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Looking beyond the symptoms of poverty, to systemic solutions
It’s not Design Thinking. It’s Design Doing.
Anyone working in international development will tell you that it is critical to make the voice, needs and desires of your beneficiaries the core of every project. Development uses a number of methodologies to make sure program designers create solutions rooted in local priorities. What we often fail to do with these methodologies, though, is test...
Putting the buzz in the word: Innovation
Innovation has long been a part of Pact’s institutional fabric, perhaps best exemplified by our trailblazing work in capacity development over the past couple of decades. But until 2013, innovation at Pact had been organic, not intentional. That’s when the organization took the necessary step of making innovation a deliberate, resourced function...
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Local partners key to achieving global goals
More than 15 years ago, the global community established a set of goals to alleviate poverty, including establishing a global partnership for development. Today, a new chapter in our quest to improve the state of the world is upon us--the Sustainable Development Goals. While the aim of the goals is much broader in scope—17 SDGs spanning health,...
Talking shared value & smart business in Rome
We had our fair share of pasta and gelato, but for the more than 60 people who descended on Rome, Italy, last week for the Shared Value Practitioners Forum, the richness was in conversation, collaboration, and curiosity. Prego! Pact was 10-strong at the forum. Country directors from Nigeria, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Thailand, and Democratic...
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Keeping local solutions front and center in integrated development
This post originallly appeared on the Crowd360 website and is cross-posted with permission.
Addressing child labor demands an integrated approach
This post orginally appears on the Crowd360 website and is cross-posted with permission. In factories, fields, and mines around the world, 85 million children toil in hazardous conditions that directly jeopardize their health and safety. By its nature, this type of work puts their physical and mental development at risk on a daily basis. It...
Collabortion and the future of development
With the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals and the explicit mention of the private sector's role in achieving the global goals, there is a bevy of interest in public-private partnerships. One key area of interest is around shared value – an evolution of traditional corporate social responsibility in which the private sector incorporates...
Pact partner Golden Age University helps Belarus age gracefully
At age 70, Valentina Zvyarynskaya was living her life as many Belarusian seniors do. She stayed home a lot, took part in few community activities and rarely made new friends. Then she began attending courses at Golden Age University, or GAU, an organization based in the northwestern city of Grodno that encourages seniors to do more. Now 73,...
Through a youth group in Nepal, an activist finds her voice
Ask Laxmi Rokaya what she dreams of for her country, and the 19-year-old’s answer is modest. More opportunities for youth. The chance to go to school. Jobs. “Many young people here are unemployed,” Rokaya says. “They just wander around.” It’s one of many problems in Nepal that she hopes to help change.
Keeping children out of mineral supply chains
The sun is high and blistering down on a sparse landscape. Sounds of hammers and picks are constant throughout the hot day. People come and go, hauling heavy sacks of rocks from pits and tunnels to be crushed, washed and sold. This is life at an artisanal mine in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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