• Contact: Mr James M. Yarsiah
  • Address: Paynesville Joe Bar, Behind Zone 5 Police Station, Paynesville City, Monrovia
  • Phone: +231 886 549 280
  • Email: rightsrice@gmail.com
  • Web: rightsriceliberia.com
  • Members:
    RRF

RRF

Rights and Rice Foundation

2018

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure equitable land distribution and public investment that supports small-scale farming systems, including through redistributive agrarian reforms that counter excessive land concentration, provide for secure and equitable use and control of land, and allocate appropriate land to landless rural producers and urban residents, whilst supporting smallholders as investors and producers, such as through cooperative and partnership business models.
2

Strong Small-Scale Farming Systems

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
4

Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Mission

The mission statement of the RRF is to promote social, economic and political rights through empowering people who suffer from injustice and lack equal opportunities.

Objectives

The programming of the RRF purposely links human and civil rights to economic, social and cultural rights. Its strategy its based on community empowerment and on helping people discover their human talents and potentials. The RRF also aims to enable the communities to fully participate in decision-making and to take positive action that will transform their lives, their communities and their country.

Constituencies

The Rights and Rice Foundation (RRF) is a non-governmental organisation that was established in 2007 with the overall aim of working for social justice and economic empowerment in Liberian society. The RRF's vision is of “an equitable society characterised by respect for the rule of law and equal opportunities for all.” 

  • Contact: Mr James M. Yarsiah
  • Address: Paynesville Joe Bar, Behind Zone 5 Police Station, Paynesville City, Monrovia
  • Phone: +231 886 549 280
  • Email: rightsrice@gmail.com
  • Web: rightsriceliberia.com
  • Members:
    RRF