Agency Name:

Agency for Peace and Development (APD)

Main Mission:

APD has set out to facilitate lasting impressions through a set of objectives to achieve its mission:
- To improve livelihood of the pastoral communities through rehabilitation of local productions hence reduce human suffering in times of emergencies and vulnerabilities.
- Initiating development project in the areas for sustainable development that also embraces sound environmental conservation and management, hygiene and proper sanitation
- To empower capacity of the communities to manage their natural resources, promoting environmentally friendly projects and revival/preservation of indigenous fauna and flora.
- Improve the standard and quality of human life by alleviating of poverty through equitable distribution of resources to the community.
- Conflict resolution and response by re-directing individual and collective human energies and pastimes towards mutually productive engagements that forestalls a culture of respect for life and human dignity as well as universal human rights and peaceful coexistence in diversity.
- Creating awareness of HIV/AIDS transmissions and preventions by extending primary healthcare services and quality education that transcends conventional (traditional) pedagogue to incorporate life skills, knowledge and expertise on among others HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

Contact:

Contact Person:Ahmed Ali Dubow.
Email Address: apd_afm@yahoo.com
Telephone Number: +252-5-135284/+252-1-302121.
Location:Afmadow District.

Field Offices:

Fanoole, Wamo Road, Afmadow District - Lower Juba

Guduudey Location, Jilib District - Middle Juba

Partner Ngo’s In Somalia:

Agency Program Plans For 2009:

APD plans for various interventions in 2010 and these are among others:
1) Emergency and rehabilitation of basic infrastructure critical for service delivery in water, education and health.
2) Food security and development of production sector to diversify and support alternative sources of livelihoods.
3) Capacity building among community institutions that are important for public administration and service deliver
4) Improvement of educational standards through increased access, retention and promotion among the population of the Lower and Middle Jubba.
5) Literacy and skills development for women and other marginalised groups including girls and minority groups in the community