In 1995 USAID invited Pact to join Natural Resource Management Project to work with community-based organizations (CBOs) throughout Botswana to empower communities to manage community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects and equitably reinvest revenues earned from CBNRM activities for the benefit of the respective communities.

Under the project Pact assisted CBOs to form legal trusts and develop natural resource management plans as well as directly, or through provision of subgrants, provided them with an array of managerial skills focusing on (1) broadly based, dynamic community participation, (2) effective project and financial management, and (3) a sound understanding of natural resources management practices.

Pact worked within the framework of two emerging sustainable community-based natural resource management models. In the first model, communities subleased wildlife quotas to hunting and photographic safari enterprises, and in the second, communities established businesses based on harvesting, processing and sale of veld products previously used mainly for consumption or sold at prices far below true market value. Revenues from these activities financed community projects, increased family income and improved the quality of life in rural areas. In 2000 Pact's work in Botswana concluded.

In 2005 USAID's Regional HIV/AIDS program for Southern Africa (RHAP) invited Pact to expand the United State Government's (USG) response to HIV/AIDS by engaging civil society in Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. Under RHAP Pact is assisting Botswana achieve the five-year PEPFAR strategy of generating local support and participation in HIV/AIDS response by focusing on strengthening community capacities to deliver HIV/AIDS related services, combating stigma and discrimination and creating an enabling environment to develop and sustain a local response.

Pact provides assistance to improve community-based prevention, care and support services in collaboration with people living positively with HIV, civil society, faith-based institutions as well as training to strengthen local level participation, management and leadership.