PACT International

Pact is one of the prominent pioneers of non-formal education in Ethiopia and since 1998 has established over 1,000 Alternative Basic Education Centers, thereby reaching and enrolling over 214,000 out of school children (OOSC) throughout the nation. All of Pact’s programming for alternative basic education targets the most marginalized areas of the country including pastoral, food insecure, conflict-prone districts where access to education remains a major challenge. Pact has extensive experience working with children and communities in collaboration with its local partner NGOs, using flexible and innovative models to make education accessible.

Founded in 1971, Pact is a non-profit organization with its headquarters in the Washington, D.C that currently operates offices in more than 20 countries in Asia, Eurasia, and Africa.

Pact envisions a world where those who are poor and marginalized exercise their voice, build their own solutions, and take ownership of their future. By strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development, Pact works to enable systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to live dignified, healthy, lives. Pact believes that effective stewardship leads to trust and that trust is the foundation for change. 
Pact operates from three core values: Local Solutions; Partnerships; and Results.

EAC has partnered with Pact in Ethiopia to implement the Reaching Educational Attainments of Children in the Hinterlands (REACH) project. REACH is a one-year initiative that uses flexible and innovative models to expand opportunities to the most marginalized and hardest to reach children and families and help them access and complete education in Ethiopia. REACH will identify and enrol 15,120 children in 27 districts (woredas) across Ethiopia.

For more information about this EAC Implementing Partner, please visit their website.