Edmund Rice Development (ERD) is a development agency dedicated to the liberation of people and communities from poverty and injustice. We support the sustainability of partner projects by sourcing funding, building donor engagement and working with our partners to improve development capacity. Between 2015-16 ERD provided funding and development support to a network of 44 international development partner projects and programmes in the areas of Education (formal and informal), Community Development and Advocacy. This work benefited over 56,000 people in 13 countries across Africa, India, Latin America and the Pacific Rim.ERD is committed to transparency and accountability, and to an efficient, effective operation that impacts positively on the lives of people made poor.www.edmundricedevelopment.org