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About the foundationFounded in 2008 by Arif and Fayeeza Naqvi
Legal Status - Foundation Needs Addressed - Health and education Geographic Focus - Karachi, Pakistan Resources Given by Family/Firm - Financial, human, research & development Sources of Financing - $100m seed money from Naqvi family, further financing from external partners Ongoing Family Involvement - Arif and Fayeeza Naqvi, along with their two sons Ahsan and Faaris Naqvi and brother in law, Waqar Siddique, who are all Trustees of the Foundation |
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In the field of education, the Aman Foundation has already made significant progress in diversifying the sources of funding supporting their projects. AmanTech, the foundation’s vocational training program obtains 70% of its funding from external sources now, only four years after its inception; a program that gets brilliant college graduates to teach in public high schools obtains 60%.
Though not quite at the same level of sustainability, health projects are also attracting external funding. The government has agreed to fund ambulance services in two districts outside of Karachi and is seemingly impressed by the potential effect preventative health services like Aman can have on resources in over-stretched public hospital facilities too. “The government badly needs our services,” notes Jamil. Indeed, many government ministers have come to visit the Aman Foundation’s health projects. He is thus optimistic about the government’s future engagement – within a few years, he hopes they will be commissioning services based on the health ecosystem. The Foundation is keen to show not only the effectiveness of their schemes but also to provide costed models so that the government knows exactly what it would take to mainstream the Aman Foundation’s projects.
The sustainability and the buy-in of other donors are so important to the Aman Foundation that Jamil has recently stepped back, after seven years of CEO, to concentrate on external partnerships with the Pakistani diaspora, foundations, and government. A new CEO, Malik Ahmad Jalal, with a background at the Abraaj group has taken up the reins of the Foundation.
The stakes are particularly high for working with the government. Getting them to mainstream the services Aman has piloted would be the Foundation’s ultimate indication of success. Whilst Jamil’s experience in the private sector was that most firms avoided working with the government to avoid difficulties, this is unthinkable at Aman Foundation. The Foundation’s vision is that one day the government will be the primary actor in the space in which Aman is operating today. Only the government has the potential to bring these initiatives fully to scale by incorporating them systemically.
Though not quite at the same level of sustainability, health projects are also attracting external funding. The government has agreed to fund ambulance services in two districts outside of Karachi and is seemingly impressed by the potential effect preventative health services like Aman can have on resources in over-stretched public hospital facilities too. “The government badly needs our services,” notes Jamil. Indeed, many government ministers have come to visit the Aman Foundation’s health projects. He is thus optimistic about the government’s future engagement – within a few years, he hopes they will be commissioning services based on the health ecosystem. The Foundation is keen to show not only the effectiveness of their schemes but also to provide costed models so that the government knows exactly what it would take to mainstream the Aman Foundation’s projects.
The sustainability and the buy-in of other donors are so important to the Aman Foundation that Jamil has recently stepped back, after seven years of CEO, to concentrate on external partnerships with the Pakistani diaspora, foundations, and government. A new CEO, Malik Ahmad Jalal, with a background at the Abraaj group has taken up the reins of the Foundation.
The stakes are particularly high for working with the government. Getting them to mainstream the services Aman has piloted would be the Foundation’s ultimate indication of success. Whilst Jamil’s experience in the private sector was that most firms avoided working with the government to avoid difficulties, this is unthinkable at Aman Foundation. The Foundation’s vision is that one day the government will be the primary actor in the space in which Aman is operating today. Only the government has the potential to bring these initiatives fully to scale by incorporating them systemically.