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Amanuel Dibaba

country director
adibaba@pactworld.org

Brittany Haga

program officer
bhaga@pactworld.org

Expanding community engagement and social accountability to boost governance and health in Ethiopia

March 24, 2023
In international development, social accountability works as an approach that promotes change by engaging communities and strengthening civil society to hold governments accountable. Pact’s ...

In the Horn of Africa, transformational use of data and evidence help to stem conflict, build peace

March 6, 2023
In global development, it’s sometimes simple to identify our goals and measure our impact. Our goal might be to boost childhood immunizations in a given community, for example, as measured by the...

Pact receives grant to promote peacebuilding activities in Ethiopia

September 20, 2022
Pact will be implementing an 18-month, $2.3 million program funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor entitled “Mobilizing and Enhancing Local Actors for...

With support from Pact, communities along the Kenya-Ethiopia border work together to end raids, build peace

September 6, 2022
  It was a dangerous situation that could have ended very differently for communities along the Kenya-Ethiopia border that have long been at odds. In the spring, a group of Dassenach youth stole a...

To build peace in the Horn of Africa, Pact focuses on climate change

June 2, 2022
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,...

Blog series: Methods to inform responsive, community-led programming

March 18, 2022
This four-part blog series describes a core group of ‘good practices’ that Pact implemented in the Horn of Africa. The European Union Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF)-funded Regional Approaches for...

Photo story: Peace dividends

September 21, 2021
Pact fosters community engagement in conflict management.

Q&A: Celebrating Africa Day with Pact leaders across the continent

May 24, 2021
On May 25, 1963, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded as the precursor to the African Union (AU). Each year, Africa Day commemorates the OAU’s...
Deputy President William Ruto (left), Ethiopian Ambassador to Kenya Meles Alem (center) and EU Acting Ambassador and Head of Cooperation for Kenya Hubert Perr.

EU awards Pact €3 million to expand peacebuilding in East Africa

May 19, 2021
Pact has secured the support of a European Union grant for €3,137,520 to expand peacebuilding activities in Ethiopia and Kenya. The project, SEEK II, will address drivers of conflict,...
'Mama Amani' Elizabeth Kalany. (Credit: Kelah Kathure/Pact)

“Peace is an action of transformed thinking”: A community change agent in Kenya makes peace her life's work

February 25, 2021
Asked what she does for a living, Elizabeth Kalany’s answer is an emphatic, “My work is peace.” It is this selfless pursuit of togetherness and harmony that drives Mama Amani, as she is known in...

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