Events
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Emerging Economies: Beyond Aid
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaJune 17, 2015 – Together with the remarkable progress and increasing global engagement, emerging economies also face a number of new development challenges; rising inequality, navigating the middle-income trap, balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability, ensuring good governance, and addressing the poverty paradox – whereby most of the global poor now live in middle-income countries. These challenges constitute a transformative shift of the current development paradigm based on addressing poverty in low-income countries, forcing traditional donor countries, CSOs and NGOs to re-think their development strategies.
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Canada Day at Pier 21
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaJune 30 – July 2, 2015 - On Canada Day, participants celebrated how Canadians are driving global change. Together: An exhibition
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Together: a workshop on global development
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaSeptember and October 2015 – Aga Khan Foundation Canada invited Canadians to join a conversation about Canada’s role in reducing global
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Graphic stories, graphic novels: Photojournalist Marc Ellison on pushing the boundaries of digital storytelling
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaSeptember 22, 2015 - Forget superheroes – these comic book characters are real people.
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The Audacity of Beauty: 30 Years in Haiti through the Lens of Maggie Steber
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaNovember 2015 - From the overthrow of “Baby Doc” Duvalier to recovery from the devastating 2010 earthquake, award-winning documentary photographer Maggie Steber has spent more than three decades working in Haiti. Delving deeper than sensational scenes of poverty and desperation, Maggie’s work brings Haitians’ stories to life with photographs that highlight beauty and humanity in unexpected places.
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Roshan: Canada’s Legacy in Afghanistan
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaNovember 5, 2015 - In 2003, when the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development established the Afghanistan mobile company Roshan, there was virtually no telecommunications infrastructure in the country. Some Afghans actually had to walk to a neighbouring country to make a phone call. Today, Roshan’s 1,000 towers reach more than six million subscribers.
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Executive Masterclass – Roshan: Light At The End Of The Tunnel In Afghanistan
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaNovember 6, 2015 - Aga Khan Foundation Canada hosted an Executive Masterclass on the Harvard Business School case study, Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan.
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L’Afghanistan découvert : La journaliste May Jeong raconte les histoires de l’Afghanistan de l’intérieur
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada6 et 9 novembre 2015 - Il y a trois ans, la journaliste indépendante primée May Jeong a fait ses valises
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La diplomatie numérique
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada19 novembre 2015 - La diplomatie numérique, parfois appelée « twiplomatie » (un amalgame de Twitter et diplomatie), désigne l’utilisation des
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Measuring Development Impact: Can Randomized Control Trials transform development?
Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, CanadaFebruary 4, 2016 - Measuring the true impact of social policies and programs is a significant challenge for the development sector. Over the last decade, researchers and policymakers have increasingly used Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) to measure the impact of development programs to understand if a program is achieving its intended results (see for instance a recent article in the Economist).
