Aga Khan Development Network

[2] AKDN agencies' mission statement is to work towards the elimination of global poverty; the promotion and implementation of pluralism;[3] the advancement of the status of women; and the honoring of Islamic art and architecture.

The fund and the foundation also encourage government policies that foster what the Aga Khan first called "an enabling environment of favorable legislative and fiscal structures".

The trust also provides financial support for the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

Programs in Tanzania have focused on helping to train farmers on sustainable agricultural practices to battle harsh and unpredictable climate.

[13] Aga Khan IV succeeded to the office of the 49th hereditary Imam as spiritual and administrative leader of the Shia faith-rooted Nizari Isma'ili Muslim faith in 1957.

This mandate guides the network of AKDN institutions active in more than 35 underdeveloped countries to provide support in the fields of health care, education, and economics.

[19] The AKDN is one of the first Global Alliance Founding Partners, that will be providing funding for the Earthshot Prize, launched in October 2020 by Prince William in partnership with Sir David Attenborough through The Royal Foundation.