Powering entrepreneurs to end poverty.

Rural entrepreneurs may be vulnerable, but they are also highly innovative and motivated.

Together, we can power their path to success.

Invest with us in the power of entrepreneurship

How do we end poverty? By powering entrepreneurs.

To provide water & sanitation.
To achieve gender equality.
To adapt to climate change.
To promote health. To build resilience.
To create inclusive markets
enabling everyone to prosper on their own terms.

Every $1 you give becomes at least $10 in increased incomes for those working to improve their standard of living. We call this multiplier effect “the power of 10.” It empowers you to activate prosperity where it’s missing in the poorest places around the world.

Taking a stand with a new tagline

Our tagline ensures that everyone we meet knows we see the problem and are confident that our sustainable market approach—and the entrepreneurs all over the world challenging the status quo—can solve it.

Read about the tagline evolution and adoption

Our Awards and Recognitions

While the bottom line for iDE is improving the lives of the farmers and poor families we work with, we appreciate it when our efforts are singled out by those who evaluate effectiveness and impact. Our timeline highlights some of the awards that iDE, either globally or for a particular program, has won in recent years.

Read about iDE's Awards and Recognitions

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT IDE

iDE Releases 2020 Annual Report
Despite numerous challenges last year, entrepreneurs around the world demonstrated their resilience. Meet some of those people—like Amelia in Mozambique—who were essential to keeping their local markets healthy in our 2020 Annual Report.
September 1, 2021
Developing the Market Systems Resilience Index (MSRI)
iDE has developed a tool to measure the resilience of market systems and it has already been successfully piloted in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Mozambique.
August 4, 2021
1% for the Planet: Partnering for Global Good
iDE is a proud member of 1% for the Planet, a global network of businesses, individuals, and nonprofits committed to ensuring our planet and future generations thrive. EcoVessel, who sponsored iDE's membership, commits 1% of its gross sales to directly support participating nonprofit members.
June 1, 2021

iDE enhances farmers’ ability to produce and sell fruits, vegetables, and grains sustainably. In doing so, we grow their incomes and the availability of food in their communities, region, and country.

Food Security

By promoting high-value, nutritious crops, iDE empowers farmers to earn more income and provide their families and communities with a more varied diet.

Nutrition

By focusing on women as customers and entrepreneurs, iDE strengthens their participation in rural value chains and increases their access to technology, know-how, finance, and markets.

Gender Equity

iDE helps people in rural areas build their resilience to climate extremes through the use of water saving and climate-smart agricultural technologies and practice.

Climate Resilience

Support from donors and foundations funds our efforts to directly address the parts of peoples’ lives that matter—we’re looking for what works, and you can help.

Diarrheal disease causes more deaths in children under five than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV combined. iDE is taking on this disease by building markets for sanitation, clean water, and handwashing.

LEARN MORE ABOUT WASH

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Small-scale farmers grow 80 percent of the food available in rural areas, so improving their productivity is key. iDE creates business opportunities that enable increased productivity and result in greater income.

LEARN MORE ABOUT AG

Agriculture for Entrepreneurs

iDE helps connect lenders and borrowers at the most rural level, leveraging the power of lots of little loans to improve living conditions.

LEARN MORE ABOUT FINANCE

Access to Finance

We have boots on the ground in ten countries on three continents, and our teams live in the provinces, districts, and villages where we work.

Bangladesh

Since 1984, iDE has helped expand incomes and improve lives in Bangladesh.

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Cambodia

iDE builds market demand and supply for simple, low-cost products and services in Cambodia.

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Ethiopia

iDE’s solutions address the frequent droughts and humanitarian crises that lead to food insecurity in Ethiopia.

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Ghana

Our social enterprise, Sama Sama, is leading research into fecal sludge management in rural Africa.

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Honduras

Climate-smart technology and advice is increasing farmer incomes in Honduras.

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Mozambique

Mozambique farmers are building resilience to climate changes with new technologies and strategies.

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Nepal

iDE innovations with origins in Nepal include collection centers, multiple-use water systems, and more.

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Nicaragua

iDEal Technologias provides farmers cost-effective technology.

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Vietnam

iDE is partnering with the Vietnam government to address agriculture and WASH challenges.

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Zambia

Geographical isolation and limited infrastructure are barriers for rural farmers in Zambia.

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TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM

Are you a WASH development professional?

Visit our new knowledge hub called WASH Markets featuring over 10 years of learnings and insights from building markets for WASH in developing countries around the world.

https://washmarkets.ideglobal.org/