The Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD) is a Liberia-based network of community-based organizations as well as pro-poor enterprises and informal organizations from across Liberia, working in solidarity to address the numerous problems confronting and affecting rural poor, urban slums and squatter communities, and newly emerging and independent labor unions in Liberia.
ARD’s core objectives are:
- Campaigning for greater public participation in the decisions that affect the management and control of Liberia’s natural resources and its economy.
- Monitoring and assessing the compliance levels of Government and other stakeholders on established human rights standards and/or in relations to economic, social and cultural rights in Liberia.
- Networking, sharing and documenting work, activities or programs initiated by member organizations in their respective communities in relations to economic, social and cultural rights.
- Ensuring that corporations act as good corporate citizens with regard to human rights, social responsibility and environmental sustainability.