HopeDance
Celebrating Transition, Opportunity & Resilience
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Markets can have a powerful positive impact on the lives of the rural poor. IDE has observed that the most successful smallholders--those who have lifted themselves out of abject poverty--are those who participate more fully in markets by purchasing more inputs, making effective use of technical knowledge and market information, and developing stable linkages to output markets.
In our programs worldwide, IDE helps create market conditions that enable the rural poor to become successful market participants. Concepts and practices usually associated with private business are applied to the problem of poverty as IDE works to:
1. Identify market opportunities that can be exploited by poor people
2. Develop technologies that the poor can use to generate income
3. Establish supply chains to deliver technologies to the poor at affordable prices
4. Conduct promotional campaigns to convince smallholders to invest in income-generating technologies
5. Establish linkages with output markets
6. Ensure that everyone in the market network, especially the smallholder, receives a fair profit
Mission:
IDE confronts the challenge of rural poverty by developing market systems that serve poor women and men, enabling them to access and control water, increase production, create wealth, and improve their quality of life.
Core Values:
• We believe in the right of poor women and men to a secure livelihood
• We believe that markets can be a powerful force for poverty reduction
• We regard the rural poor as potential customers, producers, and entrepreneurs
• We listen to and learn from the people we work with
• We value innovation and entrepreneurship
• We are results oriented, aiming for tangible impacts for large numbers of people
• We strive for economic, social, and environmental equity and sustainability
• We have confidence in our ability to make a significant difference
In our programs worldwide, IDE helps create market conditions that enable the rural poor to become successful market participants. Concepts and practices usually associated with private business are applied to the problem of poverty as IDE works to:
1. Identify market opportunities that can be exploited by poor people
2. Develop technologies that the poor can use to generate income
3. Establish supply chains to deliver technologies to the poor at affordable prices
4. Conduct promotional campaigns to convince smallholders to invest in income-generating technologies
5. Establish linkages with output markets
6. Ensure that everyone in the market network, especially the smallholder, receives a fair profit
Mission:
IDE confronts the challenge of rural poverty by developing market systems that serve poor women and men, enabling them to access and control water, increase production, create wealth, and improve their quality of life.
Core Values:
• We believe in the right of poor women and men to a secure livelihood
• We believe that markets can be a powerful force for poverty reduction
• We regard the rural poor as potential customers, producers, and entrepreneurs
• We listen to and learn from the people we work with
• We value innovation and entrepreneurship
• We are results oriented, aiming for tangible impacts for large numbers of people
• We strive for economic, social, and environmental equity and sustainability
• We have confidence in our ability to make a significant difference
