Resources Oriented Development Initiatives (RODI) is a Kenyan Development organisation started in 1989 as a Community Based Organisation (CBO) interested in promoting alternative forms of agriculture within the reach of poor farmers. It was originally known as Organic Farming Outreach programme (OFOP).RODI is registered as an NGO under the NGO co-ordination bureau in Kenya and as a Charity in the UK.

RODI main office is in Ruiru, about 25 Km Northeast of Nairobi.

RODI’s mission is to reduce poverty, crime and re-offending by training school pupils and prisoners in organic agriculture, agro-processing, value addition, natural resource management and HIV/AIDS and drug and substance abuse prevention. 

This work is carried out through two strategic programmes:
• Schools Organic Agriculture Programme (SOAP) where we work with pupils to promote organic agriculture and to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS and drug and substance abuse. With the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse in Kenya, children are targeted for sex with the belief that they are not infected and for drug consumption and trafficking.  It is strategic to target pupils because their character is at formative stage and before onset of adolescence. Pupils are also good in peer education and passing on information to parents and the wider community.   

•  Prisoner Rehabilitation Programme (PREP) where prisoners are trained in preparation for crime free life by equipping them with skills and technology for self-support and for passing on to the community to speed up acceptance and reintegration and for fighting poverty, a major cause of crime. Ex-prisoners are followed up to monitor their performance and to work with them and their home communities.

Under this two main programmes mentioned above, RODI has 5 projects namely:

1. HIV/AIDS and Sexual Reproductive Health project

2. Table Banking project.

3. Communty and schools Hygiene, Water, Sanitation and Natural Resource Management Project.

4. Pre-trial Detainees and Crime Prevention Project.

5. friends of RODI.

RODI is currently working with 27 penal institutions, 25 schools and over 50 community groups in Nyanza, Western, Central, Rift Valley and Nairobi provinces.