About Us

Afghanistan Development and Assistance Organization (ADAO) is national NGO which is established 16 years ago (founded in 2006) by a group of young and professional Afghans to work on the development of Agriculture, sustainable livelihoods opportunities to support most vulnerable communities both urban and rural areas consequently will have access to better education, primary health care, good governance, and eventually improved sustainable community development. The Organization is registered under the Ministry of Economy/ Department of NGOs, Reg. No. 697, 2006 and in Ministry of Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled, Reg. No. 124, 2014. DUNS No. 6490-G-74, NCAGE No. 496911_MP. Recently, due to the political change and looming of society in humanitarian crisis, the leadership of ADAO swiftly changed its mission to emergency response to become one of the highlighted partner.
The vulnerable communities in ADAO targeted areas and Afghanistan in general live in extremely poor and under-developed conditions. Their livelihoods are broadly based on subsistence farming and pastoralism with limited opportunity to earn wages.
Successive conflicts, droughts and famine had eroded the livelihoods coping mechanisms of these communities. The negative occurrences instigated a huge number of civilian population displaced internally and refugees’ camps in neighboring countries.
ADAO’s humanitarian and development intervention programs are holistic, people-centred, community based and sustainable. Therefore, sustainable livelihoods approaches are adopted for all ADAO strategic and short-term program focus in Afghanistan.
ADAO sustainable livelihoods program interventions only add to the current humanitarian and developmental commitments in Afghanistan, by utilizing principally home-ground solutions to vulnerable community challenges and needs. ADAO corresponds to the existing international and national humanitarian and development strategies.
Since inception, the organization was successful to implement a number of emergency and development projects in cooperation with the locals, UN and international agencies. These projects benefited a large number of the most vulnerable communities in Afghanistan. It created credibility, good-track record, close collaboration with the all stakeholders; local authorities, communities and donors. It has now transformed into well-established NGO competent of implementing multiple projects simultaneously.