Impacts
Completed Projects
Some Of Our Impacts
RIGHTS AND RICE FOUNDATION (RRF) has achieved 18 YEARS OF WORKING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ECONOMIC, COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT IN LIBERIA (2007 – 2023)
Below are some of the completed activities within different communities in Liberia.
1500 Zero Literate adults (male, female) became level one literate (write, spell name; respond to their numbers at the clinics)
Community residents in many communities participated in developing their community development plans and established Conflict Prevention Committees (CPCs)
Convened a CSO Working Group on Land Rights Reform along with CSOs to successfully championed the advocacy for passage of Liberia’s new Land Rights Law
Promoted multi-stakeholder processes, with other actors, around land rights and responsible agric investment, and established a Multi Actor Platform on Land Governance and responsible agricultural investment in Liberia, with 40 member organizations, including govt., CSOs, private companies, and research/academic institutions
Trained 1,500 community residents on provisions of Liberia new Land Rights Law in 45 communities; conflict mediation around land and promoted the Local Government Act
Capacitated farmers through farmers based organizations (FBOs) on farming as a business; organizational structures and management
Constructed 11 women peace huts and trained both males and females on how to effectively use those peace huts as mediation centers
Title: Supporting Communities Harmed by the New Liberty Gold Mine through Advocacy and Mediation
Objective: To ensure that Community Harmed by the NLGMP in Grand Cape Mount County get Redress
In 2021 with the support of RRF and the Inclusive Development International (IDI) a US based International NGO five communities (Jikandor, Jawajeh, Jenneh Brown, kinjor, and Gold Camp) harmed by the New Liberty Gold Mine in Liberia had a complaint filed and accepted against the German and French national development banks – DEG and Proparco to the Independent Complaint Mechanism (ICM) – for their links to the project through investments in FirstRand, a South African commercial bank that lent millions of dollars to the New Liberty Gold Mine project.