Action For Development is an Ethiopian Residents charity that evolved from the FAO-operated freedom From Hunger Campaign (FFHC/AD) which had been implementing various development & rehabilitation programs in the drought prone areas of Southern Ethiopia, since the mid-eigthies.
The FFHC/AD programme was operationalized through a project known as NGO programme of support for local agricultural rehabilitation initiatives.The project mainly focused on the rehabilitation of drought affected farmers in the drought prone areas of Southern Ethiopia.