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AHKRC Library

Dr. Akhter Hameed Khan, an outstanding social scientist of our time, was recognized globally for his pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of poverty alleviation through social mobilization. His remarkable achievements include his work at the Rural Development Academy in Comilla (Bangladesh), the Daudzai Integrated Rural Development Programme (IDRP) in NWFP, AKRSP in the northern areas and the famed Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi. He emphasized that no country could prosper unless the poor were made an integral part of the development process.

The guiding principle for the RSPs' work is that social mobilization is the cornerstone of social development that allows people to harness their own potential to change the quality of their lives.

In 2000, the NRSP Institute of Rural Management in Islamabad commemorated his life-long services by establishing the Akhter Hameed Khan Resource Center (AHKRC). The Rural Support Programmes Network (RSPN), a strategic think tank and a networking mechanism for the Rural Support Programmes in Pakistan, supports the center. The AHKRC is a repository of the RSP's work, as well as a variety of information about poverty alleviation and development in Pakistan and South Asia.

Reference Library holdings
Nearly 9,000 titles on the following subjects:

	Poverty alleviation
	Rural & urban development
	Participatory development
	Agricultural Economics
	Banking, Finance and Accounting
	Economics and micro-finance
	Small business and entrepreneurship
	Livelihoods and employment
	Education and adult literacy
	Human resource development and management
	Infrastructure development and civil engineering
	Law and legislation
	Mass media & communications
	Natural resource management and the environment
	Water and sanitation
	Population statistics
	Maternal and child health
	Biographies and autobiographies
	Social science research
	Gender and development

Magazines and Journals

AHKRC subscribes to numerous development and poverty-related periodicals, human development reports, government publications from Pakistan and South Asia, such as Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) journal, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) reports, as well as international journals like Development and Cooperation, The Economist, Fortune and Natura etc.

Audio Visual Library

AHKRC has an archive of more than 1,500 digitized documentaries, a vast collection of audio-video digital recordings and a wealth of digitized photographs dating back to the late 1980s, covering the evolution of the RSP movement in Pakistan.

AHKRC Facilities and Services

As part of its modernization programme AHKRC is developing a web portal and a digital library which will be functioning from the beginning of 2007. The resource center offer web browsing which allows users to link with online libraries, archives and research facility.

Write Shop

At the Write Shop AHKRC staff collect and present information and document the work of the RSPs for other organizations across Pakistan and around the world. The Write Shop also offers quality research, writing, editing and printing services at competitive rates. Our clients include NGOs and UN organizations in Pakistan and throughout South Asia.

Graphic Studio

The AHKRC Graphic Studio does design and artwork for reports produced by NRSP and IRM, as well as for UN organizations, and national and international NGOs.