Opening the doors of opportunity to everyone!
The Aga Khan Foundation's Learning Hub aims to open the doors of opportunity to everyone by combining local knowledge with global best practices and making them accessible as public goods.
What is The Learning Hub?
The Aga Khan Foundation's Learning Hub opens the doors of opportunity to everyone by combining local knowledge with global best practices and making them accessible as public goods, in more than 25 languages.
The Learning Hub shares free learning resources that combine local knowledge with global best practices. Developed by practitioners for practitioners, the learning resource on The Learning Hub focuses on:
Why The Learning Hub?
It is through partnerships with local communities, civil society, and business as well as government and international aid agencies, that we can bring transformative and sustainable change for a brighter future for all.
On The Learning Hub, localised content is created with the community’s needs in mind. Thanks to the low-cost production, local CSOs are incentivised to create their own content tailored to the communities they serve.
Who is The Learning Hub for?
Continue your professional development journey and build your organisation's capacity.
Assign high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) resources to your staff.
Sustainable Development Goal.
Strengthening development practitioners. Empowering communities.
What’s the story of The Learning Hub?
“Howmight we… re-imagine capacity building for civil society organisations?” The story of The Learning Hub can be traced back to this question asked by a team of Aga Khan Foundation, la Caixa Foundation, and civil society staff in Mozambiquein 2014.
The team had set out to solve a problem encountered by many of the morethan 25,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) AKF works across the world – thelack of readily accessible, high-quality, locally relevant, engaging, andpractical learning content. The first iteration of AKF’s blended learning model emerged from the human-centred design process that was used to find innovative solutions to this problem.
What’s the story of The Learning Hub?
“How might we… re-imagine capacity building for civil society organisations?” The story of The Learning Hub can be traced back to this question asked by a team of Aga Khan Foundation, la Caixa Foundation, and civil society staff in Mozambique in 2014.
The team had set out to solve a problem encountered by many of the more than 25,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) AKF works across the world – the lack of readily accessible, high-quality, locally relevant, engaging, and practical learning content. The first iteration of AKF’s blended learning model emerged from the human-centred design process that was used to find innovative solutions to this problem.
The model combined self-paced learning through fully localised video lessons produced in a low-cost fashion, followed by a short, highly engaging in-person workshop where learners could engage actively throughout the learning process.
This approach helped improve and standardise training quality, reduced the duration and cost of in-person training, and provided a more meaningful and dynamic learning experience – to audiences who wouldn’t have otherwise had access to such learning opportunities.
AKF's blended learning model has since been tested, iterated on, and scaled in collaboration with AKF staff, partners, communities, and practitioners around the world – and with a range of different target audiences. Today, teachers, farmers, entrepreneurs, government officials, and parents in Egypt, India, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, Madagascar, Mozambique, Portugal, Syria, Tajikistan, and many other countries will all find locally produced, relevant, practical, high-quality learning content in their own language or dialect on The Learning Hub.
Countries AKF serves
- Afghanistan
- Egypt
- India
- Kenya
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Madagascar
- Mozambique
- Pakistan
- Portugal
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
Who creates the content on The Learning Hub and how?
With the aim of democratising content creation and producing high-quality video content at extremely low cost, we rely on low-cost portable video labs and engage local non-professional but representative actors and narrators.
This allows for both cost effective content creation and content localisation. The Aga Khan Foundation has, over the years, shared this model with partner organisations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, so that they can autonomously create their own locally relevant learning content.
The Partnership Approach
To see the full list of our content development partners to date,
Visit partner pageToday, the Learning Hub has grown to a network of more than 140 content development partners around the world. We work with:
Funding partners
To produce high quality learning materials.
Content development partners
To design and develop high quality locally relevant learning content. These include partner organisations, volunteers, community members, as well as Aga Khan Foundation staff. Yes, many of the people you see in our video-based learning resources are standing in front of the camera for the first time!
Implementation partners
To deliver and disseminate learning content to communities who can most benefit from the learning resources on The Learning Hub.
To see the full list of our content development partners to date.
Visit partner page