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AENA is a national, non-profit organization that was born in 2004, was constituted in Assembly on August 12, 2006 and recognized as a national legal entity on October 20, 2006, whose order of the Minister of Justice is published in the 2nd supplement of the Republic Bulletin No. 20, Series III of May 16, 2008. It has been registered at the Nampula Registry Office under No. 58 on page 30 of book G-1 since July 2007.

​ The motivation for the creation of the AENA is the fact that despite many efforts to minimize rural poverty, problems of social, economic and cultural development of rural communities still prevail, with emphasis on food and nutritional insecurity, widespread illiteracy, poor exercise of citizenship, the unsustainable use, management and governance of natural and extractive resources, gender and climate injustice, as well as the lack of respect for the environment.