In this special edition, meet women we work with around the world who are investing in their own futures, the future of their communities, and the future of the environments they live in. Members of a women’s community-based savings group…
What is the Competency Framework for Health Workers and Trainers? The Competency Framework for Health Workers and Trainers is a tool designed to enhance the capacities of health workers in supporting caregivers with children aged 0 to 3 years in…
In 2018, Yalda and her family left Afghanistan. They drove for 18 hours before reaching the city of Vahdat in western Tajikistan. At the time, Yalda was in her first year of university and like many young Afghan refugees, left…
Inaugurating a new series on the future of the international system as part of the Palliser Lectures – a partnership between Salzburg Global Seminar, the 21st Century Trust and the Aga Khan Foundation – Pascal Lamy spoke at the Aga…
Beekeeping in India, young musicians in Syria, and snow-clad mountains in Afghanistan: scroll down to see what we’ve been up to this month. AKF’s operations team in Syria carry out routine maintenance on the rooftop solar panels at the AKF…
E-rickshaw drivers in India, pigeon rearing in Syria, and pickling mussels in Mozambique: scroll down to see what we’ve been up to this month. Against a backdrop of economic instability, climate-aggravated drought, and unsustainable agricultural systems, Abo Ali is rearing…
On the first-ever day for ‘Children, Youth, Education and Skills’ at a COP, the FCDO and USAID announced a new partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation to ensure that teachers and young people remain at the centre of the educational…
Shafiqa* lives in a remote village in Afghanistan’s Takhar province. As a widow, she shoulders the weight of providing for her household of ten. In the past, Shafiqa’s family relied on livestock rearing, but when her husband passed away she…
Sitting 3,270 meters above sea level, Tajikistan’s Murghab district grapples with an unforgiving climate. The arid and mountainous landscape along with winter temperatures as low as -24°C make vegetable cultivation almost impossible. The mainstay of the population in one of…
According to the Report on the 2022 United Nations’ Transforming Education Summit, over 80 countries plan to include climate education in their national curricula. Now the challenge is to design climate education policy and implementation plans in ways that are ambitious,…