Agence de Développement Social (Algeria) / Social Development Agency

Created in 1996 by executive decree n 96/232 of June 29, 1996, the Social Development Agency "ADS" came to strengthen the institutional mechanism set up by the State in terms of social intervention in order to mitigate the economic fallout. and social issues generated by the implementation of the structural readjustment plan during the decade of 1990.

The ADS's statutory missions are to promote, select, choose and finance, totally or in part, by way of subsidy or any other appropriate means:

Actions and interventions in favor of poor populations;
Any work or service project of economic and social interest, involving a high labor intensity, initiated by any collectivity, community or public or private entity, with the aim of promoting the development of employment;
The micro-enterprise.