The A.R.D.E/KUBAHO was founded in 2002 by students of the following national higher learning institutions: KIE, KIST, ISAE/Rubirizi, KHI, and NUR/Butare. The main ideas of the founding members were to contribute to the development of good environmental actions and research for the development of co-citizens. 

In 2007 some members (alumni) and other citizens (farmers, students, artists, development and social action agents, nurses, etc.), in their meeting held in Kigali on 09/12/2007, decided to found a Rwandan Association for Endogenous Development ARDE/KUBAHO, to contribute to the welfare of the Rwandan population.