much of the world, climate change is significantly affecting weather patterns across the Horn of Africa, resulting in more unpredictable rainfall and more extreme weather events, including droughts, flooding and invasions of weather-dependent insects like locusts. These events raise the region’s vulnerability to serious food...
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Amid war and hardship, I’ve seen so much resilience: Pact’s Ukraine country director reflects
I was asleep when the phone rang around 5 a.m. on Feb. 24. “It’s started,” I heard my son’s voice say. I knew immediately what he meant. The United States and the UK had been warning for months that Russia was planning a war in Ukraine much bigger than the one that had been simmering on our eastern border for eight years. Still, I went numb.
Savings, loans and empowerment: Lessons from 20 years of WORTH
Pact’s longstanding livelihoods model, WORTH, is a critical tool for building financial access and incomes around the world. Since its inception in Nepal in 1998, WORTH has reached 1.14 million individuals, primarily women and girls, through 48,342 groups across 16 countries. To recognize and learn from this milestone, we recently conducted a...
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To empower clients in improving their own health services, Pact turns to community-led monitoring
Last year, Pact’s health programming reached nearly 2 million people. From Africa to Asia, we supported communities as they accessed better maternal and child health care, improved and expanded the reach of local HIV services, and much more.
Establishing Sierra Leone’s first formal gold mining association for responsible trade
Sierra Leone’s burgeoning artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector provides critical livelihoods for women and young men in a place where viable income-generating options are few. But the ASGM sector here is also largely informal and associated with a range of serious social and environmental challenges, including mercury use.
How Pact is supporting women’s efforts to tackle climate change
We – that is, human beings -- are changing the climate faster than we can adapt to it, according to IPCC’s latest report published last week. However, there is still hope and, more importantly, time to act. On International Women’s Day and every day, Pact works to help all people thrive and be resilient, regardless of gender.
'The moment to act is now’: Pact’s Hanta Rabefarihy reflects on a career protecting Madagascar’s natural resources
In Madagascar, the fourth most vulnerable country to climate change, Hanta Rabefarihy is working “to leave a legacy of hope for the future” as she approaches her retirement. “As a woman, I feel that the precariousness of life hurts, thinking about the children and future generations. But my past experiences have shown that positive changes are...
‘How can I afford to not work on climate change?’ Pact’s Christy Owen fosters sustainability in Southeast Asia and beyond
Christy Owen began working on environmental issues a bit by accident when she took an entry-level project assistant job with a USAID-funded water program after college. In many ways, though, it was a perfect fit. “My interest in international development started at home,” Owen recalls. Her parents spent time with the Peace Corps in Liberia. “I...
In the Amazon, a climate linchpin, Pact’s Vanessa Coronado builds indigenous capacity to protect rights, the environment
It was late 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic had been halting life around the world for months. The Amazon region was no exception, but Pact’s team and local partners there were determined to not let the virus stall progress on the SCIOA project.
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