IDE maintains eight country programs in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa. For more information on IDE's Current country programs please see below.
With work beginning in 1984, IDE Bangladesh is the oldest of IDE's existing country programs. Early on, IDE came across a locally-invented treadle pump with great promise.
IDE works primarily in rural areas, where the majority of Cambodia’s poor live, and in two sectors that are critical for rural livelihoods: agriculture and water & sanitation.
ETHIOPIA
IDE is currently in the process of registering to conduct projects in Ethiopia. Please watch this space for further announcements.
IDE-Myanmar focuses our efforts on rural small farm households earning less than $2/day living in the most densely populated areas in both lower and upper Myanmar.
In Nepal, IDE pioneered the development of low-cost drip irrigation systems, which are now playing an important role in IDE's worldwide poverty alleviation efforts.
IDE began in Vietnam by promoting treadle pumps but soon found that there was little demand for the technology. IDE responded by shifting gears and applying market-based principles to areas that met the needs and priorities of the rural poor.
In Zambia, IDE's first African country program, IDE has found that low-cost irrigation is a very practical way to address the poverty and hunger that have accompanied two decades of recurring droughts and economic decline in Zambia.
Zimbabwe has a high population density with a well developed infrastructure. The country was once southern Africa’s breadbasket with surplus produce for export to the region.
Our Life is Much Better An IDE Success Story from Zambia
Before learning about IDE, Peter Chakanyuka, along with his wife and six children, farmed a ½ hectare plot of land. Depending upon rain for irrigation, his family could only grow maize and peanuts, with yields that were too small to sell.
After purchasing a treadle pump from a local IDE representative, the Chakanyuka family increased its irrigated land to more than two hectares in a single season...
I Am Not Worried About My Children's Future An IDE Success Story from Bangladesh
“Four years ago, I thought poverty was my destiny, a chain that confined me, and was going to confine my family too,” says Nazrul Islam, whose family of five lived on less than a dollar a day prior to learning about IDE’s treadle pump program in Bangladesh...
A Good Job and a Secure Future An IDE Success Story from Vietnam
Years of war have left Phu Da commune with vast areas of sandy, infertile land pockmarked with bomb craters. IDE’s affordable hand pumps enabled farmers in Phu Da to grow better quality, high value crops even during the dry season. But, thanks to IDE’s entrepreneurial approach, it’s not just the farmers who benefit.
