Gender Equality
Gender Equality
With an emphasis on women and girls, AKF invests in human potential, expanding opportunities and improving quality of life.
The Aga Khan Foundation supports communities in planning and responding to crises, such as the recent devastating flooding in Pakistan. Gul Noori has worked there for over two decades as a search-and-rescue expert.
She has broken down barriers to women with her example, as she scales mountains to bring life-saving support to communities in need. She has also helped in training over 36,000 local volunteers how to prepare for crises. Nearly half of them are women.
She says,
“Our belief is: if you save one life, it is as if you have saved all of humanity.”
AKF is committed to opening doors for women at all levels. Of the nearly 35,000 civil society organizations supported by AKF worldwide, 38% are led by women.
Watch a short video of Gul Noori’s story, from the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat.
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Today, AKF is sowing the seeds of hope and equality throughout Africa and Asia with gender responsive initiatives across our Global Program Framework, including in Agriculture and Food Security; Civil Society; Climate Resilience; Early Childhood Development; Education, Health and Nutrition, Work and Enterprise.
These efforts, guided by a fusion of evidence, data, and local knowledge, offer women and girls a new future of increased participation in local leadership and new job opportunities.
Targeting both immediate wins and generations of success, all our gender equity programs echo our core approach of pluralism, dignity, and self-reliance.
Initiatives include
Civil Society
Our impact
were women where gender information was reported in 2020
by AKF’s Work and Enterprise programs in 2020 were women.
supported by AKF were women-led in 2020.
“The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity—these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.”
His Highness the Aga Khan
Evora University Symposium, Evora (Portugal)
12 February 2006
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