Economic Development cardboard industries. Along with its partners, it In collaboration with its partners AKDN: also launched SEACOM, the under-sea cable, which The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development provides Internet connectivity to many East and (AKFED), an international development agency West African countries. dedicated to promoting private initiative and building economically sound enterprises, has been operating Recently, Frigoken Ltd., one of the region's largest in Tanzania for over 70 years. export-oriented vegetable processors, has set up an outgrower scheme in Arusha, Tanzania, engaging US$ 2.4 million 150,000 460,000 AKFED’s Tourism Promotion Services created the over 1,500 small-scale farmers in its value chain. northern circuit of Serena lodges in Ngorongoro, Helps community savings groups Helps 150k children access quality Hospitals and clinics provide over Manyara and Serengeti, and established the Serena Culture save over US$ 2.4 million yearly pre-primary and primary education 460,000 outpatient visits yearly Inn in Stone Town, Zanzibar. It now operates 10 hotels, eco-lodges and tented camps in and around The Aga Khan Trust for Culture assisted Zanzibar’s the national parks in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. Stone Town Conservation and Development Authority to restore 11 key buildings on or near Director of the Division of Nursing and Midwifery The first Aga Khan Girls School was built in Zanzibar Tanzania The Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust Company the waterfront, such as the “Old Dispensary” and Services in the Ministry of Health – and the Chair of in 1905. By the late 1960s, there were about 65 Limited, headquartered in Dar es Salaam, has been the Old Customs House. The former Ex-Telecom the Tanzania Nursing and Midwifery Council. Aga Khan Schools across Tanzania. The Aga Khan serving the East African region since 1946. With building – partially deserted since the 1930s – was Education Services (AKES) now operates three 24 branches across Tanzania, it provides services to converted by the Trust and is now the Zanzibar In 2015, AKHS initiated a US$ 83 million expansion schools in Dar es Salaam and one in Mwanza, small towns and adjoining rural populations. Serena Inn. plan for a network of 35 outreach health centres with a current enrolment of over 1,750 students. across Tanzania and expansion of the Aga Khan It offers curriculums including the Tanzanian Incorporated in 1937, the Jubilee Insurance Group Hospital to include comprehensive cardiology, national curriculum, the Primary Years Programme, The Forodhani Park’s restoration, completed in offers a variety of products, including a health oncology and neurosciences. Existing services the British curriculum and the International 2009, was undertaken by the Trust in cooperation insurance product using M-Pesa and agribusiness (diagnostics, women and child health, critical care, Baccalaureate diploma. An Aga Khan Academy with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar as insurance packages for farmers. surgery, emergency and trauma) will be extended. – part of an integrated network of 18 residential part of a comprehensive programme for seafront schools being developed across Africa, Asia and the rehabilitation in Stone Town. By restoring the city’s Industrial Promotion Services operates a number major urban open space, it has improved the quality Education Middle East – is to be built in Dar es Salaam. of firms in the leather processing and corrugated of civic life for Zanzibaris. The Network has made a wide array of investments With over 255 alumni from its Master of Education in education, from early childhood development to programme, the Aga Khan University Institute university studies. for Educational Development offers needs-based Certificate in Education programmes, short courses Development Partners SOCIAL In Zanzibar and Southern Tanzania, AKF supports and workshops for education professionals and key community members. Government of Tanzania , Government of Zanzibar, East African Community (EAC), European CULTURAL government and communities to improve the quality Commission, Global Affairs Canada, Agence Francaise de Developpment (AFD), UK Department for of early years teaching and learning. In 2017, more International Development (DFID), Norfund - Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, than 50,000 children (50 percent girls) benefitted The Aga Khan University’s Faculty of Arts and Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), Dubai Cares, Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Flora ECONOMIC from support to 400 pre-primary classes. Sciences, which represents a US$ 450 million Family Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, UNICEF, IFC, World Bank, BMZ/KfW, Alliance Française, Firelight investment, will include undergraduate and graduate Foundation, Children in Crossfire (CiC), Mathematica Policy Research, Empowering Social Change (SoCha) Over the past four years, AKF in partnership with programmes. The graduate schools will feature law, the Madrasa Early Childhood Programme in Zanzibar architecture and human settlement, management, has delivered professional development to 900 government, economics, tourism and leisure pre-primary teachers across 400 pre-schools, while and media. In its first phase, it will enrol 1,500 Support AKDN For more information assisting the Ministry of Education and Vocational undergraduate and 100 postgraduate students. Training to mainstream the community-based pre- Partnerships Aga Khan Development Network (Tanzania) 78, Haile Selassie Road / PO Box 23105 schooling approach. On the policy front, the East African Institute When AKDN refines its development approach in a given area, Oysterbay, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Arusha), launched in 2014, is a forum that it looks to partners to help expand the scale. A significant Tel: +255 22 266 6913/4 AKF also collaborates with the Government of conducts research and fosters dialogue with the portion of the funding for its activities therefore comes from Fax: +255 22 266 6915 national governments, multilateral institutions and private Tanzania to improve student learning outcomes at goal of developing policies to address the most Email: [email protected] sector partners. For more information, visit: akdn.org/partners pre-primary and primary levels in the Lindi Region. important challenges facing the region, including Website: www.akdn.org/tanzania youth, urbanisation, food insecurity, natural The programme supports professional development Individuals © AKDN, October 2017. Information contained in this brief can be reproduced of educators in 150 schools, and strengthens resources and climate change. with acknowledgement to AKDN. Photo credits: AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura Individuals can support the AKDN. For more information, teacher training institutions, school management visit: akdn.org/support committees and community libraries. AKF has Dr. Farouk Topan, revered Kiswahili language and also collaborated with the Tanzanian Institute of literature scholar, leads the development of the Education and The Education Quality Improvement Kiswahili Centre in Arusha. The centre oversees Cover page: (top left to right) Madrasa Early Childhood Programme; rice farming; AKU nursing student providing community health Programme – Tanzania (DFID funded) to develop the the creation of the first digital Kiswahili collection in services; (middle left to right) Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge; Social, Cultural, Economic: the nature of positive change that AKDN school readiness programme. the world. institutions and programmes aim to achieve; Digital Savings Group; (bottom left to right) Community nutrition and farming. www.akdn.org AKDN in Tanzania Food Security Savings Groups Health & Nutrition The Coastal Rural Support In order to help rural The Network's Programme operates in communities manage risk nursing and midwifery For more than a century, the Aga Khan approximately 120,000 beneficiaries (over two of Tanzania’s poorest more effectively, AKDN programmes upgrade Development Network (AKDN) has been 50 percent female), with an annual budget of provinces, Mtwara and Lindi, promotes community-based nursing skills, provide in- contributing to poverty alleviation, education, health approximately US$ 2.4 million. where it works with 54,000 savings groups. Digital, service professionals the care, economic development and cultural restoration farmers (44 percent female) cashless transactions using opportunity to advance in Tanzania, both on the mainland and in Zanzibar. Technology now allows for the community-managed to increase rice production simple mobile phones their accreditations, and Over 54,000 smallholder farmers in Mtwara and approach – along with its mutual support and and improve sesame remove the thorny issue of improve the quality of Lindi have improved their productivity and income savings objectives – to be conducted through Digital production significantly. money security. health care services. by at least 100 percent. Over 120,000 women Savings Groups. Developed and tested by AKF and men participate in community-based savings in Tanzania, the digital solution offers a cashless, groups, saving over US$ 2.4 million annually. paperless offering that removes the thorny issue of Lake ¯ More than 150,000 children are benefiting from money security, as savings are facilitated through MARA Education Victoria )")" quality pre-primary and primary education, and over simple mobile phones. M T The Aga Khan Foundation 28,000 women and children have improved health supports communities in