Members of a village drinking water supply scheme at a meeting in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
Members of a village drinking water supply scheme at a meeting in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
In Gujarat, a teacher guides a student at the Yuva Junction Centre run by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in India.
AKDN / Mansi Midha
In Gujarat, a teacher guides a student at the Yuva Junction Centre run by the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme...
AKDN / Mansi Midha
In India, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme serves marginalised communities, helping villages to better manage their natural resources and improve their livelihoods.
AKDN / Mansi Midha
In India, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme serves marginalised communities, helping villages to better man...
AKDN / Mansi Midha
After receiving training from the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme on organic cotton farming, villagers have started making their own natural fertilizers and pesticides using locally available products such as leaves, herbs, cow urine and molasses.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
After receiving training from the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme on organic cotton farming, villagers have s...
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
In parts of Madhya Pradesh where agriculture is the main source of income, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme works to develop the skills of young people and create an enabling ecosystem in which they can explore their potential and alternative livelihoods.
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
In parts of Madhya Pradesh where agriculture is the main source of income, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programm...
AKDN / Christopher Wilton-Steer
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Community engagement and mobilisation are central to AKF’s approach to ensuring local ownership and the sustainability of programme interventions. In India, we focus on developing and strengthening sustainable community institutions, enabling them to deliver critical social and financial services. Federating these groups helps them to better connect with local government programmes to access entitlements and public services. We also help migrants and other vulnerable groups to access state entitlements in Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
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AKF supported 11,900 civil society organisations in 2020
In 2020, we supported 11,900 civil society organisations, representing over 1.1 million people. These institutions play a major role in mobilising communities to plan, implement and monitor initiatives in agriculture, watershed development, irrigation management, horticulture and dairy development. The local institutions operate at sub-village, village and block levels, with AKF and AKRSP providing technical and institutional capacity building support as well as strengthening relationships with government line departments, panchayats (the Indian term for local self-government) and, in some cases, with financial service providers and agricultural input suppliers/traders.
We also train women’s self-help groups and self-help group federations to address gender-based violence and gender equality in their communities.