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Our Mission |
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As an affiliate of
IDE International, IDE-Bangladesh seeks to realize the same broad goals
and follow the same general strategies as other IDE affiliates
around the world.
As a Bangladesh-based organization, IDE-B will focus on
helping Bangladesh alleviate poverty and achieve its
Millennium Development Goals by:
Integrating the rural poor and smallholders in particular into
market systems;
Expanding access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and
Developing new methods and technologies that help smallholders
raise their income.
In order to alleviate poverty through market integration and
to expand access to clean water and sanitation, IDE-B will
become:
The premier agency for facilitating the provision of services
to small rural businesses;
The top developer of affordable technology for the rural poor,
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A premier creator of development models for rural poverty
alleviation.
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Our
Result |
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Looking Back
Since its inception nearly two decades ago, IDE-B has had
tremendous success in improving the lives of the poor in rural
Bangladesh. Independent assessments estimate that each dollar
spent by IDE-B has resulted in $50 of additional income for
small farmers . Successes have come in all areas of IDE-B's
programming and include: |
Pro-Poor Markets
The facilitation of a private sector network
for manufacturing, distributing, installing, and servicing
treadle pumps with 72 manufacturers, 1205 pump dealers and
4000 well drillers; |
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Agriculture
The sale, through this private network,
of 1.3 million treadle pumps and 200,000 hand-operate rower
pumps, each of which is estimated to generate an average of
$100 in additional annual income for small farmers ; |
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Clean Water
The installation of 1,352 "Jibon" water
pumps that provide safe water to about 10,000 people in areas
with deep water tables, and
The screening and marking of tube wells in 1185 villages for
arsenic contamination;
The implementation of an awareness campaign that explained the
dangers of arsenic to about 1 million people. |
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Future Goals
Between today and 2008, IDE-B will build on its past
achievements by:
Raising one million smallholders' income to at least $200 per
year by emphasizing on-farm productivity, and
Providing access to safe drinking water to one million rural
families. |
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