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...
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...
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...
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...
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...