Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia

An Introduction to the Aga Khan Music Initiative

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The Aga Khan Music Initiative promotes traditional music as part of a broader programme of development that encompasses the physical, social, cultural and economic revitalisation of communities in the Muslim world. Music of Central Asia, the Aga Khan Music Initiative’s panoramic 10-volume audio-visual survey of contemporary tradition-based music from Central Eurasia, is part of these efforts.

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

North America
Canada, USA
Europe
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Western Africa
Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali
Central and Eastern Africa
DRC, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania & Zanzibar, Uganda
Middle East
Egypt, Syria
South Asia
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan
Central Asia
Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan

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