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Craftwork in King’s Cross: AKF’s Silk Road Bazaar returns!

Opinion6 July 2022

The Aga Khan Foundation are delighted to announce the return of the Silk Road Bazaar — an artisan market laden with goods from countries along the historic Silk Road trading route. From 22-24 July, a select group of artisanal vendors…

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Afghanistan today: An interview with Dr Najmuddin Najm, CEO of AKF Afghanistan

Opinion21 March 2022

Of the 17 countries that AKF operates in, our largest footprint is in Afghanistan. AKF employ around 1,200 staff in Afghanistan, 99% of whom are Afghan, including AKF Afghanistan’s CEO, Dr Najmuddin Najm. Dr Najmuddin has worked with AKF since…

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Showcasing Teacher Leadership and Education Innovation at RewirEd

Opinion2 December 2021

Rewiring education means thinking differently. For many years the global community has worked tirelessly towards the Sustainable Development Goals, yet the very best of intentions and millions of dollars spent has not changed the education landscape significantly enough for many…

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Strengthening peace and security through sports in Eastern Tajikistan

Opinion4 August 2021

As the world tunes in to watch the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, we pause to acknowledge the movement of sports and culture in building a better world. This ethos has been adopted by civil society in Khorog, Tajikistan, whereby recent…

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Schools2030 – AKF’s global education initiative to put schools at the heart of social change

Opinion19 July 2021

In December 2019, the first workshops were held in Nairobi to familiarise Aga Khan Foundation staff and members of the education network RELI with the Schools2030 Human-Centred Design Toolkit – the free, open source resource developed as part of the…

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Silk Road Bazaar comes to King’s Cross

Opinion26 May 2021

The Aga Khan Foundation are delighted to announce The Silk Road Bazaar — an artisan market inspired by and staged alongside the open-air photography exhibition, The Silk Road: A Living History in London’s King’s Cross. Between 11 – 13 June,…

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Learning against the odds – Matt Reed on Girls’ Education in Fragile Contexts

Opinion22 April 2021

Last month, the Aga Khan Foundation (UK) hosted a group of over 200 people dedicated to advancing girls’ education. Brought together over two days, the global audience and participants featured government ministers, international institutions, foundations, academics, international NGOs, and local…

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‘People need help now, they can’t wait’ – Land, Water and Borders along the Silk Road

Opinion22 March 2021

The sudden and dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw the emergence of the independent states of Central Asia.  For a landlocked and historically interconnected region, the formalising and hardening of new national borders – once open and…

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Cooperation and compassion during COVID-19: how civil society must pave the road to recovery – Matt Reed’s latest blog

Opinion26 February 2021

Last month, I spoke at the launch of The Council of Europe Development Bank’s Award for Social Cohesion*. The award recognises outstanding organisations and projects contributing to social cohesion in Europe. The topic could not be more important, as events…

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AKDN at the Finance in Common Summit 2020

Opinion13 November 2020

Taking place between 9-12 November 2020 during the Paris Peace Forum, the Finance in Common Summit is a global meeting of all public developments banks. The Summit stressed the crucial role of Public Development Banks in reconciling short-term countercyclical responses…

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