Overview
IDE is a global effort that spans offices in 14 countries, encompassing 4 social enterprises, employing nearly 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling many more through our market-based approaches in agriculture; water, sanitation, and hygiene; and finance. Market-based approaches are new to Ethiopia, but since 2007, iDE has been demonstrating how business can address the most challenging conditions in poverty and sanitation. Ethiopian families, can benefit from tapping into the potential that beneath their feet. With access to water-smart technology like solar pumps and drip irrigation, these families can leave malnutrition and food insecurity in the dust.
FEATURED PROJECT
leading the cause for WASH in Ethiopia
Building a sustainable market in Ethiopia
Market-based approaches are new to the sanitation and hygiene sector in Ethiopia. Through pilot and scale-up projects, iDE brings applicable and relevant strategies to build sustainable delivery of these services to Ethiopian households.
Agriculture in Ethiopia accounts for 80 percent of the labor force and over 40 percent of the gross domestic product. Over the past half-century, Ethiopia has struggled with frequent droughts, leading to disruptions in its agriculture as well as a series of humanitarian crises. It is also home to the second-largest population in Africa. Ethiopians agricultural productivity is extremely low, due to an under utilization of water resources, with only 6 percent of its groundwater used for irrigation. Malnutrition is widespread due to the resulting lack of sufficient food for the majority of the population and chronic diseases from poor sanitation.
Creating a food safety net
Farmers build climate resilience in Ethiopia
iDE provides farmers access to improved seeds and training in proven agricultural practices to increase crop yields that enable small-scale households to have food year-round.
What matters:-
GENDER EQUITY
NUTRITION
FOOD SECURITY
RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
What works
AGRICULTURE
WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE (WASH)
FINANCE