The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. AKDN agencies conduct their programmes without regard to faith, origin or gender.

In India, programmes of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) span the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and address a broad spectrum of development issues ranging from cultural restoration to education quality, microfinance to health care. These initiatives include 82 schools and educational centres, a 137-bed multi-specialty acute care hospital in Mumbai, a rural support programme that has benefited 400,000 people in four Indian states and the restoration of a World Heritage site in the nation's capital.

AKF assigned the task of developing the Education Management Information System (EMIS) as an integrated information management resource for all stakeholders of their organisation as a tool for collecting, storing, integrating, processing, organizing, outputting, and marketing educational data and statistics in a timely and reliable fashion.