An organisation born from the field, that works with territories and builds solutions.
PACTE — Prospective and Concerted Actions for Emerging Territories — is a Senegalese development organisation founded in Ziguinchor in 1996. It has its roots in an urban social development initiative carried out in Ziguinchor by the French NGO Sauvegarde du Nord, whose expertise had been mobilised by AFVP, today France Volontaires, with the support of the Caisse Française de Développement, now AFD.
This initiative, first carried out in four neighbourhoods and then progressively extended, made it possible to test new approaches to community participation, community development and local governance. Once the programme ended and Sauvegarde du Nord withdrew, former staff and partners wanted to preserve and carry forward what had been achieved. PACTE was created out of that dynamic.
Since then, PACTE has supported territories and their actors in researching, testing and building solutions suited to development challenges, favouring participation, dialogue, capacity building, innovation, learning and capitalisation.
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