Advancing Gender Equality through Civil Society – Foundations for Health and Empowerment
Advancing Gender Equality through Civil Society (AGECS) is a component of the Foundations for Health and Empowerment (F4HE) program.
Women, adolescents, and young children often lack access to the knowledge, services, and support that they need to protect and promote their health, including the engagement of men as supportive partners and parents in addressing these issues. By further developing the capacity of women- and adolescent-led civil society groups to become more engaged in the health needs of their communities, AGECS will enhance the ability of community structures, institutions, and leaders to respond to gender and social barriers and foster inclusive governance.
Safeguarding Policy
AKFC is committed to safeguarding, which means it promotes respectful relations with and between all staff, associates, beneficiaries, and wider communities with whom it works, and takes all reasonable measures to prevent harm, including all forms of exploitation, abuse, bullying, harassment, and abuse of power that may arise from contact with its staff, programs or operations.
The Aga Khan Rural Support Program Final Evaluation of Enhancing Employability and Leadership for Youth (EELY) Project
EELY was a six-year (April 2011 to March 2017), CAD $19.0 million project designed to increase engagement of male and female youth (between the ages of 18 and 35 years) as productive and full members of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral (GBC) through two complementary components: youth employability and youth engagement and leadership.
A Gendered Assessment of the EELY Programme in Gilgit, Baltistan and Chitral
EELY was a six-year (April 2011 to March 2017), CAD $19.0 million project designed to increase engagement of male and female youth (between the ages of 18 and 35 years) as productive and full members of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral (GBC) through two complementary components: youth employability and youth engagement and leadership.
Enhancing Employability and Leadership for Youth (EELY)- Final Report
EELY was a six-year (April 2011 to March 2017), CAD $19.0 million project designed to increase engagement of male and female youth (between the ages of 18 and 35 years) as productive and full members of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral (GBC) through two complementary components: youth employability and youth engagement and leadership.
Industry Advisory Groups: Insights from the Aswan Skills Development Program
Employment-seeking young women and men in Egypt face numerous obstacles, including mismatched skills and inadequate preparation for and information about labour market demands. They lack access to affordable training to develop marketable skills, employer contacts, and entrepreneurship training that are directly linked to market requirements. Few opportunities exist for workplace-based mentorship and coaching, making it hard for new entrants in many technical occupations. To prepare young women and men for the workforce, it is imperative that training institutions develop programs that are high quality, market-driven, gender-sensitive, and responsive to emerging trends and opportunities. To address a number of these challenges, Aga Khan Foundation and Om Habibeh Foundation in Egypt undertook the formation and engagement of Industry Advisory Groups in their implementation of the Aswan Skills Development Program (ASDP), an initiative to improve the livelihoods of young women and men in Aswan and Kom Ombo districts in Upper Egypt.
Public Engagement and Professional Learning: Executive Summary
The Public Engagement and Professional Learning (PE&PL) project was a five-year initiative within the Partnership for Advancing Human Development in Africa and Asia (PAHDAA), funded jointly by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and Global Affairs Canada. The PE&PL project was designed to contribute to the overarching PAHDAA outcome of improved human development by increasing engagement of targeted Canadians in activities that support human development.
Public Engagement and Professional Learning: End-line Study Report
The Public Engagement and Professional Learning (PE&PL) project was a five-year initiative within the Partnership for Advancing Human Development in Africa and Asia (PAHDAA), funded jointly by Aga Khan Foundation Canada and Global Affairs Canada. The PE&PL project was designed to contribute to the overarching PAHDAA outcome of improved human development by increasing engagement of targeted Canadians in activities that support human development.
Canadian Media and the Developing World
Canadians’ perceptions of international issues are shaped in significant ways by their media environment: the news we read in print and online, watch on television, and listen to on radio; the stories and posts we swipe and share on social media; and the many forms of popular culture we consume. Yet, the precise nature of this media discourse (i.e. the topics, voices, perspectives, and stories that comprise it) is elusive.
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) commissioned a research team from Carleton University and Université Laval to examine these and related questions. Co-lead investigators Josh Greenberg (Carleton) and Colette Brin (Laval) were tasked to develop a research strategy that would provide a comprehensive analysis of Canadian English and French news coverage.
AKFC Summer Playlist 2017
Our work touches the lives of people from diverse backgrounds. Our holistic approach to development means ordinary people are doing extraordinary things in their own communities, from crowded cities to remote mountain villages, to lift themselves up. These are some of their stories.
Feeding a hunger for solutions in rural Tajikistan
The challenge: food insecurity in an increasingly fragile environment.
High rates of poverty and malnutrition plague the remote communities along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan. While the region is one of the world’s greatest storehouses of biodiversity, low agricultural productivity and chronic food insecurity remain significant barriers to development.
Available in English only. / Disponible en anglais seulement.
Women’s Economic Empowerment in Practice: Addressing Gendered Barriers to Access and Success
Case studies from a roundtable held in November 2016.
Available in English only. / Disponible en anglais seulement.
Smart Global Development Conference Outcomes Report
Smart Global Development Conference Outcomes Report: Executive Summary
Smart Global Development Conference
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.
A conversation with Dr. Robert E. Black and special guests
Reducing hidden hunger – a chronic lack of essential vitamins and minerals – is vital not only to individual child development, but to building strong, healthy societies for the future. That was the message of esteemed child health researcher Dr. Robert E. Black, at the Nutrition on the Table: Micronutrients and Global Child Survival panel discussion on September, 2012.
Strengthening Communities, Saving Lives
Child mortality can be significantly reduced by focusing interventions on the poorest of the poor, particularly in rural areas, says Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, an award-winning researcher, prolific author, and senior medical educator at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan.
Dr. Bhutta spoke to more than 100 guests gathered at the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat on December 10. He highlighted the importance of interventions which reach the most impoverished members of society – who often lack access to basic health care – through a community-based approach, such as linking traditional birth attendants with trained community health workers.
The importance of the first 1,000 days
Dr. Lye, the inaugural Executive Director of the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development at the University of Toronto, highlights the importance of the first 1,000 days in a child’s life in establishing trajectories in health, learning and social functioning as an adult.
Virtual Health, Healthy Reality: Exploring eHealth
A growing number of practitioners are exploring eHealth – leveraging advances in communications technology to strengthen health systems across the globe. Aiming to promote improved health service provision, especially in difficult-to-access rural and remote communities, these innovations have resulted in a suite of programs from health messages delivered to mobile phones to video conferencing between doctors on different continents.
Measuring Quality of Life
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) works across Africa and Asia with a unifying, overarching goal: to improve quality of life. But what exactly does this mean? How does one define quality of life – let alone measure it? Participants joined Dr. Nazneen Kanji, Director of the Quality of Life Assessment Program, for a revealing conversation on the AKDN’s methods and tools used in countries as diverse as Afghanistan and Mali.
