By THE AGA KHAN – Posted Monday, June 15 2009 at 18:29 – Daily Nation Kenya
AS I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT the challenge of international development and its relationship to education, I have come to identify four key areas of concern.
These are issues which have engaged the Aga Khan Development Network for over two decades, including the innovative curricular planning of our schools and universities.
The first of these themes concerns the faltering instruments of government in many countries of Asia and Africa.
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kenya and Uganda, for example, are plagued by dysfunctional constitutional frameworks which ignore inherited traditions, poorly apportion responsibilities among central versus provincial authorities, fail to ensure equity and liberty for minority and tribal communities, and are unresponsive to their vast rural populations.
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Article is extracted from a speech by the Aga Khan during the graduation ceremony of the University of Alberta, Canada, on June 9, 2009.
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