The organization since its establishment in 2009, works “To facilitate an enabling environment for building social capital for poverty reduction by mobilizing the communities towards sustainable development”. This aim is achieved with the close collaboration of partner communities and development organizations through a participatory, demand responsive, gender and poverty sensitive integrated development approach in the Khyber Paktunkhwa Province.

PADO interventions mainly focus on achievements in domains/program areas including, Human and institutional Development, Protection, Natural Resource Management , drinking water supply, environmental sanitation, education, agriculture, health & nutrition and disaster management.

PADO, though established in 2009 but its board members and staff has an extensive experience and history of working in various sectors of Human and institutional Development, Natural Resource Management , drinking water supply, environmental sanitation, education, agriculture, health & nutrition, disaster management and micro credit & enterprise, since 1981 due to their association with different organizations.