26 August 2011 - The Aga Khan Foundation is supporting the "Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries". From the event extract: "Children and youth all around the world are facing a serious learning crisis. Beyond the 67 million children who are not attending primary school in low-income countries, there are countless children who are going through ...
4 August 2011 - The University of Central Asia recently announced the establishment of the University's first research centre, the Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC).The official announcement was made by UCA Director General Dr Bohdan Krawchenko during the opening of an International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities in Mountain Areas, co-hosted by UCA and the National ...
27 June 2011 - For the first time in Kazakhstan high school students received International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) certification having successfully completed examinations on 14 May 2010. Six grade eight students from Schools #5 and #1 in Tekeli received ICDL credentials and SPCE Certificates of Achievements for the "Using Computer and Managing Files "course. In 2010 the University of Central ...
13-17 June 2011 - Faculty from the University of Ottawa (Canada), Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute delivered a training programme on teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Naryn, attended by 17 English instructors from the School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPCE) UCA, in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan. Ottawa faculty members Ms Carla Hall and Ms Bianca Sherwood ...
On 3 June 2011, World Bank Managing Director Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala addressed an audience of 100 academics, students, civil servants and representatives of international organizations as part of the University of Central Asia Public Lecture Series. She spoke on the challenges of restoring economic growth in Kyrgyzstan after the crises of 2010. Dr Okonjo-Iweala discussed the possible sources of renewed growth, ...
On 30 May 2011, the University of Central Asia's School of Professional Education (UCA SPCE) officially opened its Bishkek Learning Centre. The Ceremony was attended by His Excellency Aliyasbek Alymkulov, Minister of Youth Affairs, Mrs Ulara Naruzbayeva, State Secretary of the National Agency for Local Self-Government. Guests included Mr Pradeep Sharma, acting Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme, Mr ...
30 May 2011 - For the first time, learners from Afghanistan graduated from the University of Central Asia's School of Professional and Continuing Education, Khorog. At a ceremony held at the the Khorog Theatre on 14 May 2011, 63 Afghan learners received awards together with 139 learners from Tajikistan. The 5th Graduation Ceremony learners received certificates in Accounting Technology and Certified ...
On 20 May 2011 The University of Central Asia's School of Professional and Continuing Education (UCA SPCE) Naryn building was officially opened by Akylbek Japarov, Member of Parliament and Head of Finance and Budget Committee together with Vice Governor of Naryn Oblast Emilbek Alymkulov. Also present were Aga Khan Development Network Representative Nurjehan Mawani and UCA Director General Dr. Bohdan Krawchenko, ...
Newly appointed Directors gather in Ottawa for first Board Meeting Ottawa, Canada, 7 October 2010 - The Board of Directors of the Global Centre for Pluralism, Canada's new international research and education centre dedicated to the study and practice of pluralism worldwide, gathered in Ottawa today for its inaugural two-day meeting. The new Board is charged with establishing an institutional framework ...
Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, 1 September 2010 - A new three-kilometer diversion of the Naryn State Road constructed by the University of Central Asia (UCA) -- one of several infrastructure projects completed by UCA that are essential for full-scale construction to start -- was formally handed over by UCA to the Naryn Oblast Administration, in the presence of the President of the ...
Islamabad, Pakistan, 9 August 2010 - To improve drinking water supply and sanitation conditions in Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan, Germany's KfW will provide a grant of Euro 3.12 million for the implementation of the second phase of the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) - a programme run by the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan (AKPBS,P). The agreement for the ...
Information on Under-Utilised Scholarships and Financial Assistance Schemes Delhi, India, 27 July 2010 - To make information on government scholarships more accessible to socially and economically marginalised communities and available in a user-friendly form, the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) has published a directory on financial support schemes for school education in India. "The directory has been published in response to the ...
Kigali, Rwanda, 6 June 2010 - The Aga Khan Planning and Building Service's (AKPBS,P) Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) in Pakistan was awarded a national Energy Globe Award. The award recognises projects that "make careful and economical use of resources and employ alternative energy sources". The award, which was received in Kigali, Rwanda, during a ceremony organized on the UN ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan 1-2 June, 2010 - In 2002, the village of Dasht, located in the Pamirs of Tajikistan was completely destroyed by a glacial lake outburst flood, leaving dozens of residents of the village dead and hundreds homeless. In response to this disaster, joint European-Tajik scientific studies were conducted in 2005 and 2010. These studies have identified tens of thousands of ...
Aswan, Egypt, 18 May 2010 - The Continuing Education Center (CEC), an initiative of Om Habibeh Foundation (an affiliate of the Aga Khan Development Network), was inaugurated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 in Aswan. This centre is unique to Upper Egypt in that its mandate is to provide new graduates with the skills necessary to be employed in the labour market. ...
24 March 2010 - The Aga Khan Music Initiative and the San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet have inaugurated a pioneering musical collaboration that brings the quartet together with leading musicians from Azerbaijan and Afghanistan to compose, arrange, and perform new music rooted in Central Asian tradition. Founded 35 years ago, Kronos is celebrated for its singular commitment to expanding the range and ...
10 March 2010 - The Jashn e Khusrau, which celebrates the Sufiana kalaam (mystical poetry of Islam) of Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), rendered in the khanqah of his beloved pir, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238-1325), and which has been kept alive for over 700 years by khanqahi qawwali at sama-e-mehfil (Sufi music communion) of the Chistiya silsilah, will run from 4-14 March 2010. ...
4 March 2010 New York Times, New York, USA: "Classical Azeri Poetry in Song, From a Team of Father and Daughter - Mr. Qasimov is simply one of the greatest singers alive, with a searing spontaneity that conjures passion and devotion, contemplation and incantation. He now performs with his daughter and student, Fargana Qasimov... and they have an American release, "Spiritual ...
1 March 2010 - Completion of primary school is a key goal within the Millennium Development and Education for All (EFA) Goals. Yet, there has been little attention to where education efforts break down: right at the beginning. Analysis of grade-disaggregated data indicates the highest drop-out and repetition rates are in Grade 1. In too many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and ...
Vol. 7: In the Shrine of the Heart: Popular Classics from Bukhara and Beyond Vol. 8: Rainbow: Kronos Quartet with Alim & Fargana Qasimov and Homayoun Sakhi Vol. 9: In the Footsteps of Babur: Musical Encounters from the Lands of the Mughals 25 February 2010 - Music of Central Asia, the Aga Khan Music Initiative's panoramic 10-volume audio-visual survey of contemporary tradition-based ...
22 January 2010 - Even before Alexander the Great passed through the region over 2,000 years ago, the inhabitants of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan province faced the constant threat of disasters, including floods, landslides, earthquakes and severe winter weather. The ability of the population to successfully face disasters was further tested during the civil conflict, and the subsequent social and economic upheaval, which ...
14 October 2009 - Focus Humanitarian Assistance (FOCUS) Afghanistan is currently implementing a Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). The CBDRR project seeks to increase awareness and disaster-resilience in highly vulnerable communities by strengthening local capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and recover from ...
6 October 2009 - The South Asian earthquake of October 2005 devastated large parts of Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control (LOC) as well as significant parts of the North West Frontier province in Pakistan. The death toll in Pakistan was around 73,000 (almost 30,000 children) with another 70,000 severely injured or disabled and 4 million made homeless. ...
17 September 2009 - Penina Onyango, Head Teacher at Kawino Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, no longer awaits the arrival of Brown Onguko - her course facilitator at AKU's Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED, EA) - from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to help resolve her teaching challenges. Instead, she has a much better bargain: she can communicate with Onguko ...
26 June 2009 - In June, students at the University of Central Asia's (UCA) School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPCE), Central Asia's first provider of formal, university-based, non-degree educational programmes, received certificates and awards for a number of disciplines, including accounting, mountain guiding and the teaching of English. The ceremonies in Dushanbe and Khorog also marked several milestones. SPCE's first ...
27 May 2009 - As part of the commemoration of the 15th anniversary since the establishment of Focus Humanitarian Assistance, the FOCUS Europe Board organised "An Evening with FOCUS" at the Ismaili Centre in London on Thursday 28th May. The evening included presentations by the Chairman of the FOCUS International Coordinating Committee, the Executive Officers of FOCUS Tajikistan and FOCUS Europe ...
21 April 2009 Why? Worldwide 200 million children under five years of age are not achieving their development potential due to poverty, poor health and nutrition, and lack of stimulation and learning opportunities. The vast majority of these children are from disadvantaged households and communities in low-income countries. Early childhood lays critical foundations for a person's entire life - a finding ...
17 April 2009 - The district of Surkh-e-Parsa lies at the upper end of the Ghorband Valley, not far from where the road begins to climb the bare hills to the Shibar Pass. Three green valleys converge at the district centre of Lolinj. The local people grow wheat and tend their fruit trees, but they have always been poor. For them, ...
On 26 January 2001, an earthquake registering 7.9 on the Richter scale devastated the Indian state of Gujarat. Twenty thousand people died, 167,000 were injured and as many as 600,000 people were left homeless. Over 348,000 houses were destroyed and an additional 844,000 damaged. Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) agencies were quick to respond to the earthquake, moving in rapidly to ...
Delhi, India, April 2015 - As part of its continued efforts to restore and revitalise the areas around Humayun's Tomb, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and its partners will begin construction on a site museum and visitor's centre in Delhi. The need for a museum and visitor centre at this world heritage site became apparent in recent years. Two million ...
People began gathering in mid-morning after the men and women had finished their early morning chores. The entire village of Kalan Guzar turned out for the meeting which was held in a big compound next to the school and the clinic. The men and boys, wearing woollen hats and turbans, sat cross-legged on carpets spread on the ground. The women and ...
Om Habibeh Foundation Signs Agreement with Aswan University January 2015- The Om Habibeh Foundation (OHF) in Aswan, signed an Agreement with Aswan University to further develop the institutional relationship with the two organisations, specifically around the strengthening of the quality of education at the Faculty of Nursing, and the improvement of employability skills of Aswan University Students. As part of the ...
New Sounds from Arab Lands is presented in collaboration with, and curated by, the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a programme of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.Kinan Azmeh, clarinet Basel Rajoub, saxophone Jasser Haj Youssef, violin, viola d'amore Feras Charestan, qanun Khaled Yassine, percussion Programme The concert programme is drawn from new works created by members of the New Sounds ensemble. ...
30 June 2010 - The Building and Construction Improvement Programme (BACIP) and Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) -- both programmes of the Aga Khan Planning & Building Service in Pakistan -- have been cited as Good Practice Cases in the 2010 United Nations Development Group's (UNDG) Millenium Development Goals (MDG) Good Practices publication. This publication, produced by the UNDG, includes nearly ...
Robert Dunn: My name is Bob Dunn and I have the privilege of serving as the President of the Synergos Institute. This is our first University for a Night in Europe, although we have held similar events for more than a decade in New York and quite recently in Johannesburg. It's really wonderful to see some old friends and some new ...
International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia 11 August 2011 - The Mountain Societies Research Centre (MSRC) of the University of Central Asia (UCA) and the National Centre of Competence in Research North-South (NCCR North-South) co-hosted an International Symposium on Pastoralism in Central Asia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities in Mountain Areas, 13-18 June 2011 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. The Symposium was ...
Aired on BBC World 3 July @ 0130, 0830 GMT and 4 July @ 1430, 2030 GMT [For broadcast times in your time zone look up www.bbcworldnews.com] From the Heritage Heroes Website: 22 June 2010 - "Zanzibar's Forodhani Park was shabby and decrepit until the Aga Khan Trust for Culture decided to restore it to its former condition. The project was ...
Press Release Issued by the MacJannet Foundation Medford/Somerville, MA, USA, 16 April 2009 - The Talloires Network and the MacJannet Foundation today announced the winners of the first annual MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship. The first place winner is the Urban Health Program based in Aga Khan University in Pakistan. This innovative and long-standing program run by Aga Khan University's Department ...
Publication Based on 20 Years of Archaeological Research by Kubat Tabaldiev Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 5 March 2012 - The University of Central Asia (UCA) has launched its latest publication, Ancient Monuments of Tien-Shan in Bishkek. Written by Kubat Tabaldiev, the book is based on twenty years of archeological research in the Naryn and Issyk Kul regions. It presents evidence of a ...
The 2007 Aga Khan Award Master Jury recognises how architecture and the built environment define the diverse and divergent paths that lead to the capacious lifeworlds of contemporary Muslim societies. Our challenge was to judge the complex negotiation that architecture represents between, on the one hand, the sense of satisfaction and belonging that a building - a home - provides and, ...
