The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of
development agencies with mandates ranging from health and
education
to architecture, culture, microfinance,
rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise
and the revitalisation of
historic cities.
In 2000, His Highness the Aga Khan initiated a programme for the establishment of an integrated network of schools, called Aga Khan Academies, dedicated to expanding access to education of an international standard of excellence in Africa and Asia. The first such school, the Aga Khan Academy in Mombasa, began operating in August of 2003... more
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Mombasa, Kenya - The first of a planned network of Aga Khan Academies dedicated to expanding access to education of an international standard of excellence in Asia and Africa was inaugurated in December 2003, in Mombasa, Kenya. The Academy features a curriculum based on the framework of the International Baccalaureate (IB). more
Since its establishment in 2005, the Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) has taken over 25 years of microfinance activities, programmes and banks that were administered by sister agencies within the AKDN. The underlying objectives of the Agency are to reduce poverty, diminish the vulnerability of poor populations and alleviate economic and social exclusion. more
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