Welcome to One Direction Institute (ODI) – a social enterprise dedicated to transforming lives through research, innovation, and community empowerment. We bridge the gap between ideas and action, research and policy, and innovation and enterprise. From agribusiness to digital innovation, from community empowerment to climate resilience, we believe in simple, practical, and sustainable solutions to poverty eradication.
The mission of One Direction Institute is to foster evidence-based research to generate new innovations, validate the innovative research ideas for viability through Innovation/Incubation Labs and disseminate the research output to different stakeholders through tailored training programs through short courses and stakeholders engagements.

• We help communities to lift themselves out of poverty through Social Enterprises,
• One Direction Institute has eight programmatic areas