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AKF works with partners to implement EU-funded programme designed to help Tajik farmers improve their yields

In Tajikistan, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has been working with its partners (the SAROB cooperative, ACTED, Camp Kuhiston and the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme) to implement a European Union-funded programme designed to help farmers improve their yields. The programme, Improving Livelihoods and Food Security through Sustainable Natural Resource Management, has supported 15 farmers to establish a local Agriculture Producer Group. Since June 2016, the programme has worked directly with over 800 farmers and activities have also extended to more than 10,000 beneficiaries who have improved their knowledge of agricultural land use technologies and become participants in the potato revolving fund.

Accelerate Prosperity enables young entrepreneurs in emerging regions of Central and South Asia

Accelerate Prosperity (AP), a global initiative of the AKDN in Central and South Asia, focuses on women and youth (age 16 to 30) in rural towns and peri-urban settings, where economic opportunities often remain insufficient. The initiative also targets entrepreneurs with low-income earnings, refugees and migrants, the unemployed and those who have not completed primary or secondary education. AP services reinforce the Network’s wider efforts to address constraints to business growth in rural settings – for example, investments in energy, telecoms and infrastructure – and work on upgrading promising agricultural and non-agricultural value chains as well as employable and soft skills. The initiative has reached over 12,200 aspiring and existing entrepreneurs – of which 43% youth.

AKAH tests Better Shelter’s modular, upgradable emergency shelter solution

Better Shelter, a Swedish social enterprise working with the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) on emergency and transitional housing solutions, has launched a low-cost emergency shelter which can be upgraded with local materials. During 2020, the Better Shelter team piloted "Structure" together with AKAH in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. This year, the enterprise is expected to scale up to provide "Structure" for 10,000 families.

 

 

Bringing clean energy and co-benefits to remote communities in Tajikistan and Afghanistan

A new report shows how clean, affordable and reliable electricity can be provided to thousands of people even in the poorest, most remote and difficult terrains. It illustrates how this simultaneously reduces energy poverty and carbon emissions while generating multiple co-benefits. Under a private public partnership established between AKFED and the Government of Tajikistan, Pamir Energy is responsible for developing, maintaining and operating all energy infrastructure and assets within the concession area of Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon (Gorno-Badakhshan). In addition, Pamir Energy improved the availability of clean, affordable and reliable electricity for another 20,000 people in Afghanistan. In total it serves just over 41,000 people in Northern Afghanistan through the cross-border projects which now also extend into Ishkashim, Maimai, and Nusai districts. (Full report available here)

Exposure visits for Tajik school directors in AKF's Education Improvement Programme

As part of its Education Improvement Programme (EIP) activities, the Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan, in collaboration with BRIPDE in GBAO, organised exposure visits for 41 AKF project schools’ directors in October 2020. The purpose of this exchange visit tour was to provide school directors from different districts of GBAO, both rural and urban, with exposure to the best learning environments in GBAO schools. 

JICA and AKF continue supporting development of agribusiness in Tajikistan

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) are continuing to support Tajikistan in ensuring food security through access to quality consulting services, provision of high quality seed and improved infrastructure. Funded by JICA and to be implemented by AKF within the framework of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Action Plan under the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will span 15 months. Both JICA and AKF have been providing support to the Government of Tajikistan to improve livelihood and ensure food security and will continue to enhance agriculture production to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 2 and ensure access to high quality food for all.

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