Aga Khan Foundation Canada

Reducing Violent Extremism: What Works?
2017-06-07 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, 199 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1N 1K6, Canada
Fifteen years into the “Global War on Terror,” governments continue to struggle to contain the threat of violent extremism.

Despite significant investments of time and resources to develop strategies and programming aimed at reducing violence, evidence on “what works” has evaded policymakers and practitioners working on violence reduction – particularly countering violent extremism or stabilization efforts.
On June 7, 2017 Aga Khan Foundation Canada hosted a special briefing by Global Affairs Canada and Mercy Corps on innovative methods for preventing extreme violence in fragile states.
Discussions centered around:
-What types of interventions, both online and offline, work towards reducing violence and violent extremism?
-What are current global trends in protecting human rights, including respect for diversity and inclusion?
-In what contexts could foreign assistance exacerbate violence?
-What types of interventions reduce support for violence?
-What have we learned after more than a decade of post-conflict stabilization efforts?
Speakers included:
Dr. Rebecca Wolfe
Director of Peace and Conflict
Mercy Corps
Richard Arbeiter
Director General, Office of Human Rights, Freedoms and Inclusion
Global Affairs Canada

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Measuring Success: A showcase on best practices and innovations in monitoring, evaluation, and learning
2017-05-08 13:00 - 16:00
On Monday, May 8, 2017, The Ottawa Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) community of practice presented Measuring Success: A showcase on best practices and innovations in monitoring, evaluation, and learning in partnership with Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat. The event attracted people interested in learning about new ideas and best practices used by Canadian international development organizations in monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Many organizations face similar challenges when it comes to monitoring progress, measuring impact, and learning from past experiences. And many organizations have found creative and innovative ways to address these challenges and improve their ability to deliver effective and sustainable development programming.
This showcase featured presentations from several Canadian international development organizations, including Global Affairs Canada, in a knowledge exchange intended to strengthen Canadian practices in monitoring and evaluation (M&E).
The following topics were covered:

Setting up M&E, and learning systems
Defining beneficiaries
Building accountability
Leveraging new technologies
Developing theories of change
Gender mainstreaming

The free learning and networking event was an opportunity to:

Discuss good practices and innovations in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning;
Gain fresh insights on how your own organization compares with, and can learn from, other organizations involved in development cooperation;
Help inform the future of the Ottawa-based MEAL Community of Practice by sharing your ideas and perspectives with colleagues from various organizations, and;
Explore the new results-based management (RBM) guide from Global Affairs Canada.

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The Ottawa Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) community of practice

Executive Masterclass: Measurement in Impact Investing
2017-05-05 10:00 - 12:00
On Friday, May 5, 2017 Aga Khan Foundation Canada held its second Executive Masterclass, which used the case method to allow participants to actively engage on development issues that cut across sectors and expertise. This masterclass addressed the challenges of impact investing, using the Harvard Business School case study, Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A). The masterclass led participants in a dynamic, interactive exploration of whether Acumen should invest in two innovative new projects in Kenya aimed at delivering services to the poor. With a specific focus on identifying key performance metrics to measure social impact, participants determined whether the two projects met Acumen’s social and financial investment criteria.
The masterclass was facilitated by the author of the case, Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tufts University and featured special insights and commentary from Acumen Fund.

Alnoor Ebrahim is an Associate Professor in the General Management Unit, and in the Social Enterprise Initiative, at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance facing social sector organizations. He is also a principal of Harvard University’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Prior to joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School, Alnoor Ebrahim was the Wyss Visiting Scholar at HBS, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also taught at Virginia Tech for several years, where he was a founding co-director of the Institute for Governance and Accountabilities. He holds a BSc degree from MIT (1991) in civil and environmental engineering, and a PhD from Stanford University (1999), where he studied environmental planning and management.

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Growing Gains – Advancing Early Childhood Development
2017-05-01
On Monday, May 1, 2017 Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the Alliance for Human Development explored how tested approaches to early childhood development can be integrated into global development programming and policy. Growing gains – Advancing Early Childhood Development presented findings from the recent Lancet series on early childhood development, and illuminated how Canada contributes to advancing this field nationally and globally. We were joined by several authors of the Lancet series, other experts, and policymakers for a series of interactive sessions, engaging talks, and stimulating discussion.
Special guests:

The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Ted Chaiban, Director of Programmes, UNICEF

With:

Stephen Lye, Executive Director, Alliance for Human Development; Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids); Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health; and Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University
Pia Britto, Chief and Senior Advisor, Early Childhood Development, UNICEF

And speakers:

Catherine Birken, Scientist, SickKids Research Institute
Shoo Lee, Scientific Director, Canadian Institutes for Health Research
Kofi Marfo, Executive Director, Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University
Stephen McGurk, Vice President, Programs and Partnership Branch, International Development Research Centre
Karlee Silver, Vice President, Programs, Grand Challenges Canada

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Ted Chaiban, Director of Programmes, UNICEF. Ted Chaiban was appointed as Director of Programmes for UNICEF in August 2014. Prior to this assignment, he was Director of Emergency Programmes for UNICEF where he mobilized support for UNICEF’s response to large scale emergencies in Syria, the Central African Republic, the Philippines and South Sudan and designed and initiated a humanitarian reform process, known as the Strengthening Humanitarian Action initiative, to increase the timeliness, effectiveness and efficiency of UNICEF’s humanitarian action. Mr. Chaiban is a national of both the United States of America and Lebanon. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Political Science from Tufts University and a Master of Arts Degree in Development and Arab Studies from Georgetown University, USA.
Dr. Stephen Lye, Executive Director, Alliance for Human Development; Senior Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. Stephen Lye Ph.D., is a Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Sinai Health System where he is the ScotiaBank Scientist in Child and Adolescent Development and the Women’s Auxiliary Chair in Women’s and Infants’ Health Research. Dr. Lye is Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Physiology and Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lye leads the Alliance for Human Development, a transdisciplinary initiative that seeks to improve the health and well-being of all children, everywhere, by focusing on optimizing their development in early-life. His research has integrated discovery, clinical and translational studies including the commercialization of discoveries in partnership with industry. Dr. Lye has established international research consortia focused on identifying interactions between an individual’s genetic make-up and their environment during the first 2000 days of life that underlie obesity and cardio-metabolic disorders. He has published over 230 research papers on pregnancy and maternal-child health with a special focus on mechanisms underlying preterm birth and other pregnancy complications. Dr. Lye has received numerous awards and honors, including Fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (UK) and the President’s Scientific Achievement Award from the Society for Reproductive Investigation.
Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids); Co-Director, SickKids Centre for Global Child Health; and Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University. Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments. He also holds adjunct professorships at several leading Universities globally including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), Tufts University (Boston), Boston University School of Public Health, University of Alberta as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the Founding Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2003-2014. Bhutta was a member of the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) appointed by the UN Secretary General for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health MDGs (2011-2015). He represented the global academic and research organizations on the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (Gavi) Board and was the co-chair of the Global Countdown for 2015 Initiative from 2006-2016. Bhutta is the co-chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) and the chairman of the Coalition of Centers in Global Child Health with its secretariat based at SickKids.
Dr. Pia Britto, Chief and Senior Advisor, Early Childhood Development, UNICEF. Dr. Pia Britto joined UNICEF in 2014 as Chief of Early Childhood Development, bringing with her many years of expertise in early childhood policy and programmes. Prior to joining UNICEF she was an Assistant Professor at Yale University and is internationally renowned for her work on developing, implementing and evaluating early childhood programmes and policies around the world. This includes providing evidence for the role of governance and finance in national systems in achieving equity; developing models for quality early childhood services; promoting women’s economic empowerment, and the role of parents and caregivers. Dr. Britto has been the recipient of various awards and grants; has published articles, books and reports; and made numerous presentations at both academic and non-academic conferences and seminars. She obtained her doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University.
Dr. Catherine Birken, Scientist, SickKids Research Institute. Catherine Birken MD, MSc, is a general paediatrician in the division of Paediatric Medicine, Associate Professor, University of Toronto (U of T), and a Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. Her clinical care activities include attending paediatrician in inpatient paediatrics, and paediatrician in the outpatient SickKids Obesity Management Program for children with complex obesity. Her research is in prevention of childhood overweight and obesity in early childhood, and is co-leader of TARGet Kids! primary care practice based research network to advance child health research. Dr. Birken is funded by CIHR for the study of obesity and cardiometabolic risk and early childhoood development in school, 2 randomized controlled trials in obesity prevention and treatmnet with public health nurse led parenting and home visiting intervention, and a population evaluation of the Healthy Kids Community Challenge in Ontario.
Dr. Shoo Lee, Scientific Director, Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Dr. Shoo Lee is a neonatologist and health economist. He is Scientific Director of the Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH) at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Public Health; Paediatrician-in-Chief and Director of the Maternal-Infant Care (MICare) Research Centre at Mt. Sinai Hospital and Senior Clinician Scientist of the Lunenfeld-Tannenbaum Research Institute. Dr. Lee received his medical degree from the University of Singapore, completed his paediatric training at the Janeway Children’s Hospital in Newfoundland and neonatal fellowship training at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, and received his PhD in Health Policy (Economics) from Harvard University. As the founder and Chairman of the Canadian Neonatal NetworkTM and the International Neonatal Collaboration, Dr Lee fosters collaborative research, and he leads the CIHR Team in Maternal-Infant Care. His research focuses on improving quality of care, patient outcomes and health care services delivery. He developed Family Integrated Care model and piloted the concept at Mount Sinai Hospital. Awards for his work include the CAPHC 2016 Contribution to Child Health Award, SPR Douglas K. Richardson Award for Perinatal & Pediatric Healthcare Research, CIHR Knowledge Translation Award, the Aventis Pasteur Research Award and the Distinguished Neonatologist Award from the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Premier Member of Honour Award from the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neonatologia, Magnolia Award from the Shanghai government and Honorary President of the Xiamen Children’s Hospital from the Xiamen government.
Dr. Kofi Marfo, Executive Director, Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University. Dr. Kofi Marfo is Professor and Foundation Director, Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University (South-Central Asia, East Africa, and United Kingdom). He has previously held academic positions at the University of South Florida (USA), Kent State University (USA), Memorial University (Canada), the University of Alberta (Canada), and the University of Cape Coast (Ghana).A graduate of the University of Alberta (PhD, 1985), Professor Marfo’s current scholarly interests are in the areas of developmental science and childhood interventions, advancement of a global interdisciplinary science of human development, and paradigmatic issues in behavioral science and education research. He has published extensively in the areas of early child development, childhood disability, early intervention efficacy, parent-child interaction, and behavioral development in children adopted into North America from China. His scholarship has been cited across many disciplines in over 180 different journals worldwide. He is co-leader of an initiative to support child development research capacity-building in Africa and is a co-convener of the African Scholars in Child/Early Child Development Workshop series. Most recently, he has supported the successful establishment, in 2015, of the African Early Childhood Network and serves as Founding Chair of its Board of Trustees. Professor Marfo has been a Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, a finalist for Distinguished University Professor (University of South Florida), a U.S. National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow, and an Irving B. Harris Mid-Career Leadership Fellow (Zero to Three Organization—USA). He served on the WHO Task Force on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), officially endorsed by the 54th World Health Assembly on May 22, 2001. He was a founding member of the Bio-behavioral and Behavioral Sciences Subcommittee of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD—USA). He has been a member of the Governing Council of the Society for Research in Child Development and currently serves on advisory boards for two private foundations with substantial investments in early childhood development.
Dr. Stephen McGurk, Vice President, Programs and Partnership Branch, International Development Research Centre. Stephen McGurk is an economist and sinologist who has spent more than three decades studying Asia’s rural development. He has extensive experience in research for development, as a research leader, research manager, researcher, and technical advisor. As IDRC’s Vice-President, Programs and Partnership Branch, McGurk oversees all of the Centre’s research programming. Prior to taking up this leadership, McGurk led the Centre’s Agriculture and Environment Program which is dedicated to supporting research to increase agricultural productivity and food and water security while also ensuring environmental sustainability. He previously served as Regional Director in IDRC’s South Asia and China Office in Delhi, between 2006 and 2012, and in IDRC’s Southeast and East Asia office in Singapore, between 2000 and 2006. Between 1992 and 2000, McGurk worked with the Ford Foundation in Beijing, where he was responsible for its economic security program in China. He taught environmental and resource economics at the University of California in 1990-1992 and worked with the World Bank on China’s rural development between 1986 and 1992. McGurk has a PhD (Development Economics) and MA (Nutrition) from Stanford University’s Food Research Institute and a BA (Chinese/Political Science) from the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Karlee Silver, Vice President, Programs, Grand Challenges Canada. Karlee Silver is Vice President Programs for Grand Challenges Canada. Dr. Silver is responsible for the strategy of the Stars in Global Health, Saving Lives at Birth, Saving Brains and Global Mental Health programs. She is a thought leader for the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace and helps manage the Fellows who contribute to the Innovation Marketplace activities. Dr. Silver has been with Grand Challenges Canada since it launched, and led the process of selecting the organization’s prioritized grand challenges. Prior to joining Grand Challenges Canada, Dr. Silver trained in the laboratory of Dr. Kevin Kain at the Sandra Rotman Centre in Toronto, first as a Canadian Institutes of Health Research postdoctoral fellow, then as a MITACS Elevate postdoctoral fellow, where she helped to identify host responses of malaria infection in pregnant women to harness for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Dr. Silver received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she attended as a Rhodes Scholar and trained in genetics and immunology under the supervision of Professor Richard Cornall and Professor Sir John Bell. An accumulation of inspirations, including traveling through southern Africa after Oxford, led to a refocus towards global health. Witnessing both the strength of women to sustain their families and communities, and the vulnerability of these same women to the consequences of poverty inspired Dr. Silver to apply herself to health issues of women in developing countries.

Bringing migration home: International reporting in an interconnected world
2017-04-27
Last year, millions of people left their homes and moved to a new country. Seeking opportunities, seeking refuge, seeking a new future. This year, global forces like poverty, climate change, and conflict will keep driving people across borders. What are their stories? And how will their stories be told?
On April 27th, Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) and the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) hosted Shannon Gormley as she explained why it’s so important for Canadian journalists to report from the places refugees and migrants are leaving.
An Ottawa Citizen global affairs columnist and freelance journalist, Shannon Gormley was a 2015 recipient of the Fellowship for International Development Reporting. Her fellowship project focused on the vulnerable residents of Kiribati, a country which has become famous for its approach to dealing with rising sea levels and climate change.
AKFC was pleased to present this event in partnership with the CAJ.

Shannon Gormley is an Ottawa Citizen global affairs columnist and freelance journalist. Her work focuses on international trends in rights and democracy, drawn from her reporting throughout the Middle East, Southern Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

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Your journey starts here: Information sessions for the International Youth Fellowship Program
2017-01-17
January 17, 2017 – For 28 years, Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s International Youth Fellowship Program has brought the best of Canada to the world to change people’s lives for the better. The Fellowship offers an international development training program and an eight-month overseas placement to recent university graduates and young professionals who are 30 years of age or younger.
Find out how you can join us in making a difference in the world. We hosted two online information sessions for our 2017 International Youth Fellowship Program.
Each session was led by two former Fellows: Lauren Stanley and Jamie Charlebois on January 10, and Jessica Poulin and Elizabeth McSheffrey on January 12. They discussed their experiences with the program and answered participants’ questions.
View the January 12 session:

We would greatly appreciate if you could help us promote this exceptional program by sharing this news with young professionals in your networks.
Visit our website and FAQ page to learn more about the International Youth Fellowship Program.

Séance d'information sur le Programme de stages pour jeunes en développement international
2017-01-14
Le 7 janvier 2016 – Nous avons offert une séance d’information en ligne sur notre Programme de stages pour jeunes en développement international. La séance a été animée par deux anciens participants du programme : Nabeel Ahmed et Faaria Meghji. Nabeel et Faaria ont parlé de leur expérience avec le programme et ont répondu aux questions des participants. Veuillez noter que la séance a eu lieu en anglais.
La séance a eu lieu le jeudi 14 janvier à 18 h HNE sur Google Hangout. Regardez ici (en anglais seulement) :

Pour en apprendre davantage, veuillez consulter notre site Web sur le Programme de stages pour jeunes en développement international et notre page FAQ.
Nos présentateurs :
Faaria Meghji
Faaria Meghji possède un baccalauréat en commerce de l’Université Queen. Elle a travaillé en planification financière d’entreprise pendant deux ans avant de partir pour l’Inde et le Bangladesh dans le cadre du Programme de stages pour jeunes de la Fondation Aga Khan Canada. En Asie du Sud-Est, Faaria a travaillé pour CARE avec des communautés rurales marginalisées dans les domaines du développement des microentreprises, de l’agriculture et du changement climatique, de la sécurité alimentaire et de l’autonomisation des femmes. Elle a interviewé des récipiendaires, rédigé des rapports d’évaluation, créé des plans d’entreprise et de projet, produit des ressources de mobilisation des donateurs et analysé des données qualitatives et quantitatives. Sa plus grande réalisation a été de coordonner l’élaboration d’une proposition de projet fructueuse auprès du gouvernement suisse pour une somme de neuf millions de francs suisses. Faaria travaille actuellement en planification financière d’entreprise à Toronto, mais commencera une maîtrise en travail social l’an prochain, son expérience internationale l’ayant motivée encore davantage à se consacrer à des causes sociales.
Nabeel Ahmed
Nabeel est coordonnateur de réseau pour Social Enterprise Toronto, un réseau autodirigé d’entreprises sociales sans but lucratif dans la région du Grand Toronto qui créent des occasions d’emploi et de formation pour des personnes marginalisées.
Dans le cadre du Programme, Nabeel a travaillé dans le volet de la microfinance et des microentreprises internationales en tant qu’analyste financier à l’Université de l’Asie centrale à Bichkek, au Kyrgyzstan. Il est resté actif en développement international par le biais de son travail avec Pakathon et avec l’Association pour le développement du Pakistan.
Nabeel détient un baccalauréat de l’Institut de l’administration des affaires à Karachi, au Pakistan, ainsi qu’un certificat en administration publique et leadership de l’Université Ryerson, à Toronto. Il aime jouer au cricket et participer à de bonnes discussions, et il s’intéresse à la culture (en particulier celles du sous-continent sud-asiatique).

Cautionary tales of complex causation: Qualitative and mixed method impact assessment of climate change and livelihood transformations in Africa
2016-10-20
Participants joined Aga Khan Foundation Canada for the fifth event of our series Measuring Development Impact with Professor James Copestake from the University of Bath. Dr. Copestake’s research takes a fresh, empirically grounded look at how we can strengthen qualitative and mixed method impact evaluation by benchmarking different methods against each other. Dr. Copestake drew upon his own action research into the complex causal attribution problems arising from climate change and livelihood transformations in Ethiopia and Malawi.

James Copestake is Professor of International Development at the University of Bath. His research interests include rural development and agrarian change; development finance, microfinance and aid management; definition and measurement of well-being and poverty; and the global political economy of development. James was Principal Investigator for the ESRC-DFID funded ‘Assessing Rural Transformations’ (ART) project. The ART consortium includes Evidence for Development alongside the University of Bath, Gorta Self Help Africa and Farm Africa, and seeks to broaden the range of credible and cost-effective evaluation methodologies available for assessing rural development interventions in complex contexts.

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How FinTech can tackle global poverty
2016-10-19
But innovations in financial technology – or FinTech – have the potential to break the cycle of poverty. Participants learned how new technologies at the forefront of the FinTech revolution, such as mobile banking, can unlock new opportunities for the world’s poor, by providing access to new markets and promoting financial inclusion.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada, Invest Ottawa, and MaRS brought together the FinTech and international development community in Canada like never before, in order to foster new collaborations, increase community engagement, and share knowledge.

The MaRS #FinTechCA series crossed three cities in three weeks—Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal—for a national series of fireside chats and keynotes to address the latest technology trends, global opportunities, and regulatory changes rocking the financial world.
What was discussed?
• What does the future of FinTech look like from an innovation and regulatory perspective?• The flow of venture capital into Canadian FinTech.• What do VCs look for in FinTech companies?• FinTech in the global context: what opportunities exist?• Which Canadian cities are making an impact on the FinTech ecosystem?• How FinTech can help alleviate poverty globally.• How can we nurture more innovation and investment in FinTech?• How is MaRS bringing together the major players in FinTech?

Arti Modi, CEO, LendingArch | @artimodi_
Adam Nanjee, Head of Financial Technology, MaRS Discovery District | @adamnanjee
Tim Attia, CEO, Slice Labs | @TAttia
Laurence Cooke, Founder & CEO, nanoPay | @laurencecooke
Glenn Campbell, Director, Financial Institutions Division, Financial Sector Policy, Finance Canada
Benoit Destouches, Finance Director, Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance
Karen Letain, Director of Marketing and Communications, Invest Ottawa | @kletain

The MaRS FinTech cluster connects the financial services sector with startups developing next generation technology in emerging payments, financial services, peer-to-peer transactions, alternative lending and crypto-currencies. MaRS offers high-growth fintech startups the most comprehensive set of resources in Canada. Through a strategic network of partners, the FinTech cluster supports entrepreneurs with rapid validation, access to investment, product feedback, sales opportunities and business advisory services.

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Embracing Complexity: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Development and Humanitarian Assistance
2016-09-21
Impact evaluations are a complex but critical component of development policy and practice. Done well, they provide evidence of the effectiveness of interventions and offer lessons for future programs. In crisis or conflict situations, however, assessing the impact of interventions is even more challenging and complex, given the urgency for immediate response. In both development and humanitarian contexts, embracing complexity is key to measuring impact.
Participants joined Aga Khan Foundation Canada for the fourth event of our series on Measuring Development Impact, Embracing Complexity with Dr. Jyotsna (Jo) Puri, Deputy Executive Director and Head of Evaluation, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Dr. Puri’s presentation explored the evidence on what is working, how and for whom, in both development and crisis situations. She spoke about the nature of that evidence and focus specifically on areas such as climate change, governance and humanitarian assistance – areas that have traditionally received less attention in the search for evidence of development impact.

Dr. Jyotsna (Jo) Puri is Deputy Executive Director and Head of Evaluation at the International Initiative of Impact Evaluation (3ie). Jo is also adjunct faculty at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York, where she teaches development evaluation. She is currently advising International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), World Food Program (WFP) and Alliance for Green Revolution Africa (AGRA) on impact evaluations of programmes related to humanitarian assistance, agriculture and environment. She is also currently working on an edited book with two others, that synthesizes studies that evaluate climate change programmes Jo leads 3ie sector-based work on themes such as social norms, agriculture, nutrition, community engagement and environment. She was also an adviser on the policy and technical aspects of the Green Economy report produced by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Jo has more than 21 years of experience in policy research and development evaluation. She has undertaken and led evaluation related work for the World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the MacArthur Foundation. Her research has focused on analyzing poverty impacts of policy and infrastructure investments in Asia and Latin America as well as environmental trade-offs in developing countries. As policy adviser at UNEP she has provided thematic and strategic advice on program development and engaging governments at various levels for effective delivery of outcomes for equitable, green growth transitions. She is the lead author of a book on measuring and interpreting monitoring and evaluation indicators prepared for the Human Development Report Office and published by UNDP; Co-author of a book examining implications of Joint Implementation of Climate Change commitments for developing countries and led the publication of a synthesis report on Forests in a Green Economy published by UNEP. She sits on the board of Community of Evaluators, South Asia and the Geneva based Humanitarian Quality Assurance Initiative (HQAI). Jo’s academic qualifications include a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Resource Economics and a Masters in Development Economics.

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Our Stories as Global Citizens - featuring Together: an exhibition on global development
2016-09-14
Participants walked through a custom-built truck with 1,000 square feet of interactive exhibit space and explored how Canadians are driving positive change around the world.

The program celebrated the role that Canadians play in local and global development and the important role that we can all play as global citizens.
Four notable individuals shared their journeys towards global citizenship!

Michael Redhead Champagne Community Organiser and Founder, Aboriginal Youth Opportunities

Margaret Rempel Farmer and former BoardMember, Canadian FoodgrainsBank

Pablo Felices-Luna Artistic Director, ManitobaTheatre for Young People
Kyra Moshtaghi Nia Board Member, Canadian FairTrade Network and CommitteeMember, Fair Trade Winnipeg

Michael Redhead Champagne has spent nearly two decades speaking out and leading by example. He takes a hopeful and solution oriented approach to youth engagement, facilitation, community organizing and mobilization. The list of accolades for his work are both lengthy and well deserved. He was recognized as the 2016 Canadian Red Cross Young Humanitarian of the Year and in TIME Magazine as a Next Generation Leader. In 2016, Michael served on the Bank of Canada’s bank note advisory committee with a task of creating a short list of women nominated by the public to appear on a new bank note. Michael has also received a Manitoba Aboriginal Youth Achievement Award as well as recognition as a CBC Manitoba Future 40 leader, a Manitoba Hero, and a Future Leader of Manitoba. As the founder of AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities), he is committed to a wide variety of important community initiatives including Meet Me at the Bell Tower, AYO Politix, ARROWS Youth Engagement Strategy, 13 Fires, Fearless R2W and Winnipeg Water Wednesday. Michael has served as president of North End Community Renewal Corporation, a board member for the Circle of Life Thunderbird House and is currently serving on the board for Marymound Inc. His committee work currently includes United Way of Winnipeg’s Council for Indigenous Relations and is an advisor to the Garden of Compassion initiative. Michael is known for his straight up and heartfelt style that will leave you moved, inspired and ready for action.
Margaret Rempel is a farmer from southeastern Manitoba, who enjoys meeting other farmers around the world who share in her passion for growing food. She owns and operates a mixed farm which includes 1600 acres of crop land, a hog enterprise as well as meat goats and pasture-raised chickens. Together with her late husband Ronald, she lived and worked as a community development volunteer with Mennonite Central Committee in northeast Brazil from 1975 to 1978. Margaret has been involved in agriculture policy development for several decades, including with such organizations as Keystone Agricultural Producers, MB Rural Adaptation Council, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, and MB Pork Council. She served on the Board of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank from 1997-2004, chairing the Board for the last four of those years. She has traveled extensively across Canada as well as in Central and South America, Europe, South Africa, India and Bangladesh. Imagining creative food production and food distribution possibilities continues to energize her global citizenship.
Pablo Felices-Luna was born and raised in Peru but came to Canada more than 25 years ago. He trained at the University of Victoria and York University. Like many theatre artists, he has worked in a number of disciplines: as a director, stage manager, technical director, production manager, translator, and as an artistic director. He started out by creating shows for small groups of 20-25 preschool age children, and moved on to work with companies like Rosenath Theatre and Theatre Beyond Words, as well as touring shows for young audiences with Young People’s Theatre, MTYP, Youtheatre. He also worked with youth through the Young Companies at Showboat Theatre and Theatre Orangeville, and through a play-devising program called Commotion. In his time at Carousel Players, he directed 15 different productions. He is particularly proud of the 7 new plays they created with 9 different playwrights. But what should you really know about Pablo? He loves his work, and cares deeply about making our experiences in theatre meaningful and transformative.
Kyra Moshtaghi Nia spends her days working on cancer prevention programs at the Canadian Cancer Society. In the evening she is a part-time student working towards her master’s in Public Administration. Somewhere in the middle she volunteers with the fair trade movement, as a board member of the Canadian Fair Trade Network and committee member for Fair Trade Winnipeg. She loves to be involved and has trouble saying no, as crazy as the days are she loves how they are always full of new experiences.

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Together: A workshop on global development
2016-09-01
The workshop coincided with stops that Together: an exhibition on global development made at university campuses across Manitoba and Ontario. Housed in a custom-built truck, Together is an interactive, bilingual experience for all ages, highlighting Canadian contributions to positive change around the world. Follow the exhibition’s journey and join the conversation on Twitter using #AllForChange.
Want to know more about Together? Watch this.
Event details:This event has taken place at the University of Winnipeg, Seneca College, and York University.

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This event was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada.

Continuing the RCT conversation: Assessing the evidence from Randomized Evaluations of Economic Interventions in Health
2016-06-13
Participants continued the RCT conversation with Aga Khan Foundation Canada as part of our Measuring Development Impact series. Featuring Thomas Chupein of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), this session presented the evidence and policy lessons that have emerged from more than 150 health evaluations conducted by J-PAL affiliated researchers. Topics include pricing of preventive health care products, behavioral nudges and use of incentives to encourage health-promoting behavior, interventions to improve health care provider performance, and opportunities for collaboration between J-PAL and the global health community.

Thomas Chupein is a Policy Manager at J-PAL and the Health Sector program manager. In these roles, he helps forge new research partnerships and conducts outreach with policymakers to catalyze the use of evidence from J-PAL evaluations. Prior to joining J-PAL, Thomas was Head of Research Initiatives for the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley, where he helped launch a program on behavioral economics in reproductive health. Previously, he worked as a data analyst for UNICEF in Bhutan, Nepal, and Thailand. Thomas holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Development Studies from UC Berkeley.

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Marking Milestones: AKFC's 2016 International Youth Fellows
2016-06-09
Participants joined us for refreshments in our char bagh, the garden courtyard in the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat, for a cultural celebration and a chance to connect with current fellows and program alumni.
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The Social Observatory: Adaptive Learning in Development Projects
2016-05-10
The Social Observatory has been working for five years with a $2 billion portfolio of livelihoods projects in India to improve their capacity to adapt. A team of economists, sociologists, behavioural scientists, and management information system specialists has been engaged in a constructive collaboration with operations staff to improve implementation on the frontlines.
On May 10, 2016, Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist, The World Bank, was in Ottawa and shared his work with the Social Observatory. Dr. Rao discussed this interdisciplinary approach to improve development impact. He highlighted findings from impact evaluations and in-depth long-term qualitative research to show the “how and why” of when livelihoods interventions succeed and fail. He also demonstrated a new method of Participatory-Tracking that allows communities to generate census data with which they can monitor their own progress, make better allocation decisions, and provide a source of information to engage with the government to improve public services.
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Vijayendra RaoLead Economist, Development Research Group
Vijayendra Rao is a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He integrates his training in economics with theories and methods from anthropology, sociology and political science to study the social, cultural, and political context of extreme poverty in developing countries. Dr. Rao has published on a variety of subjects that include dowries and domestic violence in India, the economics of celebrations, sex work in Calcutta, participatory development, village democracy and deliberation, and inter-disciplinary approaches to public policy. He co-edited Culture and Public Action, and History, Historians and Development Policy, and co-authored the 2006 World Development Report on Equity and Development. Most recently, with Ghazala Mansuri, he co-authored the World Bank’s Policy Research Report on Localizing Development: Does Participation Work?
Dr. Rao obtained a BA (Economics, Statistics, Sociology) from St. Xavier’s College – Bombay (now Mumbai), a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, was a post-doctoral fellow at the Economics Research Center and an Associate of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, and taught at the University of Michigan and Williams College before joining the World Bank’s Research Department in 1999. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and is a member of the Successful Societies Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), and affiliated with research institutes and NGOs in India, the US, and the UK.

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Launch of Together: An exhibition on Global Development
2016-04-28
Participants walked through a custom-built truck with 1,000 square feet of interactive exhibit space and explored how Canadians are driving positive change around the world.
In 2016 the exhibition traveled to communities across western and central Canada. But before the truck hit the road, we celebrated Together!

The program celebrated the role that Canada plays in global development and the importance of global citizenship, a core theme of the Together exhibition.
Four notable individuals shared their journeys towards global citizenship!

Ta’Kaiya Blaney –Award-winning Singer and Environmentalist

Derek Gent –Executive Director at Vancity Community Foundation

Andrea Reimer – Vancouver City Councillor
Nareena Switlo –Chief Operating Officer at Naledo Foods and Beverages and AKFC Speaker Bureau Volunteer

The evening was emceed by Kamil Karamali, TV and radio news reporter for CBC Vancouver
Launch Program:5:00 to 5:30 Participants arrived early and met others interested in global development at a networking reception5:30 to 6:30 Participants were inspired by four individuals who demonstrate global citizenship through their skills and passions 6:30 to 8:00 Participants were among the first in Western Canada to visit the Together exhibition and explored how Canadians are driving positive change around the world. The exhibition was parked at the Vancouver Public Library and guests were welcome to visit it before the event.
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Smart Global Development Conference
2016-04-13 - 2016-04-14
In developing countries, the potential for universities to contribute directly and substantively to improved development, growth and governance outcomes is arguably greatest. Despite that potential, higher education has received comparatively little support from the international development community over the past several decades – particularly in comparison to investments in primary education and basic health.
Watch the webcasts of the opening keynote by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada on Day 1, and the three plenaries on Day 2 featuring The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie.

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Global Economic and Climate Change along the Silk Road: Crisis in Central Asia and Afghanistan
2016-04-12
A profound economic crisis is gripping the region. The causes are diverse: decreasing oil and gas prices, an economic slowdown in China, the falling Russian Ruble, and for Afghanistan – even the withdrawal of NATO forces. Under such circumstances, households and national governments are scrambling to cope.
But the economy is not the sole global force challenging Central Asia and Afghanistan. In recent years, climate change has put growing pressure on this fragile and mountainous region. Rising temperatures, irregular rainfall, and increasingly devastating natural disasters are the new normal.
In a rapidly changing environment, what processes, policies, and plans are in place to help citizens and their governments to deal with these new global realities?
Participants joined Aga Khan Foundation Canada and Carleton University for a panel discussion on the future of Central Asia and Afghanistan. Speakers brought insights informed by decades of experience in the fields of economic development, public policy, and climate change. In addition Dr Bohdan Krawchenko and Dr Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt from the University of Central Asia reflected on lessons learned from the UCA’s Research and Public Policy Initiative, funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and AKFC, which sought to strengthen research capacity and evidence-based policy-making in Afghanistan and Central Asia.
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Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko
Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko received his doctorate from the University of Oxford and is an expert in Public Policy and Administration with decades of experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has held faculty positions at the University of Alberta, Harvard University, and the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland. Dr Krawchenko has served as Director of Policy Studies at the Council of Advisors to the Parliament of Ukraine, and was Founder and Director of the Institute of Public Administration and Local Government. He has also served as a consultant to the World Bank, OECD, and to the Secretary of State for the Government of Canada. During his career, he has achieved two honourary doctorates and has been awarded an Order of Merit from the President of Ukraine. Krawchenko joined the University of Central Asia in October 2004, where he currently serves as the Director General and continues to write and speak on public administration reform in Central Asia.
Margaret Skok
Margaret Skok has worked in several federal departments and agencies with a focus on international business, employment, natural resource sectors and security, contributing to Canada’s economic, trade and trade policy development. She has considerable experience in the public service, most prominently as Canada’s ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, with concurrent accreditation to the Kyrgyz Republic and to the Republic of Tajikistan. In December 2011, Margaret received a medal from the president of the Republic of Kazakhstan for her contribution to the country’s 20 years of independence. Margaret has also worked with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, consulted to the Canadian government, private companies, and universities on business development, bilateral agreements, and trade law and policies and training. Margaret Skok is a senior fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) where she is focusing on the major security challenges, as well as the governance and institutional architecture of Central Asia.
Dr Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt
Dr. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, geographer and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, is Director of the Mountain Societies Research Institute at the University of Central Asia (UCA) in the Kyrgyz Republic. Before joining UCA, he was Head of the Research Program at the World Agroforestry Centre East and Central Asia Office, and Professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Kunming, China. Previous affiliations were as Associate Professor with the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and as Senior Lecturer with the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany. He obtained his doctoral and postdoctoral degrees at Heidelberg University and has more than 30 years of research experience in mountainous areas of Asia. His research interests include forest-farming interactions, multifunctional landscapes, integrated land use systems, and land use change and livelihoods in mountains.

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Digital Dividends: Launch of the 2016 World Development Report
2016-03-22
The World Bank’s 2016 World Development Report, Digital Dividends, explores how development actors can harness digital technologies to improve the lives of the world’s poorest. Uwe Deichmann, co-director, World Development Report 2016, presented the report’s findings and was followed by presentations from individuals and organizations successfully leveraging digital technology for development.

This event was co-hosted by Aga Khan Foundation Canada, the International Development Research Centre, and Global Affairs Canada.

Resources:
Video: From Digital Divide to Digital Dividends
World Development Report 2016: Main Messages
World Development Report 2016: Overview
World Development Report 2016: Full Report

Uwe Deichmann Co-Director, World Development Report 2016, Development Economics and Chief EconomistUwe Deichmann is an economic geographer in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. His research interests are in the geographic aspects of development. His recent work has included issues of urban development, the role of infrastructure in promoting regional growth, and the impacts of natural hazards and global change on economic development. He has been a principal author of the World Development Report 2009 “Reshaping Economic Geography.” Prior to joining the World Bank he worked for the UN Environment Program and the UN Statistics Division. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Geography and Regional Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Saleem SayaniDirector, AKDN eHealth Resource CentreSaleem Sayani is an experienced Information Technology executive, program manager and strategic management consultant with over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions that drive innovation and business success. Recognizing the increasing value of technology as a strategic asset, he has successfully demonstrated the ability to champion modernization of business processes to create leaner organizations.
Saleem is currently serving as the Director of the Aga Khan Development Network eHealth Resource Centre (AKDN eHRC). In this role, Saleem leads the eHealth system and a portfolio of eHealth projects and services to deliver health care services and learning programmes in Central/South Asia and East Africa. He provides strategic direction and guidance for the Centre’s services and programme activities. Prior to joining AKDN eHRC, Saleem worked as Chief Information Officer in the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for the State of Maryland, USA.
Dr. Roxana BarrantesDr. Roxana Barrantes (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is General Director and Senior Researcher at Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and Professor at the Department of Economics of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She is a member of the Steering Committee of DIRSI, member of the Scientific Committee for the IDRC-supported PICTURE Project in Africa, member of the Advisory Committee for LACEEP (Latin America and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program), and Advisory Committee member of the Master’s Program in Business Law at PUCP. A former member of the Peruvian Telecommunications Regulator Board of Directors, Dr. Barrantes has served as Advisor and Consultant to other Regulatory Agencies in Peru, the Ombudsman Office, and IADB.
Helani GalpayaHelani Galpaya is CEO of LIRNEasia, a pro-poor, pro-market think tank working across the emerging Asia Pacific on ICT policy and regulatory issues. She assumed the CEO role in Jan 2013. Prior to that she was LIRNEasia’s Chief Operating Officer.
She researches, does consulting work and engages in public discourse on issue related to net neutrality, policy and regulatory barriers in Internet access, e-Government, broadband quality of service, and how knowledge and information disseminated via ICTs can improve inclusiveness SMMEs (small, medium and micro enterprises) in agriculture and micro-work markets. She has been working in Myanmar since 2013, and is currently carrying out an impact analysis of the mobile phone roll-out that is taking place.
Prior to LIRNEasia, she worked at the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka implementing e-Government projects. She was a management consultant at Booz&Co.(now Strategy&) in New York and has also worked at Citibank and Merrill Lynch in USA. She has a MS in Technology & Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA and a BA in Computer Science from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.

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In conversation with Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of the World Food Programme
2016-02-25
Listen to Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director of WFP, as she reflects on the challenges faced by humanitarian agencies working in protracted crises, and the opportunities presented by the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Humanitarian Summit.
Ms. Cousin is joined by Diane Jacovella, Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues and Development; Gillian Barth, CEO & President CARE Canada; Khalil Shariff, CEO Aga Khan Foundation Canada for an armchair discussion on how humanitarian development assistance is working to build resilience while addressing urgent needs — drawing on recent experience in Syria. Discussion moderated by: Omar Sachedina, Ottawa Correspondent, CTV National.
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Ertharin Cousin – Executive Director of the World Food Programme
Ertharin Cousin began her tenure as the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme on 5 April 2012. Ms Cousin brings more than twenty-five years of national and international non-profit, government, and corporate leadership experience focusing on hunger, food, and resilience strategies. Cousin guides the World Food Programme in meeting urgent food needs while championing longer-term solutions to food insecurity and hunger.
As the leader of the world’s largest humanitarian organization with approximately 13,500 staff serving over 90 million beneficiaries in 80 countries across the world, she is an exceptional advocate for improving the lives of hungry people worldwide, and travels extensively to raise awareness of food insecurity and chronic malnutrition.
In 2009, Ertharin Cousin was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, and head of the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies in Rome. During her nearly three years as the chief U.S. diplomatic voice for famine relief and hunger solutions, Cousin helped guide U.S. and international policy around some of the most devastating and life-threatening situations in the world. She advocated for aid strategies that integrate a transition from relief to development, including following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and for country-led sustainable agriculture programmes, particularly in the aftermath of the 2010 flooding in Pakistan and in response to the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa.
As the U.S. Representative in Rome, she played a significant role in advocating for improved collaboration between, and promoting gender parity and mainstreaming in the operations of the three Rome-based food and agriculture agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agriculture Development and the World Food Programme. During her tenure, she actively participated in reforming the Committee on World Food Security, enlarging the multi-stakeholder platform and helping to introduce a results-based framework. In 2011, she also assumed the presidency of the International Development Law Organization’s Assembly of Parties.
Cousin worked in the Administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton for four years, including serving as White House Liaison to the State Department, and received a White House appointment to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.
Cousin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Feeding America (then known as America’s Second Harvest), the largest domestic hunger organization in the United States. She led the organization’s response to Hurricane Katrina, an effort that resulted in the distribution of various relief supplies, including food, to those in need across the Gulf Coast region of the United States.
Cousin has significant background in the retail food sector, leading government communications and community affairs for two large U.S. grocery chains, Albertsons Foods and Jewell Foods. While working for Albertsons, she served as President and Chair of the company’s corporate foundation, managing the organization’s philanthropic activities.
Cousin is a native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Georgia School of Law. She is a published author and accomplished speaker on food insecurity and chronic malnutrition. She is based in Rome, Italy.
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Saving Heritage: Preserving History in the Developing World (2016 Phillips Memorial Lecture)
2016-02-24
Despite these barriers, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture works to revitalize culture and protect heritage, including projects to restore historic structures; create and rehabilitate public spaces, parks, and gardens; and support community-based projects to spur social, economic, and cultural development. On February 24 2016, Christophe Bouleau of AKTC’s Historic Cities Programme discussed historic sites in the context of development, how AKTC works with communities, and how an integrated development approach could be beneficial in Canada. Click on the photo to see photos from the evening below:

About Christophe Bouleau:
Christophe Bouleau holds a graduate degree from the Department of Architecture in the Swiss Institute of Technology of Lausanne and has specialized in monument preservation at the Centre des Hautes Etudes de Chaillot in Paris. His career began in historic monuments preservation in France and Italy, and he has worked in archaeological and monument conservation projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, and Egypt. Since joining AKTC’s Historic Cities Programme in 2001, he has been stationed in Cairo in charge of the Darb al-Ahmar district monuments conservation program, and contributed to architectural documentation and conservation projects in Aleppo and Damascus, Syria. Since 2008, he has been based at AKTC headquarters in Geneva as a Conservation Project Officer, overseeing conservation and architectural programmes in West Africa (earthen architecture rehabilitation) and providing technical assistance to the wider Aga Khan Development Network’s conservation and adaptive re-use projects.

Heritage Ottawa:Heritage Ottawa promotes the awareness, understanding, and appreciation of Ottawa’s wonderful built heritage and distinctive cultural places. Their popular Lecture Series, Sunday Walking Tours, and Workshops are a great way to learn more about Ottawa’s local history and heritage while meeting people who share similar interests.
Heritage Ottawa advocates for the preservation of Ottawa’s distinctive built heritage and cultural landscapes. They speak out for and defend worthy heritage properties that are at risk of inappropriate intervention or loss. The Billings Estate, the East Block of the Parliament Buildings, and the Aberdeen Pavilion are just some of the properties that have benefitted from Heritage Ottawa’s advocacy efforts.

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Measuring Development Impact: Can Randomized Control Trials transform development?
2016-02-04
Demonstrating impact and understanding causality is a struggle that many international development organizations face. From assessing the effectiveness of bednets in preventing malaria, to understanding why immunization programs sometimes yield mixed results, the challenge of proving why certain interventions work and others do not lies at the heart of every impact evaluation.
On February 4, 2016, Iqbal Dhaliwal, Deputy Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) discussed how Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) are changing the way many organizations measure and evaluate impact, in the first event of Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s series Measuring Development Impact.
Hailed as the gold standard by some, RCTs have become the subject of lively debate amongst development practitioners, economists and policy makers. Mr. Dhaliwal’s presentation drew upon seminal studies in health and education to address many of the concerns raised by this approach, outlining the advantages and limitations of RCT evaluations.
“In development we do not have a shortage of solutions, but rather we have a multitude of solutions,” Dhaliwal observed, “the question is, how to choose the one [that works].”
Since 2003, J-PAL has been championing the use of RCTs and randomized evaluations to test and improve the effectiveness of programs and policies aimed at reducing poverty. With over 685 evaluations in 64 countries, J-PAL has developed a large evidence base, which has been used to inform development efforts around the world. “Think of evidence (RCTs) as an ally rather than a threat … as a tool in your arsenal to get better, and grapple with this problem of poverty whether it is here or in developing countries.”
Watch Mr. Dhaliwal’s presentation, “Can Randomized Control Trials transform development?” to learn more about RCTs, when they should be used, what questions they can answer, and how the connect to key trends in international social experiments.

Iqbal Dhaliwal is the Deputy Director of J-PAL and the global head of Policy. He works with policymakers in governments, development organizations, foundations and NGOs to disseminate the policy implications of research, identify new field evaluations, and implement the scale-up of successful programs. He coordinates J-PAL’s eight sector programs and management practices across the six regional offices. He is a member of the Board of Directors’ Executive Committee that sets J-PAL’s overall strategy and provides guidance and oversight to staff worldwide. He also serves as Scientific Director for J-PAL South Asia, Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Government Partnership Initiative, and is an advisory board member of Evidence Action. From 2011-2014, he was Co-Chair of J-PAL’s Governance Initiative.
Before joining J-PAL in 2009, Iqbal was a director in the Economic Analysis practice of a consulting firm in Boston where he managed numerous engagements involving antitrust issues, regulation, and strategy. Earlier, he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) where he worked on many policy issues during stints as a deputy secretary in a state government, director of a statewide welfare department, and managing director (CEO) of a publicly owned company.
He has a B.A. (Honors) in Economics from University of Delhi, an M.A. in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, and an MPA (Development Studies) from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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La diplomatie numérique
2015-11-19
19 novembre 2015 – La diplomatie numérique, parfois appelée « twiplomatie » (un amalgame de Twitter et diplomatie), désigne l’utilisation des technologies numériques pour entrer en contact avec des populations étrangères en vue d’atteindre des objectifs internationaux. À l’échelle mondiale, Facebook, Twitter, Qzone et Snapchat comptent plus d’un milliard d’utilisateurs quotidiens. La connectivité numérique a rendu le monde plus petit et a ainsi changé la vie quotidienne de milliards de personnes. Des agriculteurs des régions rurales du Bangladesh ont ainsi accès aux marchés, les femmes et les enfants de la Tanzanie ont accès à des services de santé à distance, et l’accès à l’information s’est amélioré partout dans le monde, rendant ainsi les gouvernements plus redevables envers leurs citoyens.

La diplomatie numérique, parfois appelée « twiplomatie » (un amalgame de Twitter et diplomatie), désigne l’utilisation des technologies numériques pour entrer en contact avec des populations étrangères en vue d’atteindre des objectifs internationaux. À l’échelle mondiale, Facebook, Twitter, Qzone et Snapchat comptent plus d’un milliard d’utilisateurs quotidiens. La connectivité numérique a rendu le monde plus petit et a ainsi changé la vie quotidienne de milliards de personnes. Des agriculteurs des régions rurales du Bangladesh ont ainsi accès aux marchés, les femmes et les enfants de la Tanzanie ont accès à des services de santé à distance, et l’accès à l’information s’est amélioré partout dans le monde, rendant ainsi les gouvernements plus redevables envers leurs citoyens.
Ces développements ne se sont pas limités aux individus. De plus en plus, les gouvernements et d’autres instances utilisent ces plateformes pour parler directement aux citoyens. Certains ciblent une action directe. Par exemple, des ONG internationales comme le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge utilisent des mots-clics Twitter pour acheminer des dons vers des crises humanitaires particulières. D’autres formes de diplomatie numérique sont plus larges et concernent davantage des positions de politique étrangère. En guise d’exemple, le gouvernement du Canada s’est adressé directement au peuple iranien par Twitter.
Il ne fait aucun doute que la connectivité et l’utilisation de la diplomatie numérique sont des moteurs de changement social, ce qui entraîne des conséquences négatives. En effet, la diffusion d’idées et de sentiments a mené à des perturbations sociales, de la violence et de la radicalisation.
La diplomatie numérique est-elle réellement la clé d’un avenir meilleur, comme l’affirment certains? Quels sont certains des risques latents d’une telle approche ouverte? Quels avantages offre-t-elle? Et comment le Canada pourrait-il l’utiliser à bon escient pour avancer vers ses objectifs de politique étrangère?
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John Stackhouse, Vice-président principal , Bureau du chef de la direction, RBC, ancien rédacteur en chef du Globe and Mail
Taylor Owen, professeur de médias numériques et d’affaires internationales à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, chercheur principal au Centre Tow pour le journalisme numérique à la Columbia School of Journalism, et fondateur d’OpenCanada.org
Martha McLean, Directeur adjoint , communications en ligne et de l’engagement , des affaires Global Canada
Sébastien Beaulieu, Directeur général , Relations Moyen -Orient, des affaires Global Canada et ancien ambassadeur du Canada en Tunisie
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L’Afghanistan découvert : La journaliste May Jeong raconte les histoires de l’Afghanistan de l’intérieur
2015-11-06 - 2015-11-09
6 et 9 novembre 2015 – Il y a trois ans, la journaliste indépendante primée May Jeong a fait ses valises au Canada et est partie s’installer à Kaboul afin de découvrir des histoires qui seraient autrement passées inaperçues en Afghanistan. Depuis, ses reportages sont parus dans The Globe and Mail, The Guardian et The New York Times. Ils racontent des histoires remplies d’espoir de personnes et d’organisations qui contribuent au progrès en Afghanistan.

Les participants se sont joints à nous pour cette présentation et séance de questions-réponses et pour en apprendre plus sur l’histoire de Mme Jeong, sur les raisons pour lesquelles elle prévoit rester en Afghanistan et sur ses prédictions par rapport à ce pays et ses habitants.
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May Jeong

May Jeong est une journaliste indépendante primée basée à Kaboul, en Afghanistan. Ses articles sont parus dans des publications comme The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times et Marie Claire, entre autres. Son travail journalistique sur le prix de la guerre en Afghanistan pour le Financial Times lui a valu l’édition 2014 du prix « Best in Business Award » de la Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Mme Jeong a été finaliste aux Prix du magazine canadien, dans la catégorie des meilleurs nouveaux auteurs de magazine, pour son article de 2012 paru dans le Toronto Life, qui exposait un scandale de viol de groupe dans une communauté d’immigrants à Toronto. Avant de se lancer à la pige, elle a travaillé dans les salles de nouvelles du Globe and Mail, de Reuters et du Daily Star à Beyrouth, au Liban. Elle a effectué des reportages en Afghanistan, au Pakistan, en Inde, au Liban, en Indonésie et en Ouganda. En 2015, elle a remporté une bourse journalistique de l’International Women’s Media Foundation.
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La Fondation Aga Khan Canada (la Fondation) est un organisme de développement international sans but lucratif qui œuvre en Asie et en Afrique pour trouver des solutions durables aux problèmes complexes qui sous-tendent la pauvreté dans le monde. La Fondation se concentre sur un nombre restreint de défis de développement dans les domaines de la santé, de l’éducation, du développement rural et du renforcement de la société civile. Au Canada, la Fondation recueille des fonds, établit des partenariats avec des institutions canadiennes et favorise la discussion et l’apprentissage autour d’enjeux liés au développement international. Établie en 1980, la Fondation est un organisme de bienfaisance enregistré au Canada et un membre du regroupement international Réseau Aga Khan de développement.

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Executive Masterclass – Roshan: Light At The End Of The Tunnel In Afghanistan
2015-11-06
Roshan Telecom, established in 2003 at the height of the Afghan war, has been widely cited as an exemplary model of corporate social responsibility, bringing mobile connectivity, economic opportunity, healthcare, and education to Afghanistan. The story of Roshan is one of unexpected transformation: of a private sector enterprise contributing to the social and economic development of Afghanistan through mobile connectivity. And the lessons drawn from the Roshan experience have significant value well beyond Afghanistan.
The masterclass aimed to engage key Canadian stakeholders in a dynamic, interactive exploration of the Roshan experience as a means to inspire new thinking on the potential of private enterprise to spur transformative social and economic development, even in fragile contexts. It further provided a particular opportunity to examine the critical role that communications technology can play in supporting social and economic development globally – especially in remote or marginalized communities.
The Executive Masterclass used the 2010 Harvard Business School case study, Roshan: Light at the end of the tunnel in Afghanistan to enable participants to actively explore the successes, challenges and operating environment that Roshan had to navigate.
The masterclass was facilitated by Shawn A. Cole from Harvard Business School and Karim Khoja, CEO of Roshan, who provided additional insights, perspectives on evolving challenges and opportunities, not only in Afghanistan, but in other developing and emerging economies.
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Karim Khoja: Chief Executive Officer, Roshan Telecom, AfghanistanKarim Khoja has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including starting and managing extremely successful GSM companies in Pakistan, Poland, Croatia, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Under his leadership, Roshan has grown to be Afghanistan’s market leader, with more than six and a half million customers. Mr. Khoja started his GSM career as CEO for Mobilink in Pakistan, and then launched Era GSM in Poland. He then went on to spin out the mobile company, T Mobile, from the incumbent Croatia Telecom.
Over the course of the last eleven years, Mr. Khoja has dedicated his time to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) to bring competition and best practices to the telecommunication industry in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. He has focused not only on financial results, but also on how technology can be used to change lives. Recently AKFED has also expanded its operations in Africa, where Mr. Khoja serves on the Board of SMART Telecom.
Mr. Khoja serves on the Board of several international companies. He is the Chairman of the Afghan Investment Climate facility (Harakat), a £30m fund to encourage private enterprise, an advisor to the GSMA Development Fund and, until a year ago, an Associate Board Member of the Legatum Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shawn A. Cole: John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolShawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services and social enterprise. Much of his research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets. His recent research focuses on designing and delivering advice and education over mobile phones, with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management.
He has worked in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam. He is an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. He is on the board of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as the co-chair for research. Before joining the Harvard Business School, Professor Cole worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the economic research department. He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve’s Community Development Research Advisory Council, serves as an external advisor to the Gates Foundation, and was the chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association, a non-profit educational organization.
He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from Cornell University. His work on insurance earned the 2015 “Shin Research Excellence Award;” in 2015 he was also named given a “Faculty Pioneer Award” from the Aspen Institute.

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Roshan: Canada’s Legacy in Afghanistan
2015-11-05
It’s the country’s largest investor, and it made Fortune’s first ever Change the World list of businesses making an impact. By offering mobile money transfers, the company extends financial services to the 97% of Afghans who can’t access banks. It also supports telemedicine applications, allowing doctors in remote areas to diagnose patients and even perform surgery. And Afghan youth, who make up the majority of the population, are using mobile phones to find their voice through social media.
Spur and Aga Khan Foundation Canada invited Roshan CEO and Canadian native Karim Khoja to a discussion of the mobile tech sector in Afghanistan. The event was moderated by May Jeong, an award-winning freelance writer based in Afghanistan.
Spur’s free festival opener took place on Thursday, November 5th, at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat. It was followed by a public reception. This event was undertaken with financial support from Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada.
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Karim Khoja
Karim Khoja, Chief Executive Officer of Roshan, has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including starting and managing extremely successful GSM companies in Pakistan, Poland, Croatia, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Under his leadership, Roshan has grown to be Afghanistan’s market leader, with more than six and a half million customers. Mr. Khoja started his GSM career as CEO for Mobilink in Pakistan, and then launched Era GSM in Poland. He then went on to spin out the mobile company, T Mobile, from the incumbent Croatia Telecom.
Over the course of the last eleven years, Mr. Khoja has dedicated his time to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) to bring competition and best practices to the telecommunication industry in Afghanistan and Tajikistan. He has focused not only on financial results, but also on how technology can be used to change lives.
Mr. Khoja serves on the Board of several international companies. Recently AKFED has also expanded its operations in Africa where Mr. Khoja serves on the Board of SMART Telecom. He is the Chairman of the Afghan Investment Climate facility (Harakat), a £30m fund to encourage private enterprise, an advisor to the GSMA Development Fund and until a year ago a Associate Board Member of the Legatum Center at MIT.
May Jeong

May Jeong is an awardwinning freelance writer based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her work has been published in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, the Financial Times and Marie Claire among others. Her reporting on the cost of war in Afghanistan for the Financial Times won her the 2014 Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ Best in Business Award.
May was a finalist for the Canadian National Magazine Award in the Best New Magazine Writer category for her 2012 Toronto Life article, which exposed a gang rape scandal in an immigrant community in Toronto. Before freelancing, she worked in newsrooms at The Globe and Mail, Reuters and The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon. May has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Lebanon, Indonesia and Uganda. She is a 2015 International Women’s Media Foundation reporting fellow.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada:
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) is a non-profit international development agency, working in Asia and Africa to find sustainable solutions to the complex problems causing global poverty. AKFC concentrates on a small number of specific development challenges in health, education, rural development and civil society. In Canada, AKFC raises funds, builds partnerships with Canadian institutions, and promotes discussion and learning on international development issues. Established in 1980, AKFC is a registered Canadian charity and an agency of the worldwide Aga Khan Development Network.
Spur Festival
Spur is a national festival of politics, art and ideas and is a catalyst for change in Canada.
Through nationally relevant and locally nuanced discussions, presentations and performances, the festival seeks to spur its participants to action on issues affecting Canadians. Feisty, multi-partisan, forward-looking, and solution-driven, this national railway of ideas will provide Canada with vital new cultural infrastructure for the 21st century.
Founded in 2013, the festival has already grown from three to five Canadian cities, with plans for further expansion across the country. Produced by the Literary Review of Canada in partnership with Diaspora Dialogues, Spur prides itself on its community partnerships, cultural connections and a focus on accessibility and diversity.

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The Audacity of Beauty: 30 Years in Haiti through the Lens of Maggie Steber
2015-11-01
Photo: “Mother’s Funeral” by Maggie Steber
In this special event series, Maggie shared her approach to photography, lessons learned during a career spanning more than 30 years and 66 countries, and what keeps drawing her back to Haiti.

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Maggie’s online project on Haiti: The Audacity of Beauty

Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer who has worked in 66 countries. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project.
For over three decades, Steber has worked in Haiti. Aperture published her monograph, DANCING ON FIRE. In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring an exhibition in five cities. Steber has served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer and as the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing projects that won a Pulitzer and were twice finalists for the award. She served as a jurist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize awards. Her work is included in the Library of Congress and The Richter Library among others, and she has exhibited internationally. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine.
Steber teaches workshops internationally including at the World Press Joop Swart Master Classes, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops, and the Obscura Photo Festival.

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Graphic stories, graphic novels: Photojournalist Marc Ellison on pushing the boundaries of digital storytelling
2015-09-22
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Listen to this podcast, featuring Marc and other journalists who are using graphic novels for non-fiction reporting: Are comics breaking into the mainstream for journalism?
Marc Ellison:
Marc Ellison is an award-winning journalist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Currently Marc is a data journalist for the BBC, and a freelance photojournalist. He has produced multimedia work from Canada, Mali, Mozambique, South Sudan, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.
Marc has a diverse background with a BA (Hons.) in History, an MSc in Computer Science, and a Masters of Journalism from Carleton University. With this unique skill-set, Marc bridges the disciplines of journalism and IT, and is passionate about building online databases, coding webscrapers, and using freedom of information laws to access data sets.
His other journalism experience includes work for 60 Minutes, Al Jazeera English, BBC, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, CBC, The Guardian, VICE magazine, MTV Canada, Canadian Geographic, IDRC, Uganda’s Mega FM, South Sudan’s The New Nation, OpenFile Ottawa and Vancouver, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Vancouver Observer.
Marc won a Canadian Association of Journalists award for his work with female Ugandan child soldiers, the inaugural Canadian Open Data Innovation Award for his ‘Lobby Watch’ series in the Toronto Star, an IDRC Award for International Journalism, the Martin Newland Award for Print Reporting, and the World Bank’s 2013 Picture Inequality photo competition.
In 2015, he became one of the inaugural recipients of the Fellowship for International Development Reporting, supported by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the Canadian Association of Journalists, to report on child marriage in Tanzania for The Toronto Star.
He has covered a broad range of topics: the reintegration of female child soldiers in Uganda; bed bugs in social housing; refugees in South Sudan; missing First Nations women in Canada; the prostitution highway in Mozambique; reality radio shows in Mali; gay rights; crisis mapping; mining; child soldiers living in Canada; African cyber-crime; crime; municipal and federal elections; education in Indian schools; and even burlesque dancing.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada:
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) is a non-profit international development agency, working in Asia and Africa to find sustainable solutions to the complex problems causing global poverty. AKFC concentrates on a small number of specific development challenges in health, education, rural development and civil society. In Canada, AKFC raises funds, builds partnerships with Canadian institutions, and promotes discussion and learning on international development issues. Established in 1980, AKFC is a registered Canadian charity and an agency of the worldwide Aga Khan Development Network.
To help Canadians develop a greater understanding of complex global issues, AKFC works to promote informed, in-depth media coverage of the developing world.
AKFC regularly hosts events on topics of media and development with a range of audiences across the country, and works with individual journalists to support reporting on international development. The Young Professionals in Media fellowship launches the careers of young Canadian journalists, through eight-month reporting placements with Nation Media Group, East Africa’s leading media house. For more experienced journalists, AKFC collaborates with the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) to manage and support the Fellowship for International Development Reporting. This program provides journalists with $25,000 in funding to undertake reporting projects on developing world issues.

In partnership with Humber College – Lakeshore Campus.
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Together: a workshop on global development
2015-09-01 - 2015-10-31
September and October 2015 – Aga Khan Foundation Canada invited Canadians to join a conversation about Canada’s role in reducing global poverty. This participatory workshop explored effective solutions to some of the most pressing challenges communities are facing at home and globally. Participants left the workshop with ideas on how they could take action as global citizens.

The workshop coincided with stops that Together: an exhibition on global development was making at university campuses across Southern Ontario. Housed in a custom-built truck, Together is an interactive, bilingual experience for all ages, highlighting Canadian contributions to positive change around the world.
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This event has taken place at Humber College, the University of Toronto Scarborough, Trent University, the University of Guelph, and the University of Waterloo.

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To learn more about the Together exhibition, including where it is going next, email exhibit@akfc.ca or visit www.akfc.ca/together.

This event is undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development.

Canada Day at Pier 21
2015-06-30 - 2015-07-02
June 30 – July 2, 2015 – On Canada Day, participants celebrated how Canadians are driving global change. Together: An exhibition on global development rolled into Halifax, stopping at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 for three days – Tuesday, June 30 to Thursday, July 2.

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Together: An exhibition on global development
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Two inspiring global citizens
Together transports visitors around the globe with powerful photography and videos, an interactive world map, a global citizen skills quiz, and unique objects from global development projects in Africa and Asia. Visitors enjoyed meeting AKFC program officers who have seen how Canadian efforts are improving lives.
Dr. Fawad Akbari, Senior Program Manager, AKFC – Dr. Akbari discussed health initiatives in Afghanistan, including construction of the new Bamyan Hospital.
Hilary Clauson, Program Officer, AKFC – Hilary discussed how strengthening education programs in East Africa supports the development of future leaders in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Learn more about Together
To learn more about the Together exhibition, including where it is going next, email exhibit@akfc.ca or visit akfc.ca/together.

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