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Imagine that you’re a business owner responsible for fulfilling sales and making payroll for employees who depend on their income – but you have to do it with unreliable electricity amid constant blackouts.

This is what companies in face every day, and it’s why Pact is using energy to change the game for businesses. ☀️ 💡

Our Smart Power Myanmar program has helped more than 200 businesses — sugarcane producers, furniture makers, avocado oil factories, and more — switch to cheaper, more reliable solar power. SPM supports businesses through every step in the process to install and make productive use of solar, helping them to thrive.

We work with stakeholders at all levels, including banks, solar companies, small and medium-size businesses, and development organizations. SPM’s financial guarantees enable bank lending for solar investments, and SPM is the only local issuer of International Renewable Energy Certificates, or I-REC(E)s, which represent verified renewable electricity generation. These globally recognized certificates allow renewable energy producers to make clean energy claims and monetize their solar systems, encouraging further investment in renewable energy.

With Pact’s support, businesses are overcoming the obstacle of expensive, unreliable power. We’re helping to put the tools that local communities need into their own hands so they can lead their and prosper.

Learn more 👉 www.smartpowermyanmar.com

Pact in Myanmar

Solar Energy Financing for Myanmar Businesses | Smart Power Myanmar From loan application to system installation, Smart Power Myanmar guides your businesses through the entire solar energy journey.

For services to work, they must be more than simply available. They must be truly accessible to those who need them most. This is especially true during war.

In , the Pact-led Community Action for HIV Control project focused on building services around people's lives. From self-testing and online appointments to peer counselors and deeply committed social workers, the tools our partners deployed made all the difference. The project also focused on close collaboration among civil society organizations and Ukraine's government, acting as a convener and a builder of local capacity.

All of this made it possible to identify new HIV cases, get people on treatment, and keep them healthy, even amid conflict. In the regions of Ukraine where we worked, the CAHC project accounted for about 1 in 5 new HIV case detections.

As we close out this five-year effort, we're extremely proud of the progress that Ukraine has made in its HIV response, and we can see ahead to a day when together we can . 💙 💛

Read more 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/features/building-hiv-services-around-peoples-lives-five-years-community-action-hiv-control-ukraine

U.S. Department of State Pact Ukraine: building the world of equal opportunities

Building HIV services around people's lives: Five years of Community Action for HIV Control in Ukraine Over the past five years, the Community Action for HIV Control (CAHC) project has worked alongside community organizations across Ukraine to make HIV…

ICYMI!

In our new , we reflect on a year of challenges, solutions, and .

Over the past fiscal year, Pact and our local partners overcame obstacles together. We couldn't be more inspired by their creativity, strength, and resilience.

See the report 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/library/2025-annual-report

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Each year, Pact reaches millions of people around the globe. Our programming makes lasting impact in the areas of health, governance, economic development, responsible mining, clean energy, and more.

This is just a sample of what we accomplished last year in partnership with local communities in 34 countries...

☑️ 1.4 million people supported with health services

☑️ 198,673 vulnerable children, mothers, and families supported with HIV services

☑️ 43,207 HIV-exposed infants supported with health and social services

☑️ 1,931 jobs secured in Myanmar through access to solar energy

☑️ 6,358 farmers empowered to adopt climate-smart methods in the Democratic Republic of Congo

☑️ 123 Ethiopian institutions with stronger conflict management capacity

☑️ 1.5 million people in Sri Lanka reached with civic education

☑️ 177 democratic and good governance reforms achieved in Ukraine

☑️ 9,577 grams of gemstones traded by artisanal and small-scale miners in Pact-organized Market Days

☑️ 3.1 MW of solar capacity installed

Learn more about our work at pactworld.org.

"We are inspired by the communities we partner with every day, and we have strengthened our resolve to deliver for them. Over the past year, we have found new ways to maximize both cost effectiveness and impact. We have forged new kinds of partnerships. We have expanded the ways we put into practice our long-held focus on locally led . More than ever, we have embraced Pact’s role as a vital catalyst for change and durable, community-owned results."

In our just-published , we reflect on a year of challenges, solutions, and .

See the report 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/library/2025-annual-report

As a leader in locally led , Pact builds the capacity of local organizations around the globe, empowering them to create lasting impact in their communities. Our tools help to make this change possible.

Our Capacity Solutions Platform is a flexible, web-based tool that equips organizations and their partners with the data and insights to measure, manage, and improve institutional capacity in a structured, scalable, and evidence-based way – ultimately leading to stronger systems and sustainable impact. 📈 🎯

The CSP brings capacity strengthening efforts into one system to track progress, analyze results, and reveal trends across projects, organizations, and networks.

Whether you use your own organizational capacity assessment tools or leverage Pact’s tested, evidence-based approaches, the CSP can be adapted to support your needs.

See what the CSP can do for you 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/capacity-solutions-platform

Capacity Solutions Platform Empowering development practitioners to make the best decisions possible for their programs with real-time data.

At Pact, our work goes well beyond providing and improving health care services. We focus on strengthening health systems and building local capacity so that our impact lasts long past any single project.

The Integrated Health Activity, which Pact led for the past three years, is a great example. In their own words, here is what our local partners had to say about the project's impact...

📣 “Zambia Integrated Health has helped with staff shortages, especially in ART [antiretroviral therapy], training of community-based volunteers, testing, tracking, integration, and more. They [Zambia Integrated Health staff] look at service delivery and records and give guidance and training on gaps. We look at this once a month at our facility.” -Christine Matulula, Ministry of Health staff in charge of Epafu Rural Health Center in Chingola District, Copperbelt Province

📣 “I’m proud of the capacity we’ve built and the strong partnership we’ve had with the government. This project has been unique because it has gone beyond services alone to strengthen how care is delivered for whole communities.” -Zizwa Phiri, ZIH District Hub Coordinator

Thank you U.S. Department of State for funding this work!

Learn more about our impact 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/features/improving-health-outcomes-zambians-through-integrated-client-centered-care-and

U.S. Department of State U.S. Embassy Zambia

Improving health outcomes for Zambians through integrated, client-centered care and strengthened local capacity It is a bright, sunny day in Solwezi, a town in the northwestern part of Zambia. Health care workers and clients mill about Muzabula Clinic, a local health…

Since 2016, Pact has worked to improve the lives of artisanal miners in East Africa, mostly women working to support their families through this difficult occupation. We began in partnership with GIA (Gemological Institute of America), offering basic tools and training to help miners understand how to value and make more for their gemstones. 💎 ⛏️

A decade later, Moyo Gems has grown into a robust social and economic program that is truly transforming lives, empowering miners in Tanzania, Kenya, and beyond to earn much more for their gems, directly access international markets, and mine in ways that are safer, more efficient, and environmentally responsible.

It wouldn't be possible without our partners and donors, including ANZA Gems, Nineteen48, Maison Piat, A Beautiful Story, World Bank, Brilliant Earth, SCS Global, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, and more.

Miners themselves have also played a crucial role, guiding and supporting Moyo Gems through the Association of Women in Energy in Kenya and the Tanzania Women Miners Association.

Learn more about Moyo Gems' evolution and impact, and hear directly from participating miners 👉 https://www.pactworld.org/features/tanzania-kenya-and-beyond-pact-and-partners-build-responsible-gemstone-supply-chains



Brilliant Earth ANZA Gems Pact Tanzania Nineteen48

In Tanzania, Kenya, and beyond, Pact and partners build responsible gemstone supply chains For Salma Juma Mdoe, making a living was never easy. For years, her main source of income has been gemstone mining in Tanzania’s Umba Valley, a gem-rich…