RDI is an international non-profit organization working to secure land rights for the world’s poorest people, those 3.4 billion chiefly rural people who live on less than $2 a day.

• Mission:
  RDI works to secure land rights for the world’s poorest people—those 3.4 billion chiefly rural people who live on less than two dollars a day.  RDI partners with developing countries to design and implement laws, policies, and programs concerning land that provide opportunity, further economic growth, and promote social justice.
  
• Vision:
  We envision a world free of poverty. We see a future in which all who depend on land for their well-being have secure land rights—one of the most basic, powerful resources for lifting oneself and one’s family out of poverty
  
• Objectives:
  • 1.Contribute to more equitable and efficient land policies, legislative frameworks, and their implementation in developing countries
    
  • 2.Assist developing-country governments, foreign aid donors, and NGOs with the design, adoption and incorporation of pro-poor land tenure practices into their programs and projects.
  • 3.Identify, develop, publicise and replicate successful models of land tenure reform
  • 4.Help women gain social and economic power by strengthening their access and rights to land
• Activities/Main areas of work:
  • RDI today is pioneering a revised agenda for land reform in the 21st Century, with currently active programs in seven countries. These include principal engagements in China, India, and Indonesia—three of the poorest and most populous countries of the world—and a multi-country initiative in these and other focus countries to secure equal land rights for women. RDI’s major initiatives/programmes include:
    
    (i) RDI’s Global Homestead Program: Ending poverty one plot at a time.
    
    RDI’s groundbreaking Global Homestead Program is helping to combat poverty in two of the world’s most populous and impoverished countries—India and Indonesia. RDI’s Global Homestead Program offers the world’s “poorest of the poor” a path out of poverty.
    
    (ii) RDI’s programs to strengthen women’s land rights
    
    RDI’s Women and Land Program focuses on the specific interests and needs of rural women, developing tailored solutions that address those interests and needs through secure land rights.
    
    Finally, RDI is forming a new program in Africa. Recent engagements in Uganda and Angola have pointed to opportunities for RDI to assist with rural land issues in these and other African countries.
    
• Coverage:
  India,China, Indonesia, Rwanda,Angola, Ucraine
  
• Beneficiaries:
  rural poor, with a specific focus on women