caption death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date known_for residence prizes image article_title name alma_mater
akhtar hameed khan , 1973 9 october 1999 indianapolis , indiana , us bangladesh rural development , pakistan ; michigan state university academy for rural development ; national centre for agra , british india pakistani rural development , microcredit 15 july 1914 microcredit project , microfinance , comilla model , orangi pilot karachi , pakistan ; comilla , bangladesh ramon sitara-e-pakistan '' , jinnah award magsaysay award , '' nishan-e-imtiaz '' , '' akhtar hameed khan.jpg akhtar hameed khan
 dr akhtar hameed khan magdalene college , cambridge
akhtar hameed khan

akhtar hameed khan -lrb- , pronounced ; 15 july 1914 -- 9 october 1999 -rrb- was a pakistani development practitioner and social scientist .
he promoted participatory rural development in pakistan and other developing countries , and widely advocated community participation in development .
his particular contribution was the establishment of a comprehensive project for rural development , the comilla model -lrb- 1959 -rrb- .
it earned him the ramon magsaysay award from the philippines and an honorary doctorate of law from michigan state university .
in the 1980s he started a bottom up community development initiative of orangi pilot project , based in the outskirts of karachi , which became a model of participatory development initiatives .
he also directed many programmes , from microcredit to self-finance and from housing provision to family planning , for rural communities and urban slums .
it earned him international recognition and high honours in pakistan .
khan was fluent in at least seven languages and dialects .
apart from many scholarly books and articles , he also published a collection of poems and travelogues in urdu .
