International Research Initiative with collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation, Pakistan

This is one of a series of Working Papers being produced by the Social Policy and Development Centre (SPDC) as part of an international research initiative -the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project pearheaded by the Centre for Civil Society Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA. In Pakistan, this study is being undertaken by SPDC in [...]

USAID Finances Malaria Prevention Programme

Maputo — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged to grant 1.48 million US dollars to be used in programmes to prevent and control malaria in nine districts of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado. This sum is part of 10.5 million US dollars to finance similar programmes being developed in [...]

Aga Khan Foundation USA to hold fundraiser to fight poverty Saturday at Veterans Park in Hoover

The Aga Khan Foundation USA aims to raise money to fight global poverty Saturday with Partnership Walk, a day of live music, interactive exhibits, multicultural performances and a 30-minute fundraising walk through Hoover’s Veterans Park.
Visitors can tour VillageInAction, a series of exhibits detailing aspects of life in impoverished regions, such as agricultural practices in Bangladesh and [...]

Aga Khan Foundation may hike DCB stake

The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (EKFEB), which is the single largest shareholder and holds 49 per cent of Development Credit Bank Ltd equity, is looking at hiking its stake in DCB, post the Government of India notification that the FDI in Indian banks can go up to 74 per cent. “The board meeting [...]

Hewlett Foundation Announces $2.1 Million grant to Aga Khan Foundation, USA

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $154 million to 287 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the globe.
In the area of global development, the foundation awarded $27.8 million to thirty-seven organizations, including $2.1 million to the Aga Khan Foundation USA to launch model programs for teaching [...]

AKF: Women in Agriculture in South Asia

IFPRI & Aga Khan Foundation was condected a workhop from August 12 to 14, 2009 in New Delhi India, for reognising the status of women in the field of Agriculture.
The Abstract of the workshop
Throughout the South Asian region, women account for about 39 percent of the agricultural workforce, working as managers of land to agricultural [...]

Aga Khan Foundation: Rice Intensification in Afghanistan

AKF: Roshan announces Telemedicine in Afghanistan

Roshan the leading telecom operator in Afghanistan announced that telemedicine is expanding beyond Kabul to include provincial hospitals. Bamyan Provincial Hospital (BPH) will be the first provincial medical facility linked to the telemedicine project to use broadband technology, wireless video conferencing, and digital imaging transfer.
Roshan has teamed with Cisco, the Afghanistan government, Aga Khan University [...]

AKF:EU funds six new grant projects in support of health, agriculture and rural development

DUSHANBE: In the framework of bilateral assistance to Tajikistan the European Commission will finance six new projects in the fields of health, agriculture and rural development in the amount of around EUR 3.5 million under the programme “Enhancing individual incomes and improving living standards in Khatlon and Sughd Regions, Tajikistan”. The programme specifically aims to [...]

20 Social Welfare Associations Join !

RAWALPINDI: Some 20 social and welfare organisations have announced to join the “Pukaar Alliance” working under the aegis of Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Foundation (MKRF) to help alleviate the sufferings of more than three million IDPs in the NWFP.  The announcement came in a programme arranged by the MKRF where these organisations expressed pledges to do their [...]

Madras centres may be fully accredited schools

Madrasa centres may in future become fully accredited schools, Zanzibar’s deputy chief minister Ali Juma Shamuhuna said yesterday.
He was speaking during the launch in Dar es Salaam of a book on the 25 years experience of the madrasa programme in the country. Mr Shamuhuna represented Zanzibar president Amani Abeid Karume at the function organised by [...]

Aga Khan Foundation Poverty Awareness Dinner

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AKF: Education Activities in Tajikistan

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AKF: Engineering Projects in Pamir worth over $711 thousand

The “Mountain Societies development Support Programme” (MSDSP) launched by Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in Gorno Badakhshan in 2008, implemented projects worth over $711 thousand.
Last year 16 projects in school reconstruction and renovation worth $275 thousand, and 28 projects in provision of fresh and irrigation water to villages worth $ 423 thousand were implemented, informed Mirzo [...]

AKF: Programme Director Rural Development, Kabul, Asia, 25000, Afghanistan

Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private international, nonprofit, and non-denominational development agency. It seeks sustainable solutions to long term problems of poverty, with special emphasis on the needs of rural communities in mountainous, coastal and other resource poor areas across the world. Concentrating its efforts in health, education, rural development and strengthening civil society [...]

Microsoft & Aga Khan Foundation to collaborate to help underserved communities in Africa & Asia

 At Microsoft HQ, Michael Rawding, vice president of the Unlimited Potential Group at Microsoft, and Iqbal Noor Ali, CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A., signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in the development of innovative technology solutions and human resource capacity through education, health, civil society, financial services, rural livelihoods and economic development [...]

Aga Khan Foundation commemorative Stamps