CONTRASAD believes that participatory approaches in program planning, implementation, evaluation and sustainability of all stakeholders concerned are the best approach to achieve sustained outcomes.

Therefore, all programs and projects pay attention to community participation and ownership in planning, implementation and evaluation stages.

Due to collapse of public institutions in result Somalia civil which claimed loss of many lives and devastation public and private institutions and also employed lack order and systems had created vacuum of purgatory.  

In order communities to maintain their life and have systems that can support through self-help, Jubaland intellectuals together with the community had discussed and realized that establishing independent organization was the option, hence humanitarian and development agency had become necessity of which CONTRASAD was initiated, in the year of 2004.