17th Death Anniversary of World Famous Humanitarian: Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan (original) (raw)

Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan - Pioneer of Microcredit & Guru of Rural Development

Synopsis: Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan - Pioneer of Microcredit & Guru of Rural Development is a collection of ten articles and two poems on Dr. A.H. Khan - a world renowned social scientist and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Dr. Khan was a guru of rural development, pioneer of microfinance and recipient of many prestigious awards. He led the way in rural development and poverty alleviation. Dr. A.H. Khan was founder of two world-famous institutions, i.e. Bangladesh (previously Pakistan) Academy for Rural Development (BARD) and Orangi Pilot Project (OPP). Dr. Khan was also recognized by many academics, world leaders and global organizations, such as the World Bank, for his contributions to poverty alleviation. Dr. Khan passed away on October 09, 1999, and per his will, he was laid to rest on the premises of the OPP. In honor of this great social scientist, his nephew, scholar and historian Nasim Yousaf, has published this work as a tribute to Dr. A.H. Khan on his 13th death anniversary. This compilation of pieces highlights Dr. Khan's work and achievements. This work contains articles authored by well-respected and illustrious scholars in their field and includes poems from an expert on rural development. The articles also include statements and views of a number of prominent and learned persons on Dr. Khan. These articles contribute to the enrichment of scholarship in the fields of microcredit, rural development, poverty alleviation and self-reliance based development. The author and compiler, Nasim Yousaf, is a recognized historian and his works have been published globally in various mediums. Additional contributions have been included from the following distinguished persons: Professor Norman Uphoff of Cornell University, Professor Emeritus George H. Axinn of Michigan State University and Akbar Khan, son of Dr. Khan. This work includes bios of the author and contributors as well as information on Dr. Khan's children. Sources, where available, are included within or at the end of each article.

Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999)

Forthcoming 2018, in Key Thinkers on Development (2nd edition) edited by David Simon, London, Routledge., 2018

Akhtar Hameed Khan was a Pakistani official turned community development activist. After initiating the government’s Comilla rural development experiment during the 1960s he went on to found the Orangi Pilot Project, an innovative NGO working in Karachi. An early example of the ‘social entrepreneur’, Khan’s reflexive style also influenced many alternative development practitioners. His interest in connecting religious philosophy with development ideas was ahead of its time, and his work life history demonstrates the power of ‘sector swapping’, in which he built on experience acquired in one institutional sector (government) to work creatively in another (NGOs).

How Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan Led a Change Process That Started a Movement

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2014

In 1956, Akhtar Khan began a project in rural East Pakistan that inspired new approaches to community and organization development. A quarter century later, he replicated the developmental process in impoverished neighborhoods of Karachi. The techniques of shared decision making, building cooperatives, training the master trainers, and encouraging self-sufficiency were pivotal to the approach. The effect transformed the two communities and helped inspire microfinance. Using the lens of intentional change theory in a post hoc analysis, we explain why this approach worked. The article allows us to honor a social innovator while affirming our commitment to practices like participation to create and reinforce a shared vision, creating new resonant relationships, building a multilevel intervention with distributed leadership, inclusiveness in training for empowerment, and continuous attention to cycling through the process iteratively. These are offered as insights in the design of organization and community development efforts.

Development knowledge and experience - from Bangladesh to Afhanistan and beyond

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006

Problem In Afghanistan the challenges of development are daunting, mainly as a result of many years of conflict. The formation of a new government in 2001 paved the way for new initiatives from within and outside the country. BRAC (formerly Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), a Bangladeshi nongovernmental organization with a long history of successful work, extended its development model to Afghanistan in 2002. Local setting Provincial Afghanistan. Approach BRAC has implemented programmes in Afghanistan in the areas of health, education, microfinance, women's empowerment, agriculture, capacity development and local government strengthening, and has taken many of these programmes to scale. Relevant changes With a total staff of over 3000 (94% Afghan and the rest Bangladeshis), BRAC now works in 21 of the country's 34 provinces. BRAC runs 629 non-formal primary schools with 18 155 students, mostly girls. In health, BRAC has trained 3589 community workers who work at the village level in preventive and curative care. BRAC runs the largest microfinance programme in the country with 97 130 borrowers who cumulatively borrowed over US$ 28 million with a repayment rate of 98%. Lessons learned Initial research indicates significant improvement in access to health care. Over three years, much has been achieved and learned. This paper summarizes these experiences and concludes that collaboration between developing countries can work, with fine-tuning to suit local contexts and traditions.

Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development

lifelong practising social scientist, all his academic, administrative and organisational pursuits centred around practical development works that aimed at the upliftment of the poor and the depressed. A deep concern for these helpless people-their plight of poverty, ignorance and backwardness-tormented his life and shaped the course of his thoughts and action.

CV of Shahab Mughal (2017).doc

Dr Shahabuddin Mughal is presently working with Sindh Development Studies Centre, University of Sindh @ Jamshoro as Professor. Previously he has been working with Agricultural & Rural Development Research Centre (ARDRC), Sindh Agriculture University, Tando Jam as a Deputy Director for about five years (1995-2000). He possesses twenty six years' varied experience in research, teaching/training, administration, project / programme management, local economic development plans, local economic empowerment, community mobilization and development consultancy. He has worked with several international development agencies in their projects including Statistical Data Collection of Coastal Belt of Sindh Province, Benefit Monitoring & Evaluation (BME) Study of Kotri Barrage Rehabilitation Project, BME study of Sindh Forestry Development Project, Govt. of Sindh. These studies were funded by Asian Development Bank. Socio-Economic Impact Evaluation Studies of SCARP North Rohri Pilot Project, and Left Bank (Indus River) Outfall Drain Project (LBOD) in Sindh Province of Pakistan, both studies were funded by World Bank. Dr. Mughal specializes in local economic development plans, local economic empowerment, community mobilization, participatory communication development, project design, planning and implementation, managing agro-economic surveys, field data management and benefit monitoring and evaluation of development projects. His areas of expertise also include participatory development, socio-economics, institutional development, water resources management, disaster management & preparedness, agricultural economics, urban / rural development. From the last thirty years, he has been associated as a development specialist with a number of national and international NGOs working in Pakistan such as Indus Consortium, LHDP, SPO, SAWFCO, Takhleeq Foundation, Save the Children UK, European Commission for Humanitarian Office (ECHO), CHIP Switzerland, World Vision, Oxfam UK. Dr. Mughal is well acquainted with the socio-economic issues and urban/rural institutions of Sindh.