Founded and guided by His Highness the Aga Khan, the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and its precursors have been working in India since 1905. Its programmes now span the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. These programmes work to address a broad spectrum of development issues ranging from cultural restoration to education quality, health care to rural development, civil society strengthening to economic development.
The AKDN works in 30 countries around the world. It employs over 80,000 people, many of them in the project companies of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED). The AKDN’s annual budget for social and cultural development activities in 2010 was US$ 625 million. All AKDN agencies are non-profit except AKFED, which seeks to generate profits as part of its formula for sustainability, but reinvests any profits in further development activities.
AKDN agencies are nondenominational, conducting their programmes without regard to faith, origin or gender. While each agency pursues its own mandate, all of them work together within the over-arching framework of the Network so that their different pursuits interact and reinforce one another.
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