Aga Khan Agency for the Habitat (AKAHI)

Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India (AKAHI) is a not-for-profit network agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of private, non-denominational and international development agencies. AKDN, one of the world’s largest private charities is working in 30 countries, employing approximately 80,000 people, mostly in developing countries. AKAHI impacts more than 10 lac beneficiaries through Development Programmes, Consultancy, Research, Studies and Advocacy, with special focus on capacity and leadership development at the local level by combining scientific, technical and community-based approaches.
AKAHI collaborates with Government, Bilateral and Multilateral Organizations, Academia and private sector, including corporates and
their CSR, Philanthropies and the Civil Society to implement development programs in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana, and
provides technical consultancy to all stakeholders across all geographies.
Active since 1970, Aga Khan Agency for Habitat India (AKAHI) works in the following Habitat related themes with the lens of Climate Change & Sustainability:
1) 4500+ Habitat Improvement interventions
2) 5000+ Environment & Water interventions\

3)1000+ Emergency Management interventions

4) 40,000+ Health, Hygiene and Sanitation interventions
Supported by a “Board of Eminence” for robust governance, AKAHI is guided by the AKDN values with necessary organizational and safeguarding policies in place including GHG Emissions Management Policy, which has targets, guidelines and methods to minimize and measure the carbon footprint of all its operations.
AKAHI and its work has been widely published, appreciated and awarded at various forums and platforms in India- by the stakeholders, beneficiaries, donor agencies and through third party assessments.