Efficient Research & Development Institute

ERDI engages in food security interventions to improve local farmers knowledge and skills as well as enhancing their income generation from agricultural productivity in rural Liberia.

ERDI senior management team is in Sierra Leone on a 10-day inter-coutry project experience exchange trip. We're very grateful to our partners in Liberia and Sierra Leone including ERDI's Board and Staff. This trip wouldn't have been possible without the contributions of All We Can, UNDP, DAI, and USAID.

Efficient Research & Development Institute accredited by the National Elections Commission to carry out Civic Education and Voters Sensitization throughout Liberia during the up coming Presidential and Legislative Elections in Liberia this year 2023. Congratulations to the team.

ERDI concludes 2 days of training for 47 community members and local authorities in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County on women and youth land rights promotion. A project funded by ForumCiv for 39 month.

Glory be to God for a successful academic year kids and to our extraordinary staff and donor, the Mother Sarah William Gardea Foundation through Mr. McDonald Gardea through whom God made funding possible. This academic year we will reach 40 students in Nimba, Montserrado, B**g, and Grand Gedeh Counties because of the success we all achieved together. Welcome Back to School.

The Efficient Research and Development Institute with funding from UNDP/OHCHR concluded a 2-day training for 10 women CSOs in Nimba County on the identification and reporting of SGBV cases, creating awareness, and the Monitoring of the SGBV Specialized Criminal Court E situated in Sanniquellie, Nimba County. The training was made possible through the UNDP/OHCHR Joint programme title: Strengthening the Rule of Law in Liberia: Justice and Security for the Liberian People. Which is been implemented by the Efficient Research and Development Institute.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Liberia has agreed a partnership with the Efficient Research and Development Institute (ERDI) Inc. to implement the Strengthening the Rule of Law in Liberia: Justice and Security for the Liberian People Programme. Under this partnership, ERDI will strengthen the capacity of women-led CSOs to form network and monitor the efficiency of the Criminal Court E as well as provide legal aid and psychosocial support to victims and survivors of SGBV in Nimba County, Liberia.

Under its Education program 'Vulnerable Student Scholarship Program (VSSP)', the Efficient Research and Development Institute (ERDI) with funding from the Moth. Sarah Williams Gardea Scholarship Foundation based in the US has identified and provided 100% scholarship support including tuitions, admission fees, and academic materials such as uniform, book bags, shoes, copy books, and the likes to 10 primary school students in Nimba County, Liberia. The first set of supplies were provided April 27, 2021 with more support to come soon. This phase which is a pilot intervention will be extended to hundreds of students in other rural counties of Liberia. Special courtesy to Mr. McDonald Gardea.

Efficient Research and Development Institute (ERDI) Program Officer, Mr. Alex G. Vankan (right in yellow shirt) and others benefit from Risks Identification and Management in Program Management in Monrovia April 2021. The training was conducted by Madam Sara Beysolow Nyanti, Resident Coordinator, Head of United Nations System in Nepal to whom we remain very grateful.

ERDI staff (Leroy K.L Gweh) provides hygiene promotion knowledge and skills to young mothers and their children in Ganta, Nimba County amidst COVID-19 under ERDI's Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Initiative.

ERDI provides it's office facilities to the Ministry of Health for free and voluntary COVID-19 testing in rural Liberia. Thanks to ERDI's team also for the support.

ERDI Executive Director, Mr. Daniel Nya Gboe speaks to cross section of women on holistic support for women and girls and the ardent need to prevent sexual and gender-based violence at the launch of the Project: Supporting Women-Led Initiative to Enhance the Fight against Coronavirus Disease in Liberia. The Launch was on August 20, 2020 in Ganta City, Nimba County.