The answer to South Sudan's crisis will be South Sudanese.

Born from experience. Built for ownership.

The Agrarian Livelihoods Development Organization was founded and registered in 2026 by South Sudanese professionals, peacebuilders, educators, gender advocates, and community leaders who had spent their careers inside the international aid system and understood both its power and its limits.

For more than a decade, the global humanitarian community has promised to shift resources and decision making to national organizations. The promise is called localization. The delivery has lagged: by most estimates, well under five percent of humanitarian funding reaches national and local organizations directly. ALDO exists to be ready when that promise is kept, and to prove, program by program, why it should be.

We are dedicated to improving agroecosystems, food security, nutrition, and sustainable development among vulnerable communities, working across water and sanitation, education, advocacy, climate resilience, gender equality, and youth empowerment to build resilient and self-reliant communities.

Structured for scrutiny.

Governance. ALDO is governed by a General Assembly, which elects a Board of Directors. The Board appoints and oversees the Executive Director, who leads a Programs Director and eight departmental managers covering food security and livelihoods, health, nutrition and WASH, education, protection, monitoring and evaluation, communications, partnerships, and finance and administration.

MEAL. A Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning framework underpins evidence based programming, with participatory monitoring, community feedback desks, hotlines, and suggestion boxes ensuring two way communication with the people we serve.

Safeguarding and PSEA. We maintain strict child safeguarding and Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse standards, embedded in recruitment, training, and program design. Do No Harm is a design principle, not a slogan.

Localization in practice. We work through community rooted structures, chiefs, women's groups, and local volunteers, so that what we build remains when a project ends.