A Catalyst for New Music – Asia ReMix

What do nineteen musicians hailing from eight countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Eurasia have in common? That was the question that participants in Remix Asia strove to answer during an intensive, fortnight-long workshop and concert tour that ended in Aleppo, Syria on October 18.
The participants included sixteen young composer-performers and three [...]

Building Disaster-Resilient Communities in Afghanistan

Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) Afghanistan is currently implementing a Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). The CBDRR project seeks to increase awareness and disaster-resilience in highly vulnerable communities by strengthening local capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and [...]

AKDN’s Post-Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction Efforts in Kashmir

The South Asian earthquake of October 2005 devastated large parts of Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control (LOC) as well as significant parts of the North West Frontier province in Pakistan. The death toll in Pakistan was around 73,000 (almost 30,000 children) with another 70,000 severely injured or disabled and 4 million [...]

Aga Khan Development Network at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a major sponsor of the Governors’ Global Climate Summit, being held 30 September 30 – 2 October 2009 in Los Angeles.
The objectives of the conference are to “deepen and broaden cooperative efforts by sub-national governments to implement strategies that can immediately grow a green economy, increase the use of [...]

Learning Is an SMS Away: Mobile Phones in Education

Penina Onyango, Head Teacher at Kawino Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, no longer awaits the arrival of Brown Onguko – her course facilitator at AKU’s Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED, EA) – from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to help resolve her teaching challenges. Instead, she has a much better bargain: she can communicate [...]

Osh mayor’s office and Aga Khan Development Network intend to cooperate more closely

KABAR, July 8. Osh mayor’s office and Aga Khan Development Network intends to cooperate more closely. The city’s mayor Melisbek Myrzakmatov expressed his intention during a meeting with representatives of the AKDN. “Your support is very important for us. We hope for further cooperation”, – said .Myrzakmatov. The mayor pointed out the importance of educational [...]

UCA’s School of Professional and Continuing Education Teaches Critical Skills for Central Asia Economies

In June, students at the University of Central Asia’s (UCA) School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPCE), Central Asia’s first provider of formal, university-based, non-degree educational programmes, received certificates and awards for a number of disciplines, including accounting, mountain guiding and the teaching of English.  The ceremonies in Dushanbe and Khorog also marked several milestones. [...]

Andhra Pradesh Relief to Development Projects

The devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck South and South East Asia and East Africa on December 26, 2004 was a disaster on a global scale. Claiming close to 200,000 lives, the tsunami’s toll on the populations of coastal areas was incalculable, wiping out homes, livelihoods and infrastructure.
In the wake of the tsunami, Canadians rallied [...]

Afghanistan: Making Local Governance More Transparent

Social Audits in Afghanistan: Making Local Governance More Transparent
 
People began gathering in mid-morning after the men and women had finished their early morning chores. The entire village of Kalan Guzar turned out for the meeting which was held in a big compound next to the school and the clinic. The men and boys, wearing woollen [...]

Partnership Between AKU and University of Alberta

8 June, 2009, Edmonton, Canada – His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), will receive an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Alberta on June 9th in recognition of his efforts to improve the lives of millions of [...]

Social development in Mozambique

AKDN activities are concentrated in Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, where the rural population depends mostly on farming and fishing for survival. In most areas of the province families produce enough to survive and little more. Rural villages are not only isolated from markets, but also from education and health services. One in four [...]

Exhibition from Aga Khan Museum Collection

Exhibition from Aga Khan Museum Collection Inaugurated by King of Spain and Aga Khan in Madrid
Madrid, 4 June 2009 – His Majesty the King, His Highness the Aga Khan, the Honorary President of “la Caixa” and First Vice-President of “la Caixa”, Ricardo Fornesa, today inaugurated the exhibition “The Islamic Worlds in the Aga Khan Museum Collection” at CaixaForum [...]

Prince Rahim Aga Khan arrives in Tajikistan on a three-day working visit

DUSHANBE, June 1, 2009, Asia-Plus  — Prince Rahim Aga Khan, first son of His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam  (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, is arriving in Tajikistan tomorrow on a three-working visit, the MFA information department reported.
During his stay in Tajikistan, Prince Rahim will review programs of the Aga Khan Development [...]

Aga Khan granted the distinction of “Grand Mécène” and “Grand Donateur” by the French Ministry of Culture

May 28th 2009, Paris – France’s Minister for Culture, Christine Albanel, honoured the Aga Khan with the titles of  Grand Patron  (Grand Mécène)  and Grand Donor (Grand Donateur) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural development in France through the Foundation for the Preservation and Development of the Chantilly Domain (Fondation pour la sauvegarde et [...]

Aga Khan In Berlin – Photographs

  
    

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Aga Khan in Berlin..

His Highness the Aga Khan arrived in Berlin yesterday for a two-day official visit to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul.
The meetings focused on the expansion of activities since the signing of an agreement in 2004 between the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the German Federal [...]

AKDN: Tajikistan relies on Aga Khan Development Network in social programs implementation

Tajikistan is counting on support of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in implementation of social program to support poor families and vulnerable population. Last Wednesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Hamrokhon Zarifi met with the Permanent Representative of AKDN in Tajikistan Munir Merali, reported the Information Department of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Foreign [...]

AKDN: Multi-Input Area Development

For years, development institutions focused on narrowly defined goals – without much coordination with organisations outside their discipline. Many thought that rising incomes would lead to development. In AKDN’s experience, however, income disparity is only one aspect of poverty. Other forms can be just as damaging: a lack of access to quality education, the inability to mitigate [...]

AKDN: Working towards holistic community development

“Aga Khan Development Network project committed to enhancing quality of life “
-Madhur Tankha -
NEW DELHI: The Aga Khan Development Network project is working with the locals living around the Hazrat Nizamuddin basti- Humayun Tomb-Sundar Nursery area to enhance their quality of life.
The Network is a group of private, non-denominational, international development agencies created by the [...]

Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Global Philanthropy Forum

President Jane Wales, thank you for those very generous comments.
I’d like to say how happy I am to share in this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum.
Participants,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a special pleasure for me to be with you tonight, for I look upon you as particularly serious and informed partners in the work of global understanding [...]

ChilD: Investing in Early Childhood Development

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Worldwide 200 million children under five years of age are not achieving their development potential due to poverty, poor health and nutrition, and lack of stimulation and learning opportunities. The vast majority of these children are from disadvantaged households and communities in low-income countries.
Early childhood lays critical foundations for a person’s entire life [...]

Agreements Reduce Natural Disaster Risk in Tajikistan

Tajikistan, 9 April 2009 – Every year communities in the mountainous regions of Tajikistan are subject to natural hazards such as landslides and debris flows. In an effort to reduce the resulting risk run by those communities, the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Tajikistan and Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) signed an agreement to [...]

AKDN: Education Minister met with head of AKDN Representation in Kyrgyzstan

KABAR, March 19. Minister Abdylda Musaev received the head of Aga Khan Development Network Representation in Kyrgyzstan Nurjehan Mavani. The press service of the Ministry of Education and Science reports. At the meeting N. Mavani told about construction projects of the University of Central Asia in Naryn, program of vocational education and the Aga Khan [...]

Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan wins 2 more International Awards

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AKDN Careers: New Vacancies

 
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His Highness the Aga Khan Meets with Singapore Foreign Minister

Paris, 18 January 2009  – His Highness the Aga Khan on Sunday hosted a lunch in Paris for Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, George Yeo. During the lunch, the Aga Khan announced his decision to establish an Ismaili Centre and regional representative office of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Singapore.
Minister Yeo warmly welcomed this decision and [...]

MFB-Pakistan and FMFB-Tajikistan Among Top-100 MFIs in 2008 MIX Global 100 Rankings

Geneva, 27 December 2008 – The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance was pleased to note that two of its institutions, First MicroFinanceBank-Pakistan (FMFB-Pakistan) and First MicroFinanceBank-Tajikistan (FMFB-Tajikistan), were ranked among the top-100 microfinance institutions by the Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX), the microfinance industry’s leading source of information.

FMFB-Pakistan’s performance was particularly strong, ranking 7th overall. The [...]

Aga Khan Development Network Career Resource Centre

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Education Spotlight: “Jailoo” Kindergartens in the Kyrgyz Republic

When the Aga Khan Foundation learned that many rural Kyrgyz children were missing out on kindergarten during the annual migration to the “jailoo”, or high pastures, for four to five months a year, it supported a programme to bring early childhood education to the mountains.

The summer migration to the jailoo follows a tradition that dates [...]

A profile of the Azito Energie project in West Africa: Meeting Côte d’Ivoire’s energy needs through private sector investment

Because the developing world needs more electricity, telephones, clean water and transport, governments are encouraging the private sector to take a role in providing these basic services. AKFED is responding to the challenge by creating infrastructure projects in telecommunications, water and sewerage and power generation. The Azito project is AKFED’s first investment in the power [...]