Radanar Ayar Rural Development Association is Myanmar Not-for-Profit Association working on the ground for the rural development and emergency aid. Radanar Ayar's funded entirely by voluntary donations and its goes directly to rural poor in humanitarian aid and advance modelling ways of sustainable solutions with food security, free from hunger and ensure health and rights. Their Mandate is an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims and rural poor and other situations of violence. It takes action in response to emergencies and at the same time promotes respect for their rights.

History

In the aftermath of Nargis, the group who would later go on to establish Radanar Ayar used their own resources to help affected farmers in the cyclone-devastated areas. These include rice millers and rice traders who are also private philanthropists. Radanar Ayar Association was first founded as a sister-organization of Myanmar Rice Industry Association. It subsequently registered as a not-for-profit, non-religious, non-political and non-partisan organisation in 2010. Radanar Ayar works in the thematic areas of Basic and Non-Formal Education, Basic Health Care Services, Environment and Climate Change, Agricultural Livelihoods and Rural Poverty Reductions. Radanar Ayar Association is active in all eight priorities of the Government of the Republic of Union of Myanmar’s Eight Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Plan, which is set in the areas of;

• - Development of Agricultural Productivity
• - Development of Livestock Breeding and Fisheries
• - Development of Rural Small-Scale Productivity
• - Development of Micro-Saving and Credit Associations
• - Development of cooperative Tasks
• - Development of Rural Socio-Economy
• - Rural Energy
• - Environmental conservation

It is critical to Improve local food security and rural development focus by investing in agricultural productivity, infrastructure, social protection and the opening of markets is one of the ten development objectives for the development assistance program. Food security underpins all other development, as without it food insecure populations priorities on food and sustaining their own lives and those of their families over everything else. Radanar Ayar’s approach to food security is centered on increasing the availability of food through production and improving trade, while also increasing the poor’s ability to access food.

Radanar Ayar has prioritized three pillars to improve outcomes in food security:

• - Lifting agricultural productivity through agricultural research and development
• - Improving rural livelihoods by strengthening markets and market access
• - Building community resilience by supporting the establishment and improvement of social protection programs.

These three pillars aim to increase the food available in markets and poor households and increase the incomes and employment opportunities of poor men and women. Food security expenditure is expected to grow strongly over the next few years, particularly in delta. Results in achieving better food security outcomes include reducing the number of people living on less than USD 1 a day, reducing the number of people suffering from hunger and achieving opportunities for full and productive employment. Radanar Ayar Missions involves in poverty alleviations and rural economy development based on agriculture. Radanar Ayar founded aftermath of Nargis storm relief operations and mandatory actions for disaster managements of both disaster preparedness and response actions.

Lining Responses, Relief and Resettlements to Development (LRRD) is the mission of Radanar Ayar’s Programme. Accountability and learning is one of the Radanar Ayar’s missions that initiated to support CSO movements in country programme. Public and Private Partnerships (PPP) is their development concept that ensure for cooperate social responsibility (CSR) to private sector. Organisation set out the private linkage regulations and follows the international laws and conventions of the United Nations. 

Vision

Building resiliency of rural community fostering dialogue to fight poverty and benefits for sustainable development

Missions

Poverty reduction by offering an enabling environment to all stakeholders through improved governance and environmentally feasible for the right-livelihood interventions and Partnership building at all levels will supplement and ensure the goal of sustainable development which is socially, environmentally, politically and legally feasible missions of emergency and development conditions.  

Objectives

• - Enhance the capacity of rural people against extreme poverty and hunger that fight back by themselves.
• - Empower local civil society institutionalize itself and network for the regional cooperation mechanism that support to integrated rural developments.
• - be engaged in high quality and effective transformational development programmes that contribute towards positive change in rural people’s lives
• - work and advocate together for changes in the structures and systems which impoverish and marginalise people, with particular attention to the needs of women, children and other vulnerable groups.
• - assist on disaster risk reduction programmes, emergency preparedness and post - emergency relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction of rural people.
• - work closely with other national, regional and international ecumenical, non-profits and civil society organisations that share similar objectives.

Competencies

Radanar Ayar Missions involves in poverty alleviations and rural economy development based on agriculture. Radanar Ayar Association founded aftermath of Nargis storm relief operations and mandatory actions for disaster managements of both disaster preparedness and response actions. Accountability and learning is one of the Radanar Ayar’s missions that initiated to support CSO movements in country programme. Public and Private Partnerships (PPP) is their development concept that ensure for cooperate social responsibility (CSR) to private sector. Organisation set out the private linkage regulations and follows the international laws and conventions of the United Nations. Radanar Ayar is a Signatory to UNFCCC, UN Global Compact and ARC2020 Conventions.