Ethiopia
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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...
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,...
“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...