Opening the doors of opportunity to everyone!
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 resources on The Learning Hub focus on:
Why The Learning Hub?
By making learning accessible and engaging, we can open the doors of opportunity to everyone.
It is through partnerships with local communities, civil society, and business as well as governments and international aid agencies, that we can bring about transformative and long-lasting improvements to quality of life and build a future where we all thrive together.
Who is The Learning Hub for?
Continue your professional development journey and build your organisation's capacity.
Deepen your knowledge and assign high-quality continuing professional development (CPD) courses to your staff.
Strengthening development practitioners. Empowering communities.
Our story
“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.
Together, we had set out to solve a problem encountered by many of the more than 40,000 civil society organisations (CSOs) AKF works with 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 (HCD) 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
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.
Today, The Learning Hub has grown to a network of more than 150 partner organisations around the world. We work with:
Content development partners
To design and develop high quality locally relevant learning content. Our content development partners include organisations, volunteers, community members, as well as Aga Khan Foundation staff.
Content dissemination partners
To deliver and disseminate learning content to communities and organisations who can most benefit from the learning resources on The Learning Hub.
Funding partners
To produce high quality learning materials.
To see the full list of our content development partners to date.
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