How the Programme Works

In operational terms, Historic Cities Programme fits its role to the needs of each project and community, and works in any combination of the following capacities:

• Identifying projects and providing planning assistance to government and local bodies that have recognised conservation potentials. HCP provides technical expertise, defines opportunities and approaches, prepares feasibility studies, and shapes proposals for submission to local investors or international agencies, including the Trust itself.
• Planning for conservation and appropriate redevelopment. HCP undertakes urban conservation and development projects which may include a cluster of buildings, public open spaces between and around buildings, a district, or a complete plan for a historic town. These efforts can move from study and planning through funding and implementation with the help of local institutions, governments, and other funding partners. All such projects aim at restoring and maintaining the socioeconomic and cultural fabric of a designated area.
• Undertaking selected conservation and restoration projects. HCP periodically engages in restoring specific historic sites and buildings. These may be elements of urban landscape or single structures, for which appropriate new functions are developed to meet the social and economic needs of the respective communities.
• Engaging in associated cultural initiatives in existing project sites to support the long-term viability of conservation projects. This is achieved through the re-animation of historic structures in a context of ongoing social and economic change, rather than as an isolated process. All enabling development factors - community support, innovative institutional structures, and commercial potential - are harnessed, whenever possible, to make conservation sustainable.

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Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance

Microfinance for Women in Northern Pakistan

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