iDE
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Headquarters Location: Golden, CO
Founded: 1981
Mission: iDE creates income and livelihood opportunities for poor rural households.
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Leadership
Al Doerksen.
Al's involvement with IDE dates back to 1983 when he was with Mennonite Central Committee India. His working career divides about evenly between non-profit and for-profit worlds; he has held senior leadership roles with Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Palliser Furniture, and Trojan Technologies. He has lived in Mexico, India, Germany, Canada, and the USA, and has travelled to around 90 countries,…
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Financial Data
| Read Annual Report | Overhead Ratio: 14.72% |
| Total Revenue: $20,830,217 |
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Contact Info
Address:
1687 Cole Blvd., #150
Golden, CO 80401, USA
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Story:
In just over one year of
operation, iDE Cambodia’s
Sanitation Marketing Program reached the milestone
of 10,000 latrines sold, won
the International Design
Excellence Award, and was
inducted into the World Toilet
Organization Hall of Fame.
In 2011, iDE was awarded a
major grant from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation
and Stone Family Foundation
to scale up the project to a
national level, reaching more
than 115,000 households.
Expert Reviews of iDE
Evidence of Impact Summary:
IDE uses technology and business in their development work. They refine a pro-poor technology, develops a market for that technology, supports business development to provide the technology, and then backs out to let the market drive the availability of the technology. Their approach has facilitated led to value chain development that leads to systemic change. In addition, a large number of people are reported to use their product.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
Almost all experts who recommended IDE applauded them for their strong leadership and staff. In particular, their staff is dedicated, are innovative and willing to take calculated risks to push programs forward. They also have diverse expertise. Experts also mention that IDE have good marketing and transparency.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
IDE can learn from their past mistakes, for example walking away from a project too early when funding was too difficult. Another expert mentioned that IDE can improve by attracting more funding for its core operations to establish a thoughtful and professional leadership and management scheme.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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They combine a development focus with technology and business. IDE has learned to include the local population in their watsan work. When an approach in watsan earns money, people are more inclined to follow the behaviors change. IDE follows a path through. They are now pioneering in social marketing. | ||
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Their impact is the reported numbers of people who use products developed/produced by IDE and their partners. They have breakthrough technologies and products like the treadle pump and the candle filter, and have a strong focus on market-driven strategies. They produce inspiring work. They have great leadership and strong links to the American public. | ||
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IDE doesn't want to be a long-term service provider. In its best work, it refines a pro-poor technology, develops a market for that technology, supports business development to provide the technology, and then backs out to let the market drive the availability of the technology. They have a system for doing this which is logical, incremental, locally adaptable, and of proven success from southeast Asia to sub-Saharan Africa. | ||
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By impact I refer to systemic change. IDE's focus on value chain development ensures that successful enterprises can be developed around socially beneficial issues. The several examples that I've seen in Cambodia and Vietnam have convinced me that even though IDE requires a lot of time and resources to develop these value chains, once they are in place the enhanced technical capacity contributes to greater equity and growth. | ||
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Their impact is the work they have done in Southeast Asia on facilitating the market for water and sanitation. This approach has more potential to be sustainable in the long term given that it is creating the right incentives throughout the value chain. | ||
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They have an excellent impact. | ||
Expert Comments: Organization Strengths
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Excellent Leadership & Staff |
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Their staff stays for long period of times and is committed. | ||
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They have diverse expertise (business, marketing, engineering, design) and have the ability to create and sustain "last mile" distribution networks. | ||
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Strong leadership, marketing. | ||
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Excellent leadership and transparency. | ||
Market-Based Approach |
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They have a market based approach, and are efficient. | ||
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Their ability to identify and take calculated risks to leap programs forward is one of their strengths. They don't have a fear of controlled innovation. Their mid-level management is very committed, skilled, professional, and culturally sensitive to enable success. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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They can learn from mistakes. In the past IDE walked away too early when funding was difficult. That means that products and behaviors will not change and even worst: products can get a bad name, preventing a restart when money has arrived (treadle pump in Cambodia). | ||
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Perhaps some additional sanitation knowledge. | ||
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They could improve by bridging the gap between agriculture and sanitation. | ||
Improve Outreach Globally |
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They could improve their outreach in Europe. They have the potential to bring the proven products and technologies to regions of the world where IDE's presence still is weak (especially Latin America). | ||
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I think IDE has been a more important role player in water and sanitation in the past and much less now. They are rethinking their programming and have some good evidence from Cambodia (sanitation) but are a bit stale at times and need some new ideas. | ||
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Senior leadership, senior leadership, senior leadership. IDE has never been able to break through the barrier to adequately fund its core operations and establish a thoughtful and professional leadership and management scheme. | ||
Leadership
Al Doerksen
CEO
CEO
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