Akhter Hameed Khan (15 July 1914 – 9 October 1999) was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development.
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- Akhter Hameed Khan (15 July 1914 – 9 October 1999) was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development. His particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development, the Comilla Model (1959). It earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award from the Philippines and an honorary Doctorate of Law from Michigan State University. In the 1980s he started a bottom up community development initiative of Orangi Pilot Project, based in the outskirts of Karachi, which became a model of participatory development initiatives. He also directed many programmes, from microcredit to self-finance and from housing provision to family planning, for rural communities and urban slums. It earned him international recognition and high honours in Pakistan. Khan was fluent in at least seven languages and dialects. Apart from many scholarly books and articles, he also published a collection of poems and travelogues in Urdu.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan fue un activista del desarrollo y científicio social pakistaní, reconocido por sus iniciativas pioneras relativas al microcrédito y a las microfinanzas, las cooperativas de agricultores y los programas de capacitación rural en los países en desarrollo. Promovió el desarrollo rural participativo en Pakistán, Bangladesh y otros países en desarrollo y abogó ampliamente por la participación de la comunidad en el desarrollo. Su contribución más importante fue el establecimiento de un proyecto comprehensivo para el desarrollo rural, el Modelo Comilla, que lo hizo merecedor del Premio Ramon Magsaysay de Filipinas y de un doctorado en Leyes honorario de la Universidad Estatal de Míchigan. En los años 1980, Hameed inició una iniciativa de desarrollo comunitario bottom up de Proyecto Piloto Orangi, con sede en las afueras de Karachi, que se convirtió en un modelo de iniciativas de desarrollo participativo. Asimismo, dirigió muchos programas de microcrédito y autofinanciamiento, de provisión de alojamiento a planificación familiar, para comunidades rurales y barriadas urbanas. Estas acciones le concedieron reconocimiento internacional y altos honores en Pakistán. Hameed hablaba fluidamente, por lo menos, siete idiomas y dialectos. Además de muchos libros y artículos académicos, también publicó una colección de poemas y literatura de viajes en urdu.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan var en pakistansk samfunnsviter. Akhtar Hameed Khan arbeidet mye med utviklingsspørsmål og er kjent for sin pionerinnsats for mikrokreditt, jordbrukskooperativer og opplæringsprogrammer på landsbygden.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, född 15 juli 1914, död 9 oktober 1999, var en pakistansk underutvecklingsaktivist och samhällsvetare som har bidragit med tidiga utvecklingsinsatser som mikrolån och mikrofinansiering, jordbrukskooperativ och träningsprogram för jordbruk i underutvecklade länder.
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- Akhter Hameed Khan (15 July 1914 – 9 October 1999) was a Pakistani development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives, farmers' cooperatives, and rural training programmes in the developing world. He promoted participatory rural development in Pakistan and other developing countries, and widely advocated community participation in development.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan fue un activista del desarrollo y científicio social pakistaní, reconocido por sus iniciativas pioneras relativas al microcrédito y a las microfinanzas, las cooperativas de agricultores y los programas de capacitación rural en los países en desarrollo. Promovió el desarrollo rural participativo en Pakistán, Bangladesh y otros países en desarrollo y abogó ampliamente por la participación de la comunidad en el desarrollo.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan var en pakistansk samfunnsviter. Akhtar Hameed Khan arbeidet mye med utviklingsspørsmål og er kjent for sin pionerinnsats for mikrokreditt, jordbrukskooperativer og opplæringsprogrammer på landsbygden.
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, född 15 juli 1914, död 9 oktober 1999, var en pakistansk underutvecklingsaktivist och samhällsvetare som har bidragit med tidiga utvecklingsinsatser som mikrolån och mikrofinansiering, jordbrukskooperativ och träningsprogram för jordbruk i underutvecklade länder.
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