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Dr.
Akhter Hameed Khan, an outstanding social scientist
of our time, was recognized globally for his pioneering
contributions to the theory and practice of poverty
alleviation through social mobilization. His remarkable
achievements include his work at the Rural Development
Academy in Comilla (Bangladesh), the Daudzai Integrated
Rural Development Programme (IDRP) in NWFP, AKRSP
in the northern areas and the famed Orangi Pilot
Project in Karachi. He emphasized that no country
could prosper unless the poor were made an integral
part of the development process.
The guiding principle
for the RSPs' work is that social mobilization
is the cornerstone of social development that
allows people to harness their own potential to
change the quality of their lives.
In 2000, the NRSP Institute of Rural Management
in Islamabad commemorated his life-long services
by establishing the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource
Center (AHKRC). The Rural Support Programmes Network
(RSPN), a strategic think tank and a networking
mechanism for the Rural Support Programmes in
Pakistan, supports the center. The AHKRC is a
repository of the RSP's work, as well as a variety
of information about poverty alleviation and development
in Pakistan and South Asia.
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Reference
Library holdings
Nearly 8,500 titles on the following subjects:
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Poverty
alleviation
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Rural
& urban development
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Participatory
development
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Agricultural
Economics
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Banking,
Finance and Accounting
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Economics
and micro-finance
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Small
business and entrepreneurship
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Livelihoods
and employment
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Education
and adult literacy
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Human
resource development and management
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Infrastructure
development and civil engineering
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Law
and legislation
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Mass
media & communications
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Natural
resource management and the environment
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Water
and sanitation
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Population
statistics
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Maternal
and child health
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Biographies
and autobiographies
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Social
science research
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Gender
and development
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Magazines and Journals |
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AHKRC subscribes
to numerous development and poverty-related periodicals,
human development reports, government publications
from Pakistan and South Asia, such as Pakistan
Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) journal,
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
reports, as well as international journals like
Development and Cooperation, The Economist, Fortune
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Audio Visual Library |
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AHKRC has an archive
of more than 1,500 digitized documentaries, a
vast collection of audio-video digital recordings
and a wealth of digitized photographs dating back
to the late 1980s, covering the evolution of the
RSP movement in Pakistan. |
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AHKRC Facilities and Services |
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As part of its modernization
programme AHKRC is developing a web portal and
a digital library which will be functioning from
the beginning of 2007. The resource center offer
web browsing which allows users to link with online
libraries, archives and research facility. |
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Write Shop |
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At
the Write Shop AHKRC staff collect and present information
and document the work of the RSPs for other organizations
across Pakistan and around the world. The Write
Shop also offers quality research, writing, editing
and printing services at competitive rates. Our
clients include NGOs and UN organizations in Pakistan
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Graphic Studio |
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The
AHKRC Graphic Studio does design and artwork for
reports produced by NRSP and IRM, as well as for
UN organizations, and national and international
NGOs. |
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