Overview of the AKDN and Its Agencies

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Tourism Promotion Industrial Promotion Aga Khan Education Services Aga Khan Award Aga Khan Historic The Aga Khan Development Network the faith, origin or gender of the people prospects for improving the lives of Services Services for Architecture Cities Programme (AKDN) is a group of private, international, they serve. people in the developing world than Aga Khan Health Services non-denominational agencies working to on bottom-line profitability. AKFED improve living conditions and opportunities takes bold but calculated steps to Financial Services Media Services Aga Khan Planning and Aga Khan Music Initiative Museums Economic Development Building Services for people in some of the poorest parts of invest in environments that are fragile Aviation Services the developing world. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic and complex. It has assisted in the Aga Khan Academies Development (AKFED) works to rehabilitation of economies after civil Focus Humanitarian Assistance The Network’s organizations have strengthen the role of the private sector conflict or internal turmoil in environments individual mandates that range from in developing countries by promoting as varied as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the fields of health and education to entrepreneurial activity and supporting Mozambique, Tajikistan and Uganda. architecture, rural development and the private-sector initiatives. AKFED also Although its project companies operate promotion of private-sector enterprise. plays a catalytic role in mobilizing on a commercial model, all profits are For further information: Together AKDN’s institutions and investment in developing or transitional reinvested in further development. Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA) programs work towards a common goal economies. It makes investments in 1825 K Street NW, Suite 901 – to build a civil society that responds to industrial production, infrastructure, Washington, DC Social Development United States the challenges of social, economic and tourism development, financial services, Tel: 202 293 2537 cultural change. aviation and media. It promotes the The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) seeks Fax: 202 785 1752 creation of the enabling legal and fiscal sustainable solutions to the long-term E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.akdn.org/usa | www.akfusa.org The Network brings together a number of structures that ensure the viability of problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy agencies, institutions and programs that private-sector initiatives. and ill health throughout the world, with have been built up over the past 50 years special emphasis on the needs of rural and, in some cases, date back to the Because of its institutional background communities in mountainous, coastal early twentieth century. AKDN agencies and ethical framework, investment and other resource-poor areas. AKF conduct their programs without regard to decisions are based more on the focuses on development in rural areas,

AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK www.akdn.org Tekeli, Kazakhstan; and Naryn, Kyrgyz conservation and socio-economic In addition to operating over 200 Republic, it will offer a Master of Arts components to bear on development schools, the Aga Khan Development degree within the School of Development issues in urban and rural settings. Network supports education activities and a Bachelor of Arts program based on the liberal arts and sciences. • The Aga Khan Music Initiative, which in more than 5,600 schools, ranging works to ensure the preservation and from pre-primary through university The School of Professional and development of traditional musical post-graduate courses. Girls, the Continuing Education, which has heritage and the music’s transmission very poor and geographically remote engaged over 30,000 course participants to new artists and audiences. populations receive special attention. since 2006, is Central Asia’s first provider of formal, university-based, non-degree • Other cultural initiatives such as educational programs, offering vocational the Aga Khan Program for Islamic “Development is sustainable only if and professional development and Architecture at Harvard University personal improvement opportunities to and the Massachusetts Institute of the beneficiaries become, in a gradual health, education, environment, and the a curriculum based on the International youth and adults. Technology; ArchNet.org, a virtual manner, the masters of the process. strengthening of civil society. Its programs Baccalaureate, a special emphasis on archive of materials on architecture, This means that initiatives cannot be include the Aga Khan Rural Support the humanities, and a robust system urban design and development; and contemplated exclusively in terms of The Aga Khan Development Network Programmes in India and Pakistan, of international student and teacher Culture the Museums Program, encompassing the Mountain Societies Development exchanges. Admission is merit-based and economics, but rather as an integrated has agreements or protocols with the The Network’s initiatives in culture, the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Support Programmes in Tajikistan and the needs-blind. program that encompasses social and following countries and organizations: architecture, architectural education, Kyrgyz Republic, and the Coastal Rural cultural dimensions as well. Education Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Canada, the urban revitalization and traditional music Support Programmes in Tanzania and The Aga Khan Health Services Long-Term Commitment and skills training, health and public East African Community, the European are the responsibility of the Aga Khan Mozambique. (AKHS), with over 200 health centers, Trust for Culture (AKTC). AKDN agencies make a long-term services, conservation of cultural Commission, France, Germany, India, dispensaries, hospitals, diagnostic commitment to the areas in which they heritage, infrastructure development, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kenya, the The Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance facilities and community health The Trust focuses on culture as a means work. They are guided by the philosophy urban planning and rehabilitation, (AKAM) seeks to alleviate economic and outlets, is one of the largest and most Kyrgyz Republic, Mali, Mozambique, of enhancing the physical, social and that a humane, functioning civil society social exclusion, diminish the vulnerability comprehensive private, non-profit health rural development, water and energy Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Syria, economic revitalization of communities in reflects the choices, made by people of poor populations, reduce poverty and networks in the developing world. management, environmental control, and Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, the the Islamic world. Its programs include: themselves, of how to live and improve help people become self-reliant. AKAM even policy and legislative development, United Kingdom and the United their prospects in harmony with the operates in both urban and rural settings The Aga Khan Planning and Building • The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, environment. Sustainability is, therefore, are among the various aspects that must Nations. Individual agencies also work and offers a range of microfinance Services (AKPBS) works to improve established in 1977. Presented every a central consideration from the outset. be taken into account.” closely with local, state and national services, including savings services, the built environment through design three years, the prize not only rewards governments in each country in which housing credits and education loans. and construction, village planning, individual architects for exemplary While each agency pursues its own – His Highness the Aga Khan, speaking Loans are accompanied by training in natural hazard mitigation, environmental at the Prince Claus Fund’s Conference on they are active. contemporary work but also singles out specific mandate, they all work together basic business concepts so borrowers sanitation and improved water supply Culture and Development, Amsterdam projects that propose innovative and within the overarching framework of the September 7, 2002. can become financially self-reliant. systems. It achieves these aims by AKDN and its constituent agencies replicable solutions to the problems of Aga Khan Development Network so that providing material, technical assistance actively seek to cooperate with like- social development. their different pursuits can interact and The Aga Khan Education Services and construction management services reinforce one another. Their common minded institutions in the design, (AKES) operates over 200 schools and for rural and urban areas. • The Aga Khan Historic Cities goal is to help poor communities achieve Picture above: implementation and funding of innovative advanced educational programs at the Programme, which was set up in 1992 a level of self-reliance whereby they are The Aga Khan (center) speaking with pre-school, primary, secondary and Two universities are part of the dignitaries in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2003. projects. With the help of program to implement conservation and urban able to plan their own livelihoods and help higher secondary levels in Pakistan, Network. Aga Khan University (AKU) partners, they seek to demonstrate revitalization projects in culturally those even more needy than themselves. India, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Kyrgyz is a major center for education, training that flexible private organizations with significant sites of the Islamic world. Republic, Uganda, the United Arab and research in the health sciences carefully defined objectives can make Such projects bring environmental, Emirates,Tanzania and Tajikistan. It and teacher education. Chartered as significant contributions to the well-being aims to diminish the many obstacles Pakistan’s first private international of large numbers of people. to educational access, quality and university in 1983, it has since The Humayun’s Tomb - Sundar Nursery - achievement. established branches and institutes in East Africa and the United Kingdom. Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti Urban Renewal The first of a planned network of 18 More recently, it has begun establishing Project, in the heart of Delhi, India, Aga Khan Academies (AKA) began Faculties of Arts and Sciences in Arusha, combines a cultural heritage project with operating in Mombasa, Kenya, in August Tanzania and Karachi, Pakistan. socio-economic initiatives. The objective Cover Photo: 2003. The second followed in Hyderabad, Large infrastructure projects are part of the of the project is to improve the quality of continuum of development undertaken by India, in 2011 and the third in Maputo, The University of Central Asia (UCA) life for people in the area while creating AKDN agencies. The Bujagali hydroelectric Mozambique in 2013. The Academies, is the world’s first university dedicated plant in Jinja, Uganda, which was built by dedicated to expanding access to exclusively to education and research in an important new green space for the a consortium led by the Aga Khan Fund for people of Delhi and beyond. Economic Development, supplies nearly half education of an international standard mountain regions and societies. Located of the electricity in the country. of excellence in Asia and Africa, feature on three campuses, in Khorog, Tajikistan;