Akhtar Hameed Khan

**Akhtar Hameed Khan** (, dibaca ; 15 Juli 1914 – 9 Oktober 1999) adalah seorang ilmuwan sosial dan aktivis pengembangan Pakistan. Ia menjadi partisipator pengembangan pedesaan di Pakistan dan negara-negara berkembang lainnya. Sebagian besar kontribusinya adalah pendirian proyek komprehensif untuk pengembangan pedesaan, Model Comilla (1959). Hal tersebut membuatnya mendapatkan Penghargaan Ramon Magsaysay dari Filipina dan gelar Dektorandes hukum dari Universitas Negara Bagian Michigan. Ralph Smuckler menulis dalam bukunya, "Kolega-kolega Skandinavia saya dan penasihat-penasihat lainnya telah menominasikan saya pada Penghargaan Perdamaian Nobel"

## Kehidupan awal
Khan lahir pada 15 July 1914 di Agra. Ia termasuk dalam empat putra dan tiga putri dari pasangan Khansaahib Ameer Ahmed Khan dan Mehmoodah Begum. Ayahnya, seorang inspektur polisi, yang terinspirasi dengan pemikiran reformis Syed Ahmed Khan. Pada usia awalnya, ibu Khan mengenalkannya dengan puisi Maulana Hali dan Muhammad Iqbal, kotbah-kotbah Abul Kalam Azad, dan filsafat Sufi Rumi.

## Lihat pula
* Masyarakat sipil
* Wirausaha sosial
* Inovasi sosial

## Catatan

## Referensi

* Abadi, H. (2006). *Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan*. Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-547205-9 
* BARD (1983). *The Works of Akhtar Hameed Khan*. Volumes I–III. Comilla: Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development.
* Barmazel, S. (2005). "Orangi Pilot Project: An NGO Helping to Build Community" in O.P. Richmond and H.F. Carey (eds.) *Subcontracting Peace: The Challenges of NGO Peacebuilding*. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp.&nbsp;191–98. ISBN 0-7546-4058-2
* Chowdhury, A.N. (1990). *Let Grassroots Speak: People's Participation Self-Help Groups and NGO's in Bangladesh*. Dhaka: South Asia Books. ISBN 978-81-85054-79-7
* Chaudhuri, M.A. (1969). *Rural Government in East Pakistan*. Dhaka: Puthighar Ltd.
* Dowla, A. and Barua, D. (2006). *[http://www.kpbooks.com/pdf/dowla06_FM.pdf The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story] * (PDF). Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press. ISBN 1-56549-231-5
* Hasan, A. (1994). "Replicating the Low-Cost Sanitation Programme Administered by the Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan" in I. Serageldin, M.A. Cohen, and K.C. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.) *The Human Face of the Urban Environment, Proceedings of the Second Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development*. (19–21 September). Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. ISBN 0-8213-3320-8
* Hasan, A. (1996). "Introduction" in A.H. Khan *Orangi Pilot Project – Reminiscences and Reflections*. Karachi: Oxford University Press. pp. xi–xli. ISBN 0-19-597986-9
* Hasan, A. (1999). *Akhtar Hameed Khan and the Orangi Pilot Project*. Karachi: City Press. ISBN 969-8380-20-5
* Hasan, A. (2002). A model for government-community partnership in building sewage systems for urban areas. The experiences of the OPP-RTI  (PDF). *Water Science and Technology* Vol. 45, No. 8, pp.&nbsp;199–216.
* Khan, A.H. (1996). *Orangi Pilot Project: Reminiscences and Reflections*. Karachi: Oxford University Press. (editions: 1996, 1999, 2005). ISBN 978-0-19-597986-2
* Nigam, A. and Rasheed, S. (1998). "Financing of Fresh Water for All: A Rights Based Approach" in *UNICEF Staff Working Papers*. Evaluation, Policy and Planning Series, No. EPP-EVL-98-003.
* NRSP (2000). *In commemoration of The Life and Times of Akhtar Hameed Khan: Talks of Akhtar Hameed Khan at the National Rural Support Programme*. Islamabad: National Rural Support Programme (NRSP).
* Raper, A.F. (1970). *Rural Development in Action: The Comprehensive Experiment at Comilla, East Pakistan*. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-0570-X
* Valsan, E.H. (2005). "Leadership in Public Administration for Alleviating Poverty and Development: A Conceptual Approach"  (PDF), in J. Jabes (ed.) *The Role of Public Administration in Alleviating Poverty and Improving Governance*, NAPSIPAG. Manila: Asian Development Bank. ISBN 978-971-561-595-2
* Yousaf, Nasim (2003). *[[Allama Mashriqi]] and Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan: Two Legends of Pakistan*. New York: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4010-9097-5

## Pranala luar
* Akhtar Hameed Khan Memorial Award, di situs web Council of Social Sciences (COSS)
* AHK Resource Centre and Digital Library 
* AHK Photo Gallery  di situs web Institute of Rural Management (IRM)
* AHK Video Gallery  di situs web IRM
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