FOUNDING partners
YUNUS CENTER AIT
The Yunus Center at the Asian Institute of Technology (YCA), founded and co-chaired by Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, promotes enterprise-led solutions for development challenges, with a particular emphasis on poverty alleviation and sustainable livelihoods. As the first among 107 university-based centers, YCA draws on knowledge infrastructure worldwide focusing on practical action and social impact.
RIZQ
Rizq Trust is a social enterprise transforming Pakistan’s food security landscape since 2015, by leading food-based innovation, mobilizing communities locally and globally, and leveraging strategic partnerships throughout the food and energy sector. With five divisions spanning the food value chain from farm to fork, Rizq aims to ‘build back better’ Pakistan’s WEF (Water-Energy-Food) systems, as well as those beyond.
OUR AIM
Becoming the world’s leading clearinghouse for community-based innovative knowledge products and evidence-based solutions in the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus.
Our Approach
Our work is grounded in participatory action research, capacity building, and strategic development of social business models.
Action Led Research
Through pilot projects and demonstrations
Community Engagement
Active engagement with local communities
Capacity Building
Training workshop's and seminars
Social Business Development
Turning research into real world, self sustaining business models
Policy Advocacy
Engaging with decision makers and disseminating knowledge
OUR RESEARCH AREAS
Climate Smart Agriculture
Social Business Development
Sustainable Energy Transition
Food Waste Management
Water Policy management
WE WORK WITH
Grassroots Communities
Research Institutions
Academic Institutions
Development Organizations
Business Enterprises
Policy Makers
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