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Greenhouse of Hope: One Mother Defies Tajikistan’s Harsh Climate to Nourish Her Community

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1704380459319{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”] Through AKF and USAID’s Local Impact project, rural women in Tajikistan are taking the lead in providing food security to their communities [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_single_image image=”10909″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” content_placement=”top” el_class=”smallerscreen”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”10909″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1704380522793{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]In the most remote regions of Tajikistan, the main livelihood is livestock breeding. Harsh winter conditions make […]

Connecting Markets: Lead Firms Take Local Mobilization to Next Level

This is the fourth in a series on how the Aga Khan Development Network is building capacity from local governance to regional economic growth. In Tajikistan, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), AKDN launched a Global Development Alliance (GDA) entitled Economic and Social Connections: A Multi-Input Area Development Financing Facility for Tajikistan (ESCoMIAD). […]

A Spark of Connection to Life-Changing Work

The Aga Khan Health Services Clinic in Dushanbe is a stand-alone facility with its own lab and operating room. It provides basic check-ups as well as gynecological services, dentistry, and non-invasive surgery. The clinic provides private quality healthcare at low costs, and subsidizes treatments for those who can prove need. Donors from the US spoke with the clinic’s manager and meet patients, like this toddler who is in for a checkup. (Photo: D. Khonikboyeva/AKDN)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here we follow-up with newlyweds Shehzaan and Zainab Chunara, whom we featured last Valentine’s Day for their wedding gift to Aga Khan Foundation. They reflect on a recent trip to Tajikistan where they met with people about the Aga Khan Development Network’s impact.

Making Growth: Improving Access to Finance and Forging Groups of Shared Interest

Members of a dairy-focused common interest group in Dusti, Tajikistan stands around their new refrigerated truck. Photo Credit AKDN

This is the third in a series on how the Aga Khan Development Network is building on local capacity to foster economic growth and governance in Tajikistan. With the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), AKDN launched a Global Development Alliance (GDA) entitled Economic and Social Connections: A Multi-Input Area Development Financing Facility for Tajikistan […]

The Mountain is Calling and I Must Go

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thomas (Tom) Orr is a Programme Officer with the Aga Khan Foundation Tajikistan in Dushanbe, who first came to Tajikistan as a fellow through the Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s International Youth Fellowship Program.

Building Local Capacity for Self Governance

This post is the first in a series that will be focusing on local capacity and regional change in Tajikistan. In 2014, the Aga Khan Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a Global Development Alliance entitled Economic and Social Connections: A Multi-Input Area Development Financing Facility for Tajikistan (ESCoMIAD). The Alliance promotes […]

Fellows Spotlight: Where Inspiration Takes Root

Early Childhood Education in Tajikistan

“…If you have a well educated mind, you will be able to seize the opportunities life offers you…” – His Highness the Aga Khan, Atlanta, Georgia, April 18, 2008 Since I joined the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in the United States as Programs Fellow in October 2015, I have been involved in various program activities […]

International Women’s Day: An Inspirational Woman from Tajikistan

Tursunmo Khudododova, 74, from Khorog, Tajikistan is an active women’s leader in her community. She has organized many women-focused Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), committed to improving women’s financial circumstances, with the support of the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme (MSDSP), a project of the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). Tursunmo has lived almost her entire life […]

International Women’s Day 2016

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Pledge for Parity” and focuses on celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. We could not think of a better person to highlight then Tursunmo Khudododova. Tursunmo Khudododova “Educated and independent women are a strong development force.”   Tursunmo, 74, from Khorog, Tajikistan has been an […]

Aga Khan Foundation and USAID Catalyze Enterprise Growth

DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN, JANUARY 27, 2016. –  The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) approved an investment of $1 million to the First MicroFinance Bank of Tajikistan (FMFB-T), which will be matched by a $1 million investment from the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF). This adds to a recent investment of $1.2 million mobilized from the KfW […]