To create opportunities for people, particularly the vulnerable, to strive collectively to secure human and livelihood rights by strengthening their asset base and making institutions and policies pro-poor.

Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation's mission statement draws upon the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets) reproduced below:

The central feature of a livelihoods framework is that people possess different amounts of five types of basic resources or “capital”. These are important in their own right to people's well-being. They are also assets – ways of storing and transforming capital so as to achieve livelihood security.

The Sustainable Livelihoods framework lists natural, human, financial, physical, and social capital or assets. The assets included in Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation's mission statement are adapted, not replicated, from the Sustainable Livelihoods framework. They are:

While the separation between these assets is to some extent arbitrary, it is important to note that one type of asset can often closely be linked to another. For example, a household can draw on its social capital, in the form of collective identity in order to enhance access to produced capital.