Agency for Humanitarian Assistance and Development (AHD) is a national NGO that inspires and empowers people to build peaceful, united, and prosperous societies where everyone enjoys a high quality of life. Founded in January 2015, the organization is incorporated with Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) of the Republic of South Sudan with registration number 419. The organization was formerly called Organizing People for Prosperity (OPP). But this name was changed in September 2019 because there is a group of South Sudanese politicians named “Other Political Parties (OPP)” in the IGAD-mediated revitalized peace agreement of 2018. So, the change of name was to avoid this confusion. The organization is regarded by the communities we serve as a reliable mentor of youth in transformation leadership, an igniter of community progress, and an emancipator of women. We are an active member of the South Sudan NGO Forum and were the first Secretariat for the Youth Partners’ Forum (2016-2019) coordinated by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Republic of South Sudan. Energized by our motto “Inspiring Communities,” our values are nonviolence; nonpartisanship; respect for diversity; integrity; commitment; compassion; professionalism; and teamwork.

Core Philosophy

Our vision: what change do we want to bring?
• We envision a peaceful, united, and prosperous society where everyone enjoys a high quality of life.
Our mission: why do we exist?
• To inspire and empower people to build peaceful, united, and prosperous societies.

Our motto: what energizes us?
• Inspiring Communities.

Our core values: what guides our decisions and actions?
AHD is guided by the following core values in its day to day work:
• Non-violence: we do not support any form of violence and thus advocate for non-violent ways of resolving conflicts.
• Non-partisanship: we are non-political and neither do we side with any particular (political) parties.
• Diversity: we encourage multiculturalism and do not discriminate people on the basis of gender, sex, religion, cred, tribe, race, or social statuses.
• Integrity: our actions are pure and transparent, free from any form of corruption.
• Commitment: we remain committed to serving the best interests of the organization and of the people who are most in need of our service (s).
• Compassion: we are sympathetic and concerned about the suffering or misfortunes of others and will endeavor to alleviate human suffering within our limits of capacities or jurisdiction (s).
• Professionalism: we shall always exhibit the highest technical and moral standards of behavior in our engagements with all programme participants: children, youth, women, elders, persons with disabilities, community representatives and any other authorities. We have zero tolerance for any form of human abuse.
• Teamwork: all team members of AHD shall always collaborate with one another in performing duties or assignments towards achieving a common goal.