OUR PROGRAMS

1. Agriculture and Livelihood

Program strategy particularly addresses SDG2 which refers to food security and sustainable agriculture. The strategy targets small and tenant farmers and agricultural and urban labor and to support Government departments and academic institutions in research and extension of good agricultural practices and promoting Climate Change resilience farming.

RDF is also implementing skill and business development training and services to enable gainful employment for youths and create alternate occupations to traditional farming.

2. Water and Energy Resource Development

Program is important to environmental development in rural areas. Rural communities, particularly in remote areas, do not have water and energy infrastructure and connections. They rely on rainwater and groundwater for their drinking, domestic and agricultural needs. Similarly, households and community rely on animal power due to the absence of electricity supply. At the same time due to commercial use and droughts, groundwater sources have depleted, and where electricity supply is available there is long hours of power outage and high cost of supply.

3. Health, Nutrition and Sanitation

Program stems from RDF’s WASH achievements. Major client groups are households and women groups. The main strategy is to improve WASH and nutrition of the vulnerable communities. RDF HNS program directly contributes towards SDG2 (End hunger and Food security), SDG3 (Healthy lives), and SDG5 (Water and Sanitation).

4. Education and Learning

Program aims to mobilize donor and philanthropic resources for the construction of schools; use of technology to improve teaching and learning, and organizing competitions and events to attract children towards learning. RDF promotes SMCs as the vehicle to implement the program and builds community-Government partnership through them to achieve the sector objective.

5. Community Resilience Building

Program merges humanitarian response, advocacy for human rights, gender equality and disaster risk reduction activities. At the heart of the program is to end discrimination and inequalities and build social harmony in the society. The program is proposed at the Provincial level and uses media and press to reach out to the entire Provincial population. RDF’s strategy is to research into risk management and resilience building strategies and to inform rural households and community groups and train them to respond to situations of disasters, accidents and conflicts. The program reduces structural inequalities and traditional discrimination particularly against women and minority groups and bringing to them citizenship and rights.

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