The Center for Development Research and Interventions (CDRI) is a non-profit organization founded to conduct social science and behavioral research and to identify social and behavioral interventions that offer solutions to the numerous socioeconomic, health and other problems in Sri Lanka and elsewhere. In addition to making recommendations to relevant authorities, the CDRI aims to devise strategies to intervene directly to ameliorate problems, create awareness among the general public through the media, and enhance the social capital of communities.