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Ending development’s power imbalance: Why Pact is creating a first-of-its-kind ‘Shareholder Council’
Spotlight on Pact's social enterprise lead
This post originally appeared on the Vanderbilt Turner Family Center for Social Ventures’ website and has been cross-posted with permission.
Using data to tell the artisanal and small-scale mining story
This post originally appeared on the World Bank website and has been cross-posted with permission. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a critical livelihood for millions of people across the world. And artisanal miners produce a significant portion of the world’s minerals and gemstones, often enduring difficult and hazardous working...
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5 lessons from a conversation with USAID’s chief of design innovation
Innovation is a nebulous topic that often means 20 different things to 20 different people. This week, Pact hosted Seema Patel, Chief of Design Innovation at USAID’s Global Development Lab, for an armchair conversation that sought to demystify many of the interworkings of USAID’s innovation arm and how it works with the rest of the agency.
3 lessons from my seat at the impact investing table
In Fall 2015, The Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE), GOAL, InsideNGO, Mercy Corps and Pact launched the INGOs in Impact Investing Network, a new forum for INGOs to learn, collaborate, conduct joint research and collectively advocate. What originally began as a small group of like-minded people swapping stories of their triumphs...
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Putting our hands up to eliminate the scourge of HIV
In 1988, the year of the first World AIDS Day, an HIV diagnosis was considered a death sentence. All we had for treatment in those days was one single drug known as AZT. Our approach to prevention was to help people find approaches they could incorporate into their lives. We called it the menu approach, and that menu included condoms, dental dams...
At MIT design summit in Zambia, real design with real people
What if world-leading organizations teamed up to develop and scale technology and business solutions to end global poverty? This question, currently on the MIT Practical Impact Alliance (PIA) homepage, is one we’re asking ourselves at Pact, too.
Local solutions in action: How Pact is using human-centered design to act on beneficiary feedback
One of Pact’s core values is local solutions. In short, this means we believe that true success can only come from solutions created in partnership with the people we serve. It’s why Pact’s innovation team, which I lead, decided to make beneficiary feedback the focus of our first-ever Global Innovation Competition.
100 million ideas for $100 million
Like many nonprofits around the world, Pact buzzed with excitement around the release of the MacArthur 100&Change competition in the spring of 2016. The MacArthur Foundation was offering an unprecedented $100 million grant to fund a single proposal that can make measurable progress toward solving a critical problem of our time. Solutions...
Building organizational capacity across the continuum of care in Indonesia
For most of his life, John Jonathan Nap has dedicated himself to helping others. It was an example set for him by his father, who moved their family of nine from Indonesia’s comfortable coast to its desolate highlands to serve as a missionary and teacher when Nap was young. “I believe that on this earth there should be someone who sacrifices their...
Development experts tease out opportunities and challenges for integration research and practice
This post originally appeared on the Locus website and has been cross-posted with permission. Although it comes with challenges, integration is essential to international development and holds vast potential for achieving more sustainable results, a panel of experts agreed during a wide-ranging discussion on integrated programming.
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