About Us

Resource mobilization

We want to diversify and create a stable funding base for operational sustainability by:

• Developing key competencies in resource mobilization;
• Strengthening networking capacities and build more networks;
• Exploring opportunities for unrestricted grants;
• Seeking and developing strategic partnerships with donors and foundations; and
• Strengthening relationship with current funders or foundations (UNDP, PAX and Misereor).

Institutional and human resource capacity development

We are seeking support for our institutional and human resource capacity development to:

• Enhance programme and administrative staff capacities in leadership and management;
• Foster institutional effectiveness in monitoring, evaluation and impact analysis;
• Mobilize adequate non-human resources and facilities for organizational efficiency and sustainability;
• Mobilize additional competent staff and volunteers;
• Strengthen staff welfare, motivation and retention schemes;
• Develop staff competencies in critical, technical areas of work; and
• Strengthen corporate governance.

The objectives of the organization are, to:

(a) Promote unity in diversity;

(b) Foster peaceful, democratic communities; and

(c) Contribute to building literate, educated, self-reliant, and prosperous communities.

South Sudan, the world’s newest state, emerged from several decades of armed liberation civil wars, and is still grappling with internal armed conflicts which have impoverished people, deprived them of quality formal education and production, and triggered ethnic communities to hate each other.

Moreover, available census data of 2008 reveal that South Sudan has 8.26 million people (now estimated to be 12 million people), of which

• more than half (51%) of the population is below the age of eighteen,
• 72% of the population is below the age of thirty
• 83% of the population is rural,
• 27% of the adult population is literate,
• 55% of the population has access to improved sources of drinking water,
• 78% of the households depend on subsistence crop farming or animal husbandry as their primary source of livelihood
• 51% of the population lives below the poverty line, i.e. they earn less than 1 US dollar per day (South Sudan National Bureau for Statistics 2008 and 2010).

With this scenario in mind, therefore, the people of South Sudan should get organized and thrive to restore a lasting peace so they can settle, engage in production and be healthy, educated, and prosperous.

Hence, it is against this background that the organization was named ‘Organizing People for Prosperity’, founded to inspire communities to thrive for a prosperous-democratic society where people are responsible stewards and united to promote peace and a high quality of life through equipping them with skills for peaceful-coexistence, resilience, and hard work.

AHD has its head office in Juba with a strong field presence in Juba and Mangalla Payam (Central Equatoria) and in Rumbek, Lakes State (though without an office there), reaching out to approximately 1 million people in both regions. Plans are underway to expand to Nimule, Eastern Equatoria State and to Kajokeji, Central Equatoria State.

 

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 status.
• 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 our 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.

Peacebuilding

We build cohesive, secure, and resilient communities by:

• Strengthening the social cohesion of communities;
• Strengthening community security;
• Developing community livelihoods to make communities resilient to negative effects of violent conflicts and other disasters;
• Providing psychosocial support to communities affected by violent conflicts and other disasters; and
• Protecting vulnerable social groups like children, youth, women and persons with disabilities from abuse or exploitation in conflict or emergency situations.

Education

We endeavor to increase the access of vulnerable children and youth to educational opportunities by:

• Lobbying people with a stake in education to provide resources to facilitate the government initiated Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP), and enroll vulnerable children and youth, who are above the normal school going age, to access quality basic education from the programme.
• Mobilizing scholarship opportunities for the most vulnerable children and youth, such as orphans, neglected girls, neglected children with disabilities, refugees, and children from very poor families, to enable them to enroll to school and attain quality education.
• Supporting both formal and non-formal (technical) vocational skills development programmes to facilitate the access of vulnerable out-of-school youth to these programmers, to enable them acquire life-long skills for immediate employment and generation of income.
• Mobilizing resources to facilitate teacher education programmes, focusing on training early childhood educators and primary school teachers.
• Mobilizing technical assistance and resources for improving basic literacy and numeracy in public and community-aided basic schools.
• Advocating and facilitating the teaching of art and craft in primary schools.

Health

We contribute to strengthening community health by:

• Increasing awareness of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections among adolescents and youth;
• Lobbying people and institutions who have a stake in community health to provide resources for improving the quality of community water and sanitation and hygiene; and

Responding to the nutritional needs of the most vulnerable groups of people such as children, lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, and the elderly in communities affected by violent conflicts or other disasters