Accelerate Prosperity
Inspiring rising entrepreneurs in Central and South Asia to grow new markets, create sustainable employment, and strengthen communities
Work & Enterprise
Empowering people – especially the young – to access economic opportunities and create sustainable, prosperous futures.
The Aga Khan Foundation works with our wide network of partners to help communities tackle economic exclusion and unemployment and improve the economic well-being of women and men, particularly youth.
We focus our support on promoting in-demand, future-facing skills and work opportunities, while promoting local entrepreneurship and SMEs through training, mentoring, and access to finance.
There are those who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless they can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair.His Highness the Aga Khan
Investing in people
Our flagship enterprise development initiative Accelerate Prosperity has already boosted more than 3,400 small and growing businesses, while our employable skills programme and Future of Work initiative - which seeks to prepare youth for digital and green jobs - is benefiting more than 20,000 individuals per year, over half of whom are women.
Our Goals
Increased employment and self-employment
By offering employable skills training and access to business support services
Increased productivity and income for producers and businesses
By improving access to markets and services and supporting existing enterprises
Enhanced access to affordable and useful financial products
By connecting communities with financial services, either locally managed or commercial financial providers
Featured Initiatives
Our impact in 2023
Our impact in 2023
- 825,000 People with improved access to markets and services
- 158,734 People used financial services provided by community managed entities or commercial financial providers, 38% of whom were below the age of 30
- 22,274 Youth accessed employable skills training and support services
Our Work & Enterprise programmes address the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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