Pan American Development Foundation

Promote sustainable livelihoods: padf focuses on the relationships between people, production, and planet to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. Padf provides education and training for employability, facilitate employment and job creation, and incubate and grow entrepreneurship, all with an environmental lens. Padf promotes 21st century workforce skills, blue, green, and circular economy livelihoods, alternative energy efforts, and nature-based solutions.

Address the needs of vulnerable populations: padf strives to reduce vulnerability, address immediate needs, and strengthen coping capabilities of vulnerable populations, especially those affected by natural hazards and complex humanitarian emergencies, as well as victims of gender-based violence, at-risk youth, migrants, minorities, lgbtqi+, rural communities, and others.

Advance rights and justice: padf advances inclusive and accountable governance systems and democratic processes throughout the region, building on our knowledge and track record of working with civil society organizations, human rights defenders, journalists, community groups, public sector officials, and institutions to promote an enabling environment for inclusive and accountable governance systems and democratic processes throughout the region, building on our knowledge and track record of working with civil society organizations, human rights defenders, journalists, community groups, public sector officials, and institutions to promote an enabling environment for the protection of human rights, the rule of law, and access to justice.