Pham Ngoc Yen’s life was already difficult before her third child came into the world. She and her husband made little income in their village in the Tam Binh district of Vinh Long. As it...
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...
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,...
The two-year journey began with a bold vision. At the end of 2014, at a regional forum in Thailand, the USAID-supported Mekong Partnership for the Environment project (MPE) laid out a...
Twenty years after Pact started its first WORTH group in Nepal, the community banking and empowerment model has transformed the lives of more than 550,000 rural women. Learn more at...
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...
Tucked away in dusty red hills at the Vietnam border, a few dozen wooden longhouses form Peak Village, a community that has little in common with the rest of Cambodia, much less the...
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...
The IDH Tin Working Group has commissioned Pact, an international nonprofit headquartered in Washington, D.C., to assess the occupational health and safety risks for unconventional...
There is an excited buzz in the air as more than 50 women, some with young children in tow, gather in an open field outside a school in Tanzania’s Kituntu ward. The women are dressed in...