• Completed thousands of small infrastructure economic benefits for local communities. In collaboration with its partners AKDN: projects, including 2,249 irrigation channels and • In Lahore, AKTC projects have raised awareness 634 kilometres of roads linking to markets. about the long-term benefits of heritage • Installed 435 mini-hydroelectric projects that preservation. The rehabilitation of Gali Surjan provide electricity to 60,580 households. Singh (comprising 23 houses) along with the • Completed 1167 communication projects restoration of the 17th century Shahi Hammam benefiting 74,439 households. and Chowk Wazir Khan are exemplars of best practices in urban regeneration through cultural 39 million 2.3 million 36,000 Water and Sanitation conservation projects. On 4 May 2019, Prime Minister Imran Khan attended the inaugural Has planted Delivers quality health care to Has trained +36,000 educators AKAH also has decades of experience in ensuring ceremony in Lahore of the Picture Wall’s western +39 million trees 2.3 million patients annually across the country adequate and safe access to basic services, section and the Imperial Kitchens. particularly water, sanitation and hygiene services Continued from page 2 that meet the World Health Organization standards Economic Development and Tourism Promotion provide +35,000 students annually aged • The Community Based Disaster Risk Management, – to remote areas with weak public service 0-8 years (59% girls) with quality learning which aims to equip communities with the infrastructure and a high incidence of poverty. It In Pakistan, economic development projects opportunities. Through its education improvement knowledge, skills and capacities to become the also provides quality construction services to public range from tourism promotion to financial service programme, AKF has supported the establishment first local responders, has trained +40,000 and private institutions to establish a precedence companies under the Aga Khan Fund for Economic of 650 community and school libraries, benefitting volunteers and organised them into 172 for quality engineering and architectural practices, Development (AKFED) umbrella. Many of these 25,000 children and 16,500 parents. It has also Community Emergency Response Teams whilst also contributing by improving safe and institutions began as local entities but have grown trained +2,160 community facilitators, parents (CERTs), which are active in risk-prone villages sustained access to education and health facilities. into major national and international institutions. and teachers to support reading at home. across - and Chitral. Half of these volunteers are women. Across Gilgit-Baltistan and Heritage Preservation • HBL provides banking services to +15 million Health Care Chitral, 184 community stockpiles are set up for Pakistanis through a country-wide network of emergency humanitarian relief and response. Over the past three decades, AKTC’s conservation nearly 1,700 branches, 2,100 ATMs, 48,000 AKDN also has a broad impact on healthcare • Search and Rescue Teams (SARTs), which projects in Pakistan have sought to leverage the branchless banking agents and nearly 23,000 delivery in Pakistan, both through its education of prepare hazard, vulnerability and risk assessment transformative power of culture to economic Point of Sale (POS) terminals. doctors, nurses and midwives and its direct delivery (HVRA) maps. In response to the ever-increasing conditions in Pakistan. In the process, it has • The First MicroFinanceBank (now majority-owned of healthcare services and diagnostic testing: impact of climate change, it is also involved in received 15 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards. by HBL) has provided US$ 750 million in loans addressing environmental sustainability issues, the AKTC’s key achievements comprise of: to more than 3 million customers since 2002, • The graduates of AKU's School of Nursing and safety of physical settings and preparation. mostly from rural areas. To tap a greater market Midwifery, Pakistan's first university-affiliated • A Building and Construction Improvement • Restoration of cultural sites and historic share while ensuring that the financial needs of nursing school, include+4,300 nurses and Programme (BACIP) that has benefited low monuments in collaboration with local the vulnerable are met adequately, the Bank has SOCIAL midwives known for their skills and leadership. income communities with access to 100,000 communities in rural and urban areas. In Baltistan, begun to offer digital financial services. • AKU Medical College's+6,400 graduates provide energy-efficient products, including customised profits from Fort and are • AKFED runs 8 Serena hotels in Pakistan in CULTURAL high-quality health care and clinical services. technologies that improve seismic resistance. used to maintain and repair historic structures, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Quetta, Gilgit and Shigar. • AKU's Hospital, Pakistan's leading tertiary promote education and train adults. The hotels aim to promote tourism and economic ECONOMIC hospital, which was inaugurated in 1985, handles Agriculture, Food Security and Energy • In 2018, , , and development in the areas in which they are built. 1.4 million clinical visits and 97,000 admissions Khaplu Palace received a total of 117,500 • Serena Hotels initiated a Guest House annually. Every year the Hospital conducts 30,000 The AKDN has been addressing agriculture and visitors, reflecting an increase of 8% from the Management Training Programme benefiting 10 surgeries, delivers 19,700 babies and carries out food security issues in Pakistan since 1982 through previous year. Increasing tourist numbers provide entrepreneurs from priority valleys. 12.2 million diagnostic tests. It has been certified its pioneering rural development programme, the by the Joint Commission International and College Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP). The • of American Pathologists, two prestigious bodies. programme has been widely hailed as a model for • AKU and the Aga Khan Health Services together development, winning a number of international Development partners For more information operate 450 health centres, hospitals, maternity Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Government of Punjab, Walled City Aga Khan Foundation (Pakistan) awards, including the Global Development Award of Lahore Authority, Directorate General of Archeology, Punjab Dept Level Nine, Serena Business Complex homes, medical centres and dental units that for Most Innovative Development Project and an of Tourism, Royal Norwegian Embassy, US Ambassadors Fund Khayaban-e-Suhrawardy reach +2.3 million people throughout the country. Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy. Amongst its for Cultural Preservation, German Foreign Office, Swiss Agency Islamabad, Pakistan for Development Cooperation, Japanese Grass Roots Assistance Tel: +92 51 111 253 254 • In AKDN programme areas, the infant mortality accomplishments, it has: Program, Italian Foreign Ministry, International Union for Conservation Email: [email protected] rate has dropped significantly to 40/1,000 live of Nature, USAID, UNESCO, World Bank, World Monuments Fund, Website: www.akdn.org/pakistan New Zealand Consulate, DFID, Government of Sind, EU, GAC, Khyber births compared to the national average of • Mobilised 5,294 Village and Women Pakhtunkwha Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Gilgit 300/100,000. Organisations in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral Baltistan Disaster Management Authority, International Organization © AKDN, September 2019. Information contained in this brief can be for Migration, World Food Program, International Center for Integrated reproduced with acknowledgement to AKDN. Photo credits: AKDN / Kohi alone, using its innovative community-led Mountain Development, AFD Marri, Mathieu Paley, Naeem Safi, Danial Shah Humanitarian Assistance & Disaster Risk Reduction approach to establish local organisations. • Planted +39 million trees for fuelwood, fodder The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) has been and construction. Cover page: (top left to right) AKU School of Nursing and Midwifery in Karachi, Sindh; Shimshal, in the north of Pakistan; Altit responding to natural disasters in Pakistan since • Reclaimed over 267,050 hectares of degraded Fort, in Gilgit-Baltistan; (middle left to right) carpentry training in Lahore, Punjab; Social, Cultural, Economic (areas of AKDN www.akdn.org 1998. Its programmes include: land and developed 132,142 new land. involvement); education for girls; (bottom left to right) safe drinking water; infant health care; employability training for youth.

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