The Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) works
to improve the built environment, particularly housing design and construction,
village planning, natural hazard mitigation, environmental sanitation, water
supplies, and other living conditions. AKPBS achieves these goals through
the provision of material and technical assistance and construction management
services for rural and urban areas.
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A number of AKDN agencies create low-cost products and technologies that both improve the quality of life in human habitats and reduce the pressures on the natural environment. The Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP), for example, has created over 70 products ranging from smoke-free stoves to earthquake-resistant construction methods. More
AKPBS acts through national service companies. The service companies plan, organise and finance activities and operate facilities and programmes in close collaboration with other AKDN institutions, government agencies and selected external partnering agencies. The national service companies are officially registered as not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations in each country. The international sponsor of the national service companies is the Aga Khan Planning and Building Services S.A., which is incorporated as a not-for-profit company in Geneva, Switzerland. The Chairman and some or all of the directors of the AKPBS boards in India and Pakistan are appointed by the sponsoring company. All directors serve as volunteers on an unremunerated basis.
The activities of the national service companies are coordinated by the Social Welfare Department at the Aga Khan's Secretariat in France. This is achieved primarily through five-year plans, ten-year projections, annual budget submissions and the provision of technical assistance to country programmes and institutions.
The current priorities of AKPBS are:
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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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