AISDA is an international award-winning local NGO with deep roots in Afar regional state with its head quarter in Addis Ababa. The organization has an excellent working relationship and reputation with donors, local government partners and different stakeholders. Key donors of the organization include USAID, Norway Development Fund, Save the Children International, OXFAM GB,  SK Foundation of the Netherlands, The Pharo Foundation UK, The Stars Foundation UK, The Global Giving UK, CARE Ethiopia, and Grief Packaging Charitable Trust. The main program interventions of AISDA are Health and Nutrition (with a special emphasis on Maternal and Child Heath & FGM), Livelihood, Climate Change Adaptation & Natural resources conservation, Livestock Health and development, WASH and Water development, Humanitarian and disaster responses, as well as disaster preparedness and response.