About Us
The Africa Diaspora Partnership for Empowerment and Development (ADPED) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization composed of people of all races, gender, creeds, ethnic and nationalities, who are bound together by a common commitment to assisting the poor and their communities to achieve self-reliant social and economic development. ADPED accomplishes this by developing and strengthening strategic alliances between individuals, the civil society, local communities and their indigenous institutions, and the international development community. ADPED members, associates, partners and sponsors are committed to contributing their talents, resources and time towards the goal enhancing Africa's potential for self-reliant, and sustainable economic, social, political and cultural development.
Our Vision
A vibrant, self-reliant Africa, that is able to take its rightful place in the global arena. A continent whose inhabitants are able to maximize their human and social capitals in order to fulfill their full potential and claim their inalienable rights to a good life. An Africa whose peoples are able to overcome their narrow provincial, ethnic and national tendencies, and come to the full realization of their common destinies, and hence are able to work together as one indivisible unit to confront the poverty, violence and diseases that ravage the continent. This is the African challenge.
Our Mission
The mission of the Africa-Diaspora Partnership for Empowerment Development (ADPED) is to promote self-reliant, community-led sustainable development in Africa and the Diaspora. ADPED’s raison d’être (reason for being) is to provide an institutional framework for empowering peoples and communities especially in Africa and the Diaspora, to achieve self-reliant sustainable livelihoods through strategic alliances and partnerships among people and institutions who are committed to contributing their talents, time, and resources towards achieving the vision of an economically vibrant, socially, and politically stable Africa that is able to take its rightful place in the community of humanity.
