The Rural Empowerment and Agricultural Development Scaling up Initiative (READSI) program is a program that aims to improve the welfare of poor farming families through empowering rural farming households and utilizing resources to increase income in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.

The goal of the READSI Program is that rural households in Sulawesi (Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Gorontalo), West Kalimantan and NTT are empowered both individually and collectively with skills, confidence and resource management to increase their income and livelihoods and non-farming in a sustainable manner.

The target groups of the READSI program are (1) Poor farmers who own land for agricultural activities and actively participate in improving economic activities in the agricultural sector; (2) Active farmers who can be used as examples and will act as “agents of change” who have the potential to demonstrate and motivate farmers to increase their livelihood income; (3) Landless farmers and narrow landowners who have the potential to be facilitated to develop their resources as a source of family income; and (4) Households with female heads of households who will be facilitated through yard development activities, increased awareness of nutritional improvement, and household financial management.