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Birth registrations are a vital tool for stopping HIV in Eswatini
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Illegal farming is harming Madagascar's biodiversity. Here’s what USAID Hay Tao is doing to stop it.
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Pact’s REFRESH project uses data, new collection app to help restore Lake Malawi
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For Tanzanian children living with HIV, simple stickers help ensure they remain on treatment
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In Eswatini, two local Pact partners make a huge leap forward as they ‘graduate’ to direct USAID funding
In Malawi, data-driven design paves the path to health services for fishing community youth
Pact has long worked with Malawi’s fishing communities to improve their lives. Through this work, we saw a clear need for better access to family planning and reproductive health services in fishing communities, especially among adolescents and youth.
As war rages in Ukraine, women entrepreneurs find strength, hope in business
For Natalia Chukhil, sewing children’s toys has long been a way to cope amid war and instability. When Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, Chukhil was forced to leave her home in Donetsk. To take her mind off her stress, she attended a master class on making soft toys. A baby elephant...
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Leveraging data, Pact fights Covid-19, boosts vaccination in Eswatini
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, sources of accurate information were scarce. That was the case in Eswatini, where Pact-supported community case workers were already working with thousands of vulnerable families to combat HIV through the USAID-funded Insika ya Kusasa project.
Community case workers: The heart of Pact's support for children vulnerable to HIV
Although they were surviving, life was extremely difficult for Kinyamagoha and his grandmother. At 15, Kinyamagoha is HIV-positive. His grandmother can no longer walk and crawls to move around. They had little money to live on in their town in Southern Highlands, Tanzania. All they really...
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Pact’s health and social systems strengthening creates lasting change
Dr. Nandera Ernest Mhando has a big job. As Tanzania’s Commissioner for Social Welfare, she oversees efforts to protect and improve the lives of the country’s most vulnerable children. Her purview includes Tanzania’s foster care and adoption systems, juvenile justice and complex issues...
With support from Pact, communities along the Kenya-Ethiopia border work together to end raids, build peace
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 herd of camels, goats and sheep belonging to the Gabra communities of Buluk. Reliable...
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Amid Myanmar’s political unrest and blackouts, solar energy is a lifeline
In Myanmar, the idea of having electricity all day, every day is a dream for nearly everyone. As the most energy poor country in Asia, Myanmar has long suffered from an unreliable power grid, and large swathes of the country remain unconnected. However, since a political crisis in 2021,...
“We have to put in the money now”: An innovative fund in Madagascar rallies sustainable support for biodiversity
Madagascar is home to around 5% of the world’s biodiversity, but as one of the world’s poorest countries, biodiversity is under severe threat. Complex forces are at play: famine in the country’s south; deforestation and poaching; corruption and more. The Foundation for Protected Areas and...
Paving a stronger future with Tanzania's youth-led civil society organizations
Youth and Women Emancipation, or YAWE, has big goals. Founded in 2017 with a national mandate, the Tanzanian civil society organization works to build civic engagement and accountability in Tanzania, end violence against women and children, promote climate justice and improve health and...
In remote Suriname, an indigenous village fights to preserve its past, improve its future
In the far south of Suriname, in the middle of the country's virgin Amazon rainforest, is the small village of Pëlëlu Tëpu, where only 500 people belonging to the Trío indigenous people live. Among them, they usually refer to themselves as tarëno, which means “the people from here.” Like...
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