IVDO is a private non-political, non-profitable organization established in 1993 to respond the need for Somali people in order to sustain food security, strengthen capacity of local people, and promote peace building, good governance initiatives and tackle humanitarian crisis in south central Somalia.

IVDO is managed by independent non-partisan indigenous professionals whom have been experiencing practically & technically on various fields of capacity buildings of humanitarian sectors and community development projects as they have had special trainings (TOTs) to the sectors of humanitarian interventions, Human rights, child protection and capacity building programs.