IDE Bangladesh Celebrates 25 Year Anniversary (June 2, 2009) Congratulations to IDE Bangladesh on 25 years of creating income opportunities for small farmers. Founded in 1984, IDE Bangladesh is the oldest continually operating IDE country program...
Events News: Boulder EarthFest (April 9, 2009) IDE will be participating in this year's EarthFest Boulder, a free, family-friendly outdoor event honoring Earth Day. It takes place on Saturday, April 18 at CU Research Park, and includes a unique mix of athletic, artistic, and educational activities. More info at www.earthfestboulder.org.
IDE-UK Announces New Chief Executive (March 24, 2009) IDE-UK has announced Lewis Temple as the organization's new Chief Executive. With an academic background in Social Anthropology, Lewis has spent over 10 years managing international development programs...
Polak Profiled in BusinessWeek (Jan. 13, 2009) IDE Founder Paul Polak was recently profiled on BusinessWeek.com. In a special report on "Voices of Innovation," senior writer Jessie Scanlon discusses Polak's strategy for helping the world's poor earn...
Multiple Use Water Services Book Now Available (Jan. 8, 2009) IDE announces the publication of Multiple Use Water Service Implementation in Nepal and India: Experience and Lessons for Scale-Up by Monique Mikhail and Robert Yoder. The book explores the practical implementation of the multiple-use water services...
IDE 2007 Annual Report Now Available (November 20, 2008) IDE's 2007 Annual Report is now available. It features financial information from the past year, country program updates, photos and more.
IDE Project Selected by RIU Innovation Challenge Fund (November 13, 2008) IDE has been selected as a recipient of the Research Into Use Innovation Challenge Fund, one of just 13 projects in South and Southeast Asia that were selected to receive funding for the next three years. Projects were selected for their “innovative approaches to...
Polak Awarded Monito del Giardino Prize (June 1, 2008) IDE Founder Paul Polak recently traveled to Florence, Italy, to accept the prestigious Il Monito del Giardino prize. The award, which included a €30,000 grant, is presented annually...
Polak's Out of Poverty Now Available (February 15, 2008) IDE founder Paul Polak has collected his experiences from more than 25 years finding innovative solutions to poverty in a new book, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, now available from Berrett-Kohler Publishers.
IDE Receives Second Grant From Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (January 25, 2008) IDE today announced a grant of $27 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its micro-irrigation programs for Indian smallholder farmers...
Cirque du Soleil™ Event Raises Funds for IDE (July 15, 2007) The June 28 performance of Cirque du Soleil's™ Corteo at Denver's Pepsi Center helped raise funds to support its programs in Africa and Asia. IDE's allotment of 200 tickets completely sold out...
Design for the Other 90% Exhibit Opens (May 4, 2007) An exhibit entitled "Design for the Other 90%" featuring technologies from IDE and other organizations designed for the world's poor opened today at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City...
Gates Foundation Awards $13.4 Million to IDE The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has just awarded International Development Enterprises (IDE) a $13.4 million grant to develop and promote low-cost irrigation methods for the rural poor...
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...
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...
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.
