The Ismaili Imamat has announced it will be donating $10 million to support relief efforts following the severe flooding in Pakistan. $5m will be donated directly to the Government of Pakistan while a further $5m will be provided to the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) agencies in the country, which are engaged in the relief efforts.
On 5 May, Tajik Minister of Transport, Azim Ibrohim, held a meeting to discuss the construction of a bridge in the Takhar province, northern Afghanistan, which will be built by the Aga Khan Foundation.
With the support of UKAid, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is working with the Mountain Society Development Support Programme and local grass roots organisations, the University of Central Asia as well as the Accelerate Prosperity initiative, to tackle the sources of resource instability in the bor
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a five-year civil war, Tajikistan’s electrical infrastructure was in need of significant investment.
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunications (MoITT) and its tech innovation arm Ignite (National Technology Fund) launched Pakistan’s first national investment platform called PakImpactInvest, opening up new investment avenues.
In Islamabad, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Special Communications Organisation (SCO) and the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) to improve IT and digital infrastructure and services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).
Throughout its 115 years in the region, the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and its precursors have continued to innovate across the entire spectrum of development efforts.