iDE's Awards and Prizes

  • 2012 Ashden Award for Avoided Deforestation, "Hydrologic/Ceramic Water Purifiers"

  • 2012 Lipman Family Prize, Wharton School at UPenn, "Sanitation Marketing"

  • 2011 World Toilet Organization Hall of Fame, “Sanitation Marketing”

  • 2010 International Design Excellence Award, Best in Show, “Easy Latrine”

  • 2010 Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value, “Farm Business Advisors”

  • 2009 AGFUND Prize, “PRiSM Method”

  • 2008 Monito del Giardino Prize

  • 2008 National Groundwater Association Award - Equipment Design

  • 2004 Tech Award - Accenture Economic Development Award

  • 2004 Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” in Social Responsibility (Paul Polak)


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RURAL
MARKETING

The latest version of iDE's classic method of rural marketing in India and Bangladesh: the Bollywood musical brought to rural villages on a traveling movie van. This time it's Laxmi singing the praises of "KB" brand drip irrigation. Watch now >

To commemorate 100,000 Ceramic Water Purifiers sold in Cambodia, and further market the product, we produced a short film for Cambodian television. Watch now >