Since her graduation from AUCA in 2018, Zuhro has been working with Accelerate Prosperity in several capacities, having risen through the ranks quite quickly. Accelerate Prosperity is a new global initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in Central and South Asia and provides technical expertise, creative financing solutions and market connections for small and growing businesses.
Zuhro’s work as an investment analyst has seen her be responsible for facilitating investments that accelerated more than 20 enterprises in Tajikistan in a single year. Simultaneously, as a project manager she has been responsible for the delivery of one of Accelerate Prosperity’s single largest donor projects with the European Union. Zuhro developed a series of recurring reports that enhanced the project’s forecasting and budgeting processes.
In addition, Zuhro has been collaborating with UNICEF Tajikistan to implement a series of bootcamps within the framework of the UPSHIFT project that empowers young people to identify challenges in their communities and create entrepreneurial solutions to address them. The four-day bootcamps that Zuhro organized with her team promoted social entrepreneurship and social innovations among marginalized adolescents and youths between the ages of 15 and 24 in remote areas of Tajikistan. One of these bootcamps provided the foundation for a startup created by two other U.S.-CAEF alumni, Nomnom.tj