2012-13 Impact Report

Contents..........................Foreword.........................About...............................The Team.........................Strategy...........................Supporting Women in Agriculture.......................Disrupting the Cycle of Food Insecurity...............Progress 2012-2013........Highlights .......................Ethiopia...........................Nepal & Bangladesh......Zambia...........................Mozambique..................Vietnam..........................iDE Named in Top 100 NGOs 2013.....................Andrew Hunt..................Funding Partners............Cultivating Potential.......

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Foreword

Between 2012 and 2013 iDE UK reached a significant milestone. We have doubled in size and tripled in impact. The results of our work across 6 countries with half a million people is clearly demonstrating that working through the market is key to achieving scale and sustainability. I am proud of the dedicated and hard working staff team we now have at iDE UK. Over the past year I have been joined by David Jackson, Sarah Mills and Sam Harvey. I would also like to mention our wonderful volunteers who have been integral to our success.

The iDE UK board have also made a terrific contribution to guiding our growth and increasing our impact on the lives of some of the world's poorest farming families.

I would like to particularly pay tribute to chair of the Trustees Andrew Hunt. The iDE team globally were devastated at his untimely death in June 2013.

Andrew guided iDE UK over the last five years to achieve amazing results for iDE and our clients.

Thank you Andrew.

Lewis Temple - Chief Executive

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At iDE UK, we invest in people. We work with farmers and entrepreneurs living in rural areas all over the world.

We empower them to cultivate their land, create new businesses, and find smarter solutions. We help them to discover, develop, and produce their own technologies. Working together, these technologies change lives.

Our productive water solutions increase food production and incomes.

And, our innovative drinking water and sanitation technologies prevent disease, helping families lead healthier, more productive lives. iDE empowers individuals to create a better future. For themselves. For their families. For generations.

About

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The Staff Team

Lewis Temple Chief Executive

David Jackson Programmes Manager

Sarah MillsGender Programme Officer

Sam HarveyExternal Relations Assistant

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Strategy

In early 2012 the iDE UK Board approved a new Strategic Business Plan covering 2012 - 2014. It outlines three specific targets:

Impact £150We aim to achieve an average annual income increase of £150 for each household we work with.

Cost-effectiveness 10:1We aim to increase the income of our clients by at least 10 times the amount of money that we invest over a 3 year period.

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Scale300,000We aim to reach 300,000 farming families between 2012 and 2014.

1 MillionWe aim to reach 1 million farming families by 2020.

Women are over represented amongst the world’s poor, carry out the majority of smallholder labour and frequently face discrimination which restricts their economic productivity.

At iDE, we have long recognised the enormous contribution women make in agriculture. We believe knowledge about and commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment will improve effectiveness: both for our clients around the world, and for us as an organisation.

Our gender programme aims to promote women’s economic independence by increasing the relevance, scale and impacts of iDE’s interventions for women.

Initially focusing on Zambia and funded by the Mace legacy grant of £206,000, the Supporting Women’s Agricultural Potential (SWAP) project will ensure iDE identifies the most appropriate markets, products and services for women and men farmers.

2012 Strategy: Supporting Women

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Food insecurity is a cycle. Poor farmers depend on rainfall to grow crops, which produce insufficient yields. During the dry seasons, families can face a lack of food and decreased or no income. This results in an inability to invest in the next season’s seeds, fertiliser, pesticides to sustain a small farm. In turn, livelihood improvements such as adequate health care, education, and housing become impossible to achieve.

1. Traditional crops that depend on rainfall alone are less productive and less valuable. 2. Lack of crop diversity results in depleted soils. 3. Soil and groundwater quality suffer due to the effects of climate change. 4. Rainfall is unpredictable and limits growing to one season per year. 5. Food and income run out halfway through the year, creating a spiral of poverty.

7. Low-cost irrigation products allow farmers to extend their growing season to all year round.

6. Farm Business Advisors sell products and provide valuable advice to fellow farmers in their area.

10. Micro-lending programmes aimed specifically at small-scale farmers ensures even the poorest farmers can access products.

8. Innovative soil and pest management techniques help produce healthier, higher value crops.

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9. Our innovative fertiliser product boosts rice yields. See page 14.

11. Market collection centres help farmers reach new markets and get a higher price for their produce.

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2012 Strategy: Disrupting the Cycle of Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition

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Progress 2012 - 13

99,500 Farm families

served

1/2 million

People benefit

6 Countries

20+Partners

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97% Charitable activities2% Fundraising1% Governance

How iDE UK spent its funds in 2012

Target: 2014

£4m income

2012£2.3m income

Target: 2013£3.5m income

2012 GrowthIn 2012, iDE UK’s annual income increased to £2.3m enabling us to grow our programmes substantially.

Highlights

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£196

£196

£140

£99

Zambia

Cambodia

Ethiopia

Nepal

Bangladesh

Vietnam £44

Annual income gain for each farmer, per country

2011£1.2m income

2010£0.2m income

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EthiopiaIn Ethiopia our SMART (Smallholder Markets and Agriculture Resilience Transformation) project, funded by the European Union, is helping 36,500 smallholder farming households to increase and diversify production of high-value vegetables, improved varieties of staple crops, bees and livestock such as chickens, goats and sheep.

This is empowering them to better manage the effects of drought which led to the severe food crisis of 2010-2011.

iDE UK is leading a major consortium of NGOs including Oxfam GB, Self Help Africa and SOS Sahel Ethiopia to implement the SMART project across Oromia and Southern provinces in Ethiopia.

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“We have joy in our hearts, because we have built our assets”

Gemechu Women’s Economic Group - SMART Project

Nepal & BangladeshIn Nepal and Bangladesh our Agriculture and Nutrition Extension (ANEP) Project, funded by the European Union, is supporting 59,000 smallholder farm households (approximately 300,000 people) to increase agricultural productivity, incomes, food security and nutrition through increased access to transformative technologies and knowledge about healthy food.

The project is being implemented by a consortium led by iDE and includes three international agricultural research centres WorldFish (fish); CIMMYT (maize and wheat) and the International Rice Research Organisation, together with Save the Children and local NGOs.

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147Nutrition education classes delivered

55Fish farms established

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Zambia

In December 2012 iDE UK’s first major project in Zambia started. The Wealth Creation through Irrigation in North Western Province (WIN) project is funded by the European Commission and the mining company Barrick Lumwana.

It will organise and train 3,500 poor farming families (approximately 21,000 individuals) currently living on less than $2 per day over 4 years in the North Western Province to assist them to grow fresh fruit and vegetables.

The farmers will increase their income by supplying produce to the workers in the surrounding copper mines.

The economy of North Western Province has been developing rapidly in recent years due to the increased mining activity in the area. This is a golden opportunity to meet the growing demand for produce which is currently sourced from outside NW Province, even as far as South Africa.

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“I am thanking iDE very much, especially for women. We are not relying on our husbands. We do our own projects to make our families to look better and to eat better and to grow better. And even have a house”

Veronica Sianchenga - Zambian Farmer

Mozambique

In 2012 iDE UK was supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Small Foundation to research how best to develop a network of Farm Business Advisors in Mozambique.

Farm Business Advisors are local entrepreneur farmers who sell low-cost, high quality materials (irrigation equipment, seeds, fertiliser) to farmers, in addition to providing advice on how best to use these products.

This innovative approach won the Nestlé prize for Creating Shared in Value in 2010 for its initial implementation in Cambodia. It provides jobs as well as a sustainable, commercially-based farm support service for poor farmers.

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VietnamIn Vietnam our Fertiliser Deep Placement (FDP), Project supported by the innocent foundation, was completed in June 2013. It has achieved some impressive results.

FDP is a simple yet innovative technology – a small pellet containing high quality, nutritious fertiliser which is placed by farmers deep into the soil of the rice paddies, alongside seeds.

This ensures all the nutrients and goodness from the fertiliser goes straight into the roots of the plant, with none being wasted in the surrounding soil.

Impact

25% Increase in rice yield.

£42Average increase in yearly income per farmer.

Cost Effectiveness1:9From an investment of £60,000 the project achieved an annual income gain for all the participating farmers of £516,000 over three years.

Scale4,157Poor farmers are using FDP pellets on their rice paddies.

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"Last year we had rice for two more months and I could save £36 from buying rice. Hopefully we will save enough for my daughter's medical costs - she has scoliosis"

Mrs Thao - rice farmer

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iDE has been named one of the Top 100 NGOs in the world by The Global Journal in its 2013 annual ranking.

The only international ranking of its kind, this list reflects the increasing global influence of NGOs in all facets of modern life, in the process shining a light on a dynamic, innovative and inspiring sector estimated by the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to include close to 10 million organisations.

The Global Journal considered a pool of 450 NGOs based on three key criteria:

Impact Innovation Sustainability

iDE Named inTop 100 NGOs

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The iDE UK team are devastated at the untimely death of our Board Chair, Andrew Hunt on the 30th of June 2013.

Andrew played a huge role in the development of iDE UK since becoming Chair in 2008. His leadership and direction has transformed iDE and our work with poor farmers.

iDE UK Vice Chair David Curry provides this reflection on Andrew’s life and achievements:

“He assumed leadership with purpose and energy. He developed a new strategy and business plan for the organisation, substantially reconstituted the Board and recruited a first-rate chief executive.”

The team are planning to develop a memorial project in honour of Andrew that will focus around access to finance - an issue close to his heart.

Andrew Hunt 1945 - 2013

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Funding Partners

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Cultivating Potential

iDE UKiDE UK (formerly International Development Enterprises UK) is a member of the iDE international family of organisations with other members in the USA, Canada and country programmes across the developing world.

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iDE UK would like to thank the entire iDE UK Board for their commitment and support: Andrew Hunt, David Curry, David Rigby, Robert Silbermann, Shoa Asfaha, Michael Dent, Jenny Rohde, Ingrid Stellmacher. iDE UK would also like to thank and credit professional photo-journalist David Graham for the incredible photographs in this report. Design by Anastasia Mond and Sam Harvey.