A selection of work spanning youth empowerment, digital inclusion, workforce development, outcomes-based financing, and systems change — across governments, NGOs, multilaterals, and the private sector.
Junior Achievement Worldwide is one of the world's leading youth-facing organizations, equipping millions of students across over 100 countries with entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy, and workforce development. After helping define JA's ambitious global strategy in 2022, Prat has continued advising JA on their most strategic initiatives — including defining JA's global approach to credentialing, leveraging GenAI to accelerate impact measurement and reporting, facilitating strategic planning processes across JA regions and member nations, and leading global leadership summits to foster a cohesive, high-performing team.
UNICEF is the world's leading voice for the protection and empowerment of children. Following the global community's failure to protect children from the harms of social media, UNICEF recognized the need for a more proactive, principled stance on AI. Prat supported UNICEF in crafting a global framework for how the organization would approach advocacy for children in the age of AI — positioning UNICEF as the definitive champion for children's rights and safety in an increasingly automated world.
Gap Inc., Business for Social Responsibility, Care International, and the International Labour Organization had come together to coordinate women's empowerment programming in garment factories around the world. Each organization had its own training program and needed help aligning delivery and business models to maximize collective impact. Prat and his team helped these organizations align on an innovative path forward — creating RISE as a new entity with its own operating model. The creation of RISE has driven massive scaling of impact, far exceeding what each organization could have achieved independently.
A large global payment company recognized that its business growth was linked to bringing unbanked and underbanked consumers into the digital economy. To do so, it needed a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by low and middle-income populations and how digital payment technologies could meaningfully improve their lives. Prat and his team mapped the challenges these consumers face in accessing education, healthcare, energy, and agricultural markets — and proposed innovations and partnerships to help the company create real, lasting value for underserved communities around the world.
A large international NGO identified a critical need to improve girls' education outcomes in Sierra Leone. Prat and his team helped the NGO design a new initiative that leverages innovative financing models, direct cash transfers, and linkages to education data infrastructure to automate the release of financing tied directly to education outcomes. The program — currently in its second year — has already demonstrated significant potential for improving outcomes for girls and their communities.
Africa faces a massive health worker shortage. Community Health Workers (CHWs) help bridge this gap — but training CHWs is costly, retention is low, and incentives are limited. Prat and his team helped Amref Health Africa, Safaricom, and the Kenya Ministry of Health launch Leap: a first-of-its-kind mobile learning solution designed to improve the learning outcomes of CHWs and, in turn, the health outcomes of the communities they serve. After a decade of data collection, the results are clear — Leap has saved lives by empowering hundreds of thousands of CHWs across Kenya.
UNHCR recognized that in the digital age, connectivity and digital inclusion had become a basic need for the world's 100M+ refugees — not just food, water, and shelter. Prat and his team conducted an expansive analysis and visited dozens of refugee sites to understand how refugees were systematically excluded from the digital world, resulting in a widening opportunity gap and limited access to meaningful livelihoods. This analysis informed UNHCR's first-ever Global Connectivity for Refugees strategy — building partnerships with public sector, private sector, and civil society actors globally and locally to improve the availability, affordability, and usability of digital infrastructure.
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