For nearly four decades, we have partnered with the Government of Canada, Canadian institutions, and individual Canadians on hundreds of programs to tackle the root causes of poverty and inequality.
We undertake these efforts with the generous support of tens of thousands of individual Canadians and Canada’s private sector through World Partnership Walk and World Partnership Golf. Funds raised through these initiatives go directly to support our programs.
Together, we have improved quality of life for millions of people across Africa and Asia. We have also engaged Canadians on critical global issues and provided meaningful opportunities for individuals and institutions to contribute to Canada’s development priorities.
We invest funds from Canada and Canadians in our work overseas – leveraging the $1 billion annually that the wider Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) devotes to promote development in Africa and Asia. We also draw on the expertise and resources of the AKDN, including highly skilled local staff who can deliver programs and help monitor progress to ensure meaningful results and effective use of resources.
Explore our current and recently completed programs below.
Programs are listed by start date, with the newest programs at the top. Our current portfolio of programs reaches more than 4 million people.
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Current Programs
2022 – 2027
International Development Education and Awareness (IDEA)
Location: Canada
Reach: 5,000 educators and 1,360,000 youth
Budget: $6.1 million CAD (Global Affairs Canada: $5.8 million; AKFC: $300,000)
2021 – 2026
Broadening Economic & Social Transformation for Women’s Economic Empowerment & Recovery (BEST4WEER)
Location: Pakistan
Reach: 566,097 people, including 494,856 women and adolescent girls
Budget: $20.16 million (Global Affairs Canada: $17.41 million, AKFC: $2.75 million)
2021 – 2023
Accelerating Women Climate Entrepreneurs (AWCE)
Location: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria
Reach: 6,325 people (2,742 women)
Budget: $2.1 million (Global Affairs Canada: $2 million; ANDE, WUSC, and AKFC: $100,000)
2020 – 2027
Foundations for Education and Empowerment (F4EE)
Location: Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda
Reach: 1.8 million people (952,641 F, 942,391 M)
Budget: $57.6 million (Global Affairs Canada: $49 million, AKFC: $8.6 million)
2020 – 2027
Foundations for Health and Empowerment (F4HE)
Location: Afghanistan, India, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan
Reach: 1.08 million people (612,875F 466,873 M)
Budget: $67.3 million (Global Affairs Canada: $49 million, AKFC: $18.3 million)
2019 – 2024
Adolescent Girls’ Education in Crisis Initiative (AGENCI)
Location: Uganda, South Sudan, Syria
Reach: 148,218 adolescent girls and female youth aged 10-24
Budget: $17.1 million (Global Affairs Canada: $15,987,691; AKFC: $756,000; WUSC: $433,340)
2018 – 2023
Strengthening Partnerships to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Adolescents in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (SPARC)
Location: Mozambique
Reach: 449,500 people (234,600 women and adolescent girls; 214,900 men and adolescent boys)
Budget: $21.9 million (Global Affairs Canada: $18.9 million; AKFC: $3 million)
2018 – 2023
Integrated Newborn Care Kit (iNCK)
Location: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Reach: 37,000 pregnant women
Budget: $2 million (Grand Challenges Canada: $1 million; AKFC: $1 million)
Recently Closed
2021 – 2022
Educating for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Location: Canada
Reach: 200 educators and 10,000 students
Budget: $100,000 (Employment and Social Development Canada)
2020 – 2022
COVID-19 Innovation and Research Project (CIRP)
Location: Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Syria, Kenya, Tanzania
Reach: 5,390 (2,672 F, 2,718 M) users are anticipated to participate in the research studies
Budget: $800,000 (IDRC: $654,000; AKFC: $146,000)
2017 – 2022
Improving Early Child Development and Wellbeing in Refugee and Marginalized Communities (CDMC)
Location: Kenya
Reach: This is a research project with no direct beneficiaries.
Budget: $2 million (International Development Research Centre: $1 million; AKFC: $1 million)
2018 – 2021
Scaling Up Affordable, Quality, and Contextually Relevant Preschool Provision in Kenya (MECP)
Location: Kenya
Reach: 10,000 children aged 4 to 6 (5,000 girls and 5,000 boys)
Budget: $2 million (Grand Challenges Canada: $1 million; AKFC: $1 million)
2018 – 2021
Teeko+
Location: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Reach: 23,275 children
Budget: $999,104 (GCC: $499,123; AKFC: $499,981)
2018 – 2019
Assessment of Different Implementation Models of Health and Health-related Sustainable Development Goals (IM-SDG)
Location: Global
Reach: This is a research project with no direct beneficiaries.
Budget: $560,000 (International Development Research Centre: $280,000; AKFC: $280,000)
2017 – 2020
Pathways to Innovation: Strengthening Mathematics, Science, and Economic Policy Capacity in Afghanistan and Central Asia (P2I)
Location: Afghanistan, Tajikistan
Reach: 51,175 people
Budget: $2.2 million (International Development Research Centre: $1.5 million; AKFC: $500,000; Ministry of Finance, Afghanistan: $200,000)
2017 – 2021
Improving Access to Maternal and Newborn Health in Mwanza, Tanzania (IMPACT)
Location: Tanzania
Reach: 502,650 women, 150,800 adolescent girls and 83,600 infants (50% girls)
Budget: $14.7 million (Global Affairs Canada: $12 million; AKFC: $2.7 million)
2016 – 2020
Afghanistan Women’s Empowerment Program (AWEP)
Location: Afghanistan
Reach: 235,100 people (213,050 women; 22,050 men)
Budget: $12 million (Global Affairs Canada: $10.5 million; AKFC: $1.5 million)
2015 – 2021
Access to Quality Care Through Extending and Strengthening Health Systems (AQCESS)
Location: Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan
Reach: 1.7 million people (998,500 women and girls; 601,500 men and boys)
Budget: $30.5 million (Global Affairs Canada: $25.1 million; AKFC: $5.4 million)
2015 – 2022
Aswan Skills Development Program (ASDP)
Location: Egypt
Reach: 6,000 (2,400 women and 3,600 men)
Budget: $12.5 million (Global Affairs Canada: $10.6 million; AKFC: $1.9 million)
2015 – 2020
Health Action Plan For Afghanistan (HAPA)
Location: Afghanistan
Reach: 1.26 million (619,250 women and girls; 640,750 men and boys)
Budget: $75.2 million (Global Affairs Canada: $55 million; Agence française de développement: $13.2 million; AKFC: $7 million)
2015 – 2019
Aga Khan Development Network Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative
Location: India
Reach: 101,100 households and 528 schools
Budget: $44.2 million (Government of India: $16.9 million; other donors: $14.3 million; community contributions: $7.8 million; AKF-USA: $2.6 million; AKFC: $2.6 million)
Projet d’amélioration de l’accès à des services éducatifs de qualité (PASEQ)
Duration: 2014-2017
Location: Mali
Reach: 160,500 people (16,200 children and 144,300 parents and adults)
Budget: $5.3 million (Global Affairs Canada: $4.5 million; AKFC: $800,000)
East African Dialogue Series
Duration: 2014-2017
Location: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Reach: This is a research project with no direct beneficiaries.
Budget: $350,000 (AKFC: $150,000; International Development Research Centre: $150,000; Ford Foundation: $50,000)
Partnership For Advancing Human Development In Africa And Asia (PAHDAA)
Duration: 2012-2018
Location: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Egypt, India, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Tanzania
Reach: 2.3 million people (1.3 million women and girls; 1 million men and boys)
Budget: $100 million (Global Affairs Canada: $75 million; AKFC: $25 million)
Enhancing Employability And Leadership For Youth (EELY)
Duration: 2011-2017
Location: Pakistan
Reach: 252,000 people (114,200 women and 137,800 men)
Budget: $19 million (Global Affairs Canada: $16 million; AKFC: $3 million)
Program Expenses
Aga Khan Foundation Canada- Program Expenses 2019
*Amount in Canadian Dollars
| Program/ Project | Start Date | End Date | Total Project Value | 2019 Annual Expenditure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Advancing Human Development in Africa and Asia (PAHDAA) | 08-Jun-12 | 31-Mar-19 | 99,750,000 | 18,400 |
| Aswan Skills Development Program in Egypt (ASDP) | 24-Apr-15 | 30-Jun-20 | 10,300,675 | 2,468,926 |
| Health Action Plan for Afghanistan (HAPA) | 22-Dec-15 | 30-Jun-21 | 75,222,582 | 11,875,645 |
| Access to Quality Care through Extending and Strengthening Health Systems in Pakistan, Kenya, Mali and Mozambique (AQCESS) | 30-Mar-16 | 31-Mar-21 | 30,527,656 | 8,738,629 |
| Afghanistan Women's Empowerment Program (AWEP) | 30-Mar-16 | 30-Jun-21 | 11,970,310 | 2,807,402 |
| Improving Access to Maternal and Newborn Health in Mwanza, Tanzania (IMPACT) | 12-Jan-17 | 31-Mar-21 | 14,678,571 | 4,624,822 |
| Pathways to Innovation in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (P2i) | 01-Mar-17 | 30-Nov-20 | 2,223,778 | 751,609 |
| Ta'ziz - A Multi-Region Multi-Year Humanitarian Response Program in Syria | 11-Jan-17 | 31-Dec-19 | 7,000,000 | 2,931,244 |
| Assessment and Development of Implementation Models of Health-Related Sustainable Development Goals (IM-SDG) | 01-Apr-18 | 30-Jun-20 | 560,000 | 259,184 |
| Increasing the Scale and Sustainability of the Madrasa Early Childhood Development Program | 01-Jul-18 | 30-Jun-21 | 1,000,002 | 379,689 |
| Improving Early Childhood Development and Well-Being in Refugee and Other Marginalized Communities in Kenya | 27-Mar-17 | 30-Jun-21 | 1,012,408 | 322,631 |
| Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Adolescents in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (SPARC) | 01-Oct-18 | 30-Sep-23 | 21,935,000 | 1,887,372 |
| Using Educational Technology to Develop Essential Educational Competencies in Sub-Saharan Africa | 01-Apr-17 | 31-Mar-24 | 254,000 | - |
| Teeko: mHealth Immunization App (eMNCH Care) | 01-Dec-18 | 31-Dec-20 | 499,981 | 325,183 |
| Program Implementation Support for AKF programs in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan | 01-Jan-14 | 31-Dec-21 | 10,732,000 | 1,573,668 |
| AKDN Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative in India | 01-Jan-15 | 30-Jun-20 | 2,585,232 | 281,216 |
| Qualified Donee Grants | 01-Jan-19 | 31-Dec-19 | 47,754,852 | 47,754,852 |
| Other [Canadian expenses] | 01-Jan-19 | 31-Dec-19 | 1,057,806 | 1,057,806 |
| TOTAL | 339,064,853 | 88,058,276 |
