Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

Contacts

Desirée Luis

country director
dluis@pactworld.org

USAID Civil Society Strengthening Activity

Country: Dominican Republic
Funder: USAID

This five-year project is advancing holistic citizen security in the Dominican Republic by strengthening local civil society organizations and civic leaders, as well as media outlets and journalists, and improving the legal and policy framework for supporting crime and violence prevention. Pact is leading the project, which is being implemented with our CSM-STAND consortium partners IREX, MAKAIA and ICNL, with a vision of transitioning technical leadership to a small cohort of local organizations.

Building Resilience Among Affected Families with HIV

Country: Dominican Republic
Funder: USAID

This project continues efforts to stem HIV and AIDS that Pact began in the Dominican Republic under the ACHIEVE project. The Building Resilience project is reducing barriers to HIV prevention and service delivery for Haitian migrants and descendants and their children affected by HIV to improve their health and wellbeing.