In the mountainous areas of Gilgit-Baltistan prone to floods, avalanches and rock fall, the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat is training local communities – women and men alike – to step up as first responders capable of providing rescue, relief and protection during emergency situations.
Each year on 10 October, the Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan (AKUH, P) participates in International Health Day to raise awareness across Pakistan. It reminds the public that mental health is as important as physical health and comprises emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Accelerate Prosperity and the Aga Khan University have launched Pakistan’s first National Health Incubator to support entrepreneurs grow new technology, innovation and services, and catalyse commercialisation in the country’s health sector.
The Aga Khan Development Network, the Government of Italy and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat co-organised a day-long event at Expo 2020 Dubai as an urgent call to action for sustainable and climate-resilient mountain development – highlighting best practices that include integrating disaster risk reduction measures into town planning and networking between and for mountain communities.
More than 90 percent of people living in mountain areas are in developing countries, including 634 million people living in rural areas. Without rural mountain planning, construction in these areas is often uncontrolled, unsafe and climatically unfit. The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat supports the resilience of mountain communities to plan for opportunity and create long-term value through a sustainable approach to habitat planning.
Pakistan is the eighth most vulnerable country to climate change in the world. Every year natural disasters and extreme weather affect almost three million people across the country. The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat is helping some of the most vulnerable communities manage these risks, prepare and respond in case disaster strikes, and plan for a more resilient future.
In Pakistan, two-thirds of the population lacks access to potable water and nearly half does not have access to basic sanitation. The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat is implementing a community-managed model to deliver sustainable, clean and safely managed water and sanitation services in homes in some of the most remote, mountain areas of the country.
This 28-minute documentary film introduces audiences to the transformative world of Schools2030, a programme led by the Aga Khan Foundation, and its mission to help give teachers and school communities the tools they need to become education innovators.
“Schools should be the centre of social change, not the target of change. This platform gives teachers a way to reclaim the discourse about ‘what works’ to improve holistic learning outcomes in some of the most challenging contexts in the world,” said Dr Andrew Cunningham, the Global Lead for Education at the Aga Khan Foundation.
The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has been reaccredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI) for another three years. AKUH was the first hospital in Pakistan to receive this honour in 2006 and has successfully maintained this accreditation throughout.