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Pact's Ahlin Yaung brings clean, reliable energy to 100,000+ in rural Myanmar

Since March 2015, with financial support from Chevron, Shell and ABB, Pact has worked to improve access to renewable energy for families in Myanmar’s Dry Zone region. In response to energy...
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Spotlight on Pact's social enterprise lead

This post originally appeared on the Vanderbilt Turner Family Center for Social Ventures’ website and has been cross-posted with permission. Vanderbilt's Turner Family Center for Social...
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With vocational training, a beautiful new future in Nepal

Most days, Subhadra Rokka opens her beauty shop early and closes late. She’ll probably scale back her hours eventually – few customers show up past late afternoon – but for now, she...
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Using data to tell the artisanal and small-scale mining story

This post originally appeared on the World Bank website and has been cross-posted with permission. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) provides a critical livelihood for millions of...
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For a dedicated mother in Vietnam, entrepreneurship is the key to success

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...
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5 lessons from a conversation with USAID’s chief of design innovation

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...
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3 lessons from my seat at the impact investing table

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,...
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The evolution of development: How people from across the Mekong Region are mapping their collective future

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...
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WORTH’s Global Impact: Empowering Women from Africa to Asia

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...
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Putting our hands up to eliminate the scourge of HIV

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...
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