The Aga Khan University and its partners conducted the largest-ever National Nutrition Survey in Pakistan to provide policymakers, programme managers and academics with a unique set of nutrition-related data that is yielding environmental, anthropometric and biochemical insights.
To help smallholder farmers increase their income, the University of Central Asia’s Mountain Societies Research Institute and the International Potato Centre also organised workshops on the process of introducing low-cost farming technologies for over 150 villagers in five villages of Khatlon.
This policy brief was developed as an output from the Development Dialogue on “Food Security and Nutrition in Kyrgyzstan – Trends, Challenges and the Next Steps” in November 2018.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UCA distributed food and medical supplies to 500 families identified by the Mayor’s office in the vulnerable category in Naryn (Kyrgyzstan). This includes masks, hand sanitizers, antibacterial soap, flour, pasta and cooking oil.
In early March, Prince Rahim, accompanied by his wife, Princess Salwa, visited Kenya and Tanzania, to better understand the plans and responses of the various institutions and agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network towards environmental sustainability and climate action.
The University of Central Asia’s (UCA) Mountain Societies Research Institute (MSRI) organised a “Fragile Water” exhibit in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Schoolchildren from 10 local schools presented water related projects, as part of MSRI’s “Kyrgyz Mountains Environmental Education and Citizen Science” project.
Makenna Muigai, the 17-year-old Kenyan climate activist and student at the Aga Khan Academy in Kenya, speaks with all Africa's David Njagi in an interview about the locust invasion in East Africa, what African leaders need to do and how the climate crisis affects the peace agenda on the continent
HDFC, an Indian bank, started the Farm Field School, a programme that is helping rural and marginalised communities in Bihar’s Vaishali district better their lives.
On 2 February, the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government signed an agreement to develop agricultural land through construction of water channels in parts of the mountainous region.