Overview of the Aga Khan Development Network

Support the AKDN Partnerships Individuals Typically, when the AKDN refines its Individuals can support the AKDN. development approach in a given area, For more information, visit: it looks to partners to help expand akdn.org/support the scale. A significant portion of the funding for AKDN activities therefore comes from national governments, Join the conversation multilateral institutions and private sector partners. For more information, visit: akdn.org/partners Overview of the Aga Khan Development Network

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Aga Khan Fund for Aga Khan Agency Aga Khan Aga Khan University of Aga Khan Trust Economic Development for Microfinance Foundation University Central Asia for Culture SOCIAL Tourism Promotion Industrial Promotion Aga Khan Education Services Aga Khan Award Aga Khan Historic Services Services for Architecture Cities Programme Aga Khan Health Services CULTURAL

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Cover page: (top left to right) An urban renewal project in Cairo, Egypt; His Highness the Aga Khan speaking with dignitaries in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2003; a girls’ education programme in Badakhshan, Afghanistan; (middle left to right) a water tap stand built by the AKDN in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan; Social, Cultural, Economic: the nature of positive change that AKDN institutions and programmes aim to achieve; a rice farming programme in Madagascar; (bottom left to right) a music and arts education programme in Central Asia; an in-service nursing studies programme in East Africa; a power generation project in Jinja, Uganda, which supplies nearly half of the electricity in the country.

For further information: Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), 1-3 Avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 909 7200; E-mail: [email protected]

© AKDN, June 2016. Information contained in this brief can be reproduced with acknowledgement to AKDN. Photo credits: AKDN / Sandra Calligaro; Lucas Cuervo Moura; Alain Lits; Gary Otte; Jean-Luc Ray; Bujagali Energy Limited. www.akdn.org The AKDN’s Global Impact Health Care Education The AKDN operates one The AKDN operates For over 60 years the Aga Khan Development of the largest non-profit, educational programmes that Network (AKDN) has been building institutions private healthcare sys- range from pre-school to and delivering essential services by creating tems in the developing post-graduate studies. The schools and hospitals, newspapers and world. Because effective University of Central Asia is healthcare depends on under construction in Naryn, electricity generation plants, and social qualified staff, the training Kyrgyzstan, and due to open programmes of all kinds. These services of healthcare workers is its Bachelor-Master degree have helped improve the lives of hundreds of of central importance. programmes in 2016. millions of people in places as varied as Cairo, Kabul, Delhi and Bamako.

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United Kingdom Culture Canada The AKDN integrates cultural development United States Germany into many of its of America Kazakhstan projects. The various France Switzerland city parks and gardens Kyrgyz Republic it has built provide tens Portugal Tajikistan of millions of urban Italy Syria dwellers with oases of Afghanistan green space. Egypt Pakistan

UAE Mali India Bangladesh Burkina Faso Each year in collaboration with Senegal Rwanda Malaysia its partners the AKDN : Côte d'Ivoire Uganda DRC Kenya Singapore Tanzania

Burundi Mozambique Madagascar 10 million 5 million AKDN programmes and institutions All AKDN programmes and institutions operate Generates electricity Provides quality health in multiple countries. for 10 million people care to 5 million people Infrastructure Rural Development The AKDN promotes In 11 poor and remote entrepreneurial activity in areas of the developing the developing world by world, the AKDN rural investing in large power support programmes help generation projects, in- 8 million people to achieve 2 million 5 million dustrial production, tour- greater food security, raise ism development and household incomes and Reaches 2 million Receives 5 million financial services, among improve the overall quality students pre-school visitors in its various other areas. of life. to university level parks and gardens Support the AKDN Partnerships Individuals Typically, when the AKDN refines its Individuals can support the AKDN. development approach in a given area, For more information, visit: it looks to partners to help expand akdn.org/support the scale. A significant portion of the funding for AKDN activities therefore comes from national governments, Join the conversation multilateral institutions and private sector partners. For more information, visit: akdn.org/partners Overview of the Aga Khan Development Network

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AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

ECONOMIC SOCIAL CULTURE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

Financial Services Media Services Aga Khan Agency Aga Khan Aga Khan for Habitat Music Initiative Museum ECONOMIC Aviation Services Aga Khan Academies

For further information: Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), 1-3 Avenue de la Paix, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 909 7200; E-mail: [email protected]