Can Entrepreneurship Address Critical Global Challenges?

Accelerate Prosperity is a global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia which offers creative financial solutions as well as pre and post investment technical assistance to help grow early-stage businesses, startups, and innovative ideas.Accelerate Prosperity (AP) is one of the largest impact investment funds and enterprise growth accelerator in Central and South Asia.

Impact Odyssey 2.0 is one of the first regional campaigns by Accelerate Prosperity, a part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), aimed at highlighting and addressing pressing global challenges through compelling storytelling. Central to this campaign are the new impact odyssey documentaries, which come out every other friday which are poised to be the primary audiovisual medium driving the campaign’s narrative. The documentaries feature businesses from three of the four AP countries, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Five major themes are the backbone of the documentary series.

• Green and sustainable businesses
• Food Security /Productivity
• Equal access to health & education
• Addressing Contemporary Challenges and Technological Innovations
• Empowering local economies and digital transformations

About the speaker:

• Rohma is currently leading the Accelerate Prosperity Pakistan team to foster entrepreneurship and innovation across the country. Her work at Accelerate Prosperity has also entailed establishing blended learning systems for cross-border learning, as well as strategizing data-driven programs and innovative financing mechanisms for high growth and impact potential businesses. Through her previous work, Rohma has supported over 300 businesses in their growth journey, designed bespoke entrepreneurfocused programs and created strategies for support organizations in similar emerging markets. She has also had the opportunity to lead sustainability efforts within various grassroot level organizations in the country. Rohma holds a Master’s in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and a BBA from the University of Toronto.

About the moderator:

• Saifullah Nasar is a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is a Graduate Student Instructor at his university and previously taught at Quaid-e-Azam University and Air University in Islamabad. He is researching audit practices, anti-corruption practices and activism, and accountability in Pakistan, drawing inspiration and analytical insights from the anthropology of money. His research interests also include trade routes, commercial networks, and their role in shaping the fiscal authority of the state.

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