Welcome To
Development Resources International
ABOUT US
DRI is a knowledge-based enterprise with a mission to promote economic and social development in Myanmar and other developing countries. We respond to needs of our clients and partners through strategy and policy analysis and downstream solutions through implementation, training and social business.
WHAT WE DO
We offer our knowledge and expertise to government agencies, donor agencies, private sector and local communities in the areas of (i) local and sub-national development planning and budgeting, (ii) community-driven development and (ii) micro and small enterprises development.
FOCUS
We maintain a focus on capacity development in everything we do for our stakeholders and partners, with an emphasis on people, organisational system, process and institutions. We address capacity in its three dimensions: (i) capacity utilisation, (ii) capacity retention and (iii) capacity growth.
SERVICE LINE
We provide evidence-based knowledge content through consulting, research, training and downstream development solutions. Our services respond to needs of our clients and partners, ensuring lasting solution. We address sustainability of development interventions through social business modelling.
Leadership
Managing Director Kyaw Naing and Director & Chief Technical Adviser Shafiquer Rahman are at the core of DRI’s leadership. They are founders of the company in May 2016 and each of them has more than twenty years of development and business experience with a strong track record in Myanmar, South and South-east Asia, the Pacific and Africa.
OUR CLIENTS AND PARTNERS
Our clients and partners, like our people are our most treasured assets. We nurture every client and partner relationship with commitment, respect and integrity.
OUR PROJECTS
We have delivered project assignments in Myanmar in the thematic areas of:
- Municipal development planning, budgeting and financial management
- Village development planning and investment programming
- Rural community-driven development
- Township development planning
- Access to capital for enterprises – linking micro and small enterprises to mainstream financial institutions
- Rural livelihoods and group-based savings and loan, schemes enabling poorer rural households to have access to small capital finance
Business enterprise formation and development
- Rural renewable energy