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Social Sector Development (SSD) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1999 and registered with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ministry of Commerce and Industry under the Societies Registration Act of 1860. Working alongside humanitarian partners, SSD has contributed to livelihood support, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), education, health, disaster risk reduction, and emergency response.

SSD played a vital role in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of earthquake-affected areas in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The organization remains committed to building resilience among disaster-affected, deprived, and underdeveloped communities throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the former FATA region.

Beyond its earthquake and development interventions, SSD has been an active partner in humanitarian clusters, responding to militancy-related displacement crises from the outset. In coordination with humanitarian partners, SSD provided shelter, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene education to nearly half of the internally displaced persons living in camps during peak emergencies, and continued to support their recovery and rehabilitation once they returned home.

SSD also responded proactively to the 2010 floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, delivering life-saving water, sanitation, and hygiene services during the emergency phase. With support from the United Nations and other partners, SSD facilitated early recovery by restoring damaged community infrastructure, revitalizing livelihoods, and promoting safer, more resilient communities through integrated development and disaster risk reduction initiatives across the province’s worst-hit districts.

Since 2004, SSD has successfully implemented more than 60 projects valued at over 10 million US dollars.

• Ensure equitable access to safe, high-quality basic services for marginalized and disaster-affected communities.
• Improve the socio-economic conditions of the most vulnerable populations.
• Organize and strengthen community-based organizations to foster self-reliance.
• Increase awareness of health and hygiene to help lower mortality, with a focus on infant health.
• Strengthen and integrate the most vulnerable and marginalized groups within their communities.
• Equip at-risk groups to cope with natural and human-made disasters.
• Coordinate closely with government bodies and humanitarian organizations to address emergencies, early recovery, and long-term development needs.

• Accountability
• Transparency at every level
• Respect for diversity
• Mutual trust
• Gender equity
• Impartiality
• Sharing knowledge, learning, and skills with development partners
• Team culture
• Cost effectiveness
• Commitment to quality

• Water, sanitation, and hygiene education
• Disaster risk reduction
• Community physical infrastructure
• Education
• Child protection
• Livelihood
• Local governance
• Appropriate technology development and promotion
• Participatory development
• Advocacy on rights
• Emergency assessment, response, and reconstruction

• Gender equality
• Environmental protection