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Our pledge – Pact commits to net zero emissions by 2030
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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
Do community-led programs have a role in Covid-19 vaccine preparedness? Lessons from Colombia
Community engagement is widely acknowledged as essential for achieving effective and equitable Covid-19 vaccination to end this pandemic. Yet, there is limited understanding of how development activities that are reaching most vulnerable populations can support this effort.
Partnerships between the public, private and civil society sectors are key to promoting women's democratic participation
On International Democracy Day, we're highlighting the importance of recognizing and overcoming the barriers women face to equal political and social participation in Colombia.
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Local Civil Society Organizations as Key Actors to Reduce Child Labour in Rural Colombia
Rather than bolstering the economic fortunes of its residents, gold mining has entrenched conditions of poverty and chronic violence. Some children in San Martín engage in mining, especially in artisanal and small-scale gold mines (ASGM).
New grants and fellowships aim to raise local voices from the Mekong region
It was a regular Wednesday morning in Bangkok. Pact’s Thailand staff, working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, kept an eye on the Zoom chat as the screen began to fill with faces. Participants from around the Mekong region posted introductions and greetings. The event was the first of two ‘virtual roadshows’—open online sessions—for civil...
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Environmental justice and advocacy to save Madagascar’s largest dry forest
USAID Hay Tao, part of the larger Conservation and Communities Project, is creating an enabling and empowering environment for effective community-based management and protection of Madagascar’s biodiversity and natural resources.
Pact’s Vocational Education Programme
Since 2015, Pact has worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo to eliminate and address child labour in Artisanal Small-scale Mining (ASM), which is one of the worst forms of child labour. We use a multisectoral approach in collaboration with communities, administrative authorities, companies and child miners themselves. In this approach, we have...
Electrifying rural healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
The link between healthcare and energy is garnering more attention due to both the Covid-19 pandemic and a continuing decline in distributed energy prices. Pact and a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University have conducted a year-long study of viable options for electrifying rural healthcare facilities to develop new frameworks for...
Turning the informal into the new normal: Social accountability in a federalizing Nepal
Over the last decade, Nepalis embarked on a historic transition that aims to alter the fundamental structures of government. As many remain hopeful for more responsive governance in the new federal system, questions remain on how longstanding social accountability mechanisms will evolve and adapt, including in response to the Covid-19 pandemic....
Integrated solutions to energy access in Tanzania
Despite the government’s deliberate initiatives to reach more people, Tanzania lags behind in its grid electricity connection targets. Only 24.5% of rural households in Tanzania have access to electricity. To help realize a future where all people enjoy the benefits of modern energy, Pact develops solutions and implements projects to expand access...
Supporting small, women-led gemstone mining in Tanzania
When the Gemological Institute of America approached Pact in 2016 about piloting a rough gemstone guide for miners, we knew immediately knew where to start—an association of women miners, the Tanzanian Women Miners Association, or TAWOMA.
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