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...
Peter Acia’s eyes, once angry and vacant, now carry youthful hope. Conversations with the 31-year-old reformed warrior used to be one-sided. Now he asks questions. He wants to understand. ...
One of Pact’s core values is local solutions. In short, this means we believe that true success can only come from solutions created in partnership with the people we serve. It’s why...
This week, Pact and Qualcomm Incorporated expand our collaboration to tackle critical issues facing mining communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The additional support from...
Pact recently received a new award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to transform the lives of vulnerable Tanzanian children and young people, particularly those...
If it wasn’t one thing keeping U Myint Shwe’s crops from growing, it was another. A small subsistence farmer in western Myanmar’s Seikphyu township, he owned an acre of land where he...
Like many nonprofits around the world, Pact buzzed with excitement around the release of the MacArthur 100&Change competition in the spring of 2016. The MacArthur Foundation was offering...