About Us – Penta Foundation

OUR MISSION

Develop community capacity to improve their life quality by increasing their access to basic need through strengthening partnership with stakeholders, provide reliable supporting data through credible research, and utilizing Information and Communication Technology to accelerate the process of achieving better access efficiently

WHAT WE DO

Training and Consultancy

Why focus on capacity development?
Increased interest in capacity development in recent years is a response to widely acknowledged shortcomings in development assistance over the
past fifty years. Capacity approaches are suitable based on developing country ownership and focused more clearly on sustainable results.
Why Access Becomes Important?
Access to information, education, health facilities, market, finance, to mention some, are still a barrier for our citizen in improving their welfare. PENTA
concern on access improvement as one of key step in improving community capacity by empowered them with skills and tools to increase the access.

Research

Action without sufficient data and information can be misleading and waste in effort and cost. With
this principle we design and conduct research to get more insight before taking any action. Supported
by experts in their fields, PENTA will help partners from sufficient researches towards the socio-
economic condition to developing effective community development interventions.

ICT4D

Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) refers to the application of information and
communication technologies (ICT) toward social, economic, and political development, with a particular emphasis on
helping poor and marginalized people and communities.
At PENTA, we help customer design and build software or application to facilitate the capacity development effort and in
building easier access to information for public. Utilizing recent ICT trend, we make data collection, data process, data
analysis and data presentation in community development interventions becoming much more easy and powerful.

HOW WE DO IT

At PENTA, we appreciate the power of data. Before taking action, we hear your problems to understand the needs, doing research to get supporting data, and to solve it. PENTA works with our network that has experience in their respective fields.