Afghan Development Association (ADA) is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organization. It promotes and provides development and humanitarian services to the people of Afghanistan, in particular to the country’s rural population. With an overarching goal of ‘eradication of poverty from Afghanistan’, ADA was established in 1990 with a mission to provide emergency aid and humanitarian assistance to Afghan refugees in Pakistan. ADA now operates solely in Afghanistan and over the years it has transformed itself into the one of Afghanistan’s foremost development NGOs, although it continues to respond to natural and conflict-related emergencies in the country.
We enhance human dignity and quality of life through a multi-sectoral comprehensive approach including both humanitarian assistance and sustainable development programs
Our Vision is A cohesiv and thriving Afghan Society.
ADA endeavours to reach the most disadvantaged groups in Afghan society often under very difficult circumstances. Among those with whom ADA works are: farmers, poor families, community elders, religious leaders, youth, women, children, the unemployed and the uneducated, returning refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), disaster affected communities as well as a variety of community-based organizations.
With the ultimate goal of ‘eradication of poverty from Afghanistan’, ADA has increasingly focused its interventions on contributing · to more productive and sustainable livelihoods, particularly within the agricultural sector, and on strengthening basic education. Understanding that resolving conflicts at all levels of society is a prerequisite to successful development in Afghanistan, ADA has, in recent years, come to include Social Cohesion and Protection as a further focus of its program approach.
Most of the Afghans are displaced due to conflicts and return of refugees in huge number to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries as a result of political pressures, restricted asylum policies, and other varies reasons. In addition, Afghanistan is highly susceptible to natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides, droughts, avalanches and floods which destroy lives, homes and livelihoods. Therefore, ADA management has come to conclusion during general assembly to include humanitarian and disaster risk reduction as new thematic areas effective 3rd February 2020.
Through this journey for over 33 years to eradicate poverty from Afghanistan, ADA has the remarkable history of implementing various programs that were focused on human, infrastructure, economic and social development of the targeted communities along with providing essential support during emergencies in more than 28 provinces of Afghanistan with the generous support of available national and international funding agencies.
Currently, ADA is implementing projects in various aspects of livelihoods strengthening, informal education, social protection, humanitarian and disaster risk reduction across 11 provinces of Afghanistan.
Our Values
Our values prioritize empathy, integrity, and continual growth.
- Provinces where ADA currently implementing projects
