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Ceramic Water Purifier Resources
Donors, clients, and partners
American Red Cross
Asian Development Bank
AusAID
Cambodian Red Cross
CARE
CIDA
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
ICCO
IFAD
International Fertilizer Development Center
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Rural Development
Misereor
New Zealand AID
Plan International
Seila-UNOPS
UNICEF
USAID
World Bank Water and Sanitation Program
World Vision
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In recent and current projects, IDE has worked with rural enterprises and households in the following areas:
Agriculture
Water and Sanitation
  
Cambodia Agribusiness in the shadow of Angkor
Since July 2005, IDE has cooperated with New Zealand Aid to establish the Cambodia Agribusiness Development Facility (CADF) in Siem Reap and Bantheay Meanchey provinces. The Facility provides analysis and business development services for micro and small enterprises in agricultural value chains. Improved efficiency, technical knowledge, and business practice opens up more and higher value markets for poor Siem Reap farmers.
  
How IDE distributed 30,000 pumps without spending a cent on hardware
Many rural households have low incomes because their livelihood depends almost exclusively on low-yielding rice production. They lack a reliable source of irrigation that would enable them to diversify into more nutritious and marketable fruits and vegetables.
Starting in 1994, IDE established a network of more than 300 enterprises that manufacture, distribute, and install manual pumps. Creative rural marketing activities encouraged more than 30,000 small farmers to invest in hand pumps and foot-operated treadle pumps with significant impacts on household livelihoods.
Pump users gained convenient access to water for household consumption and for productive uses such as animal rearing, home gardens, and cash crops earning an average net additional income of $75 per season. The top ten percent earn more than $175 per season.
For each dollar of donor funds invested in the project, rural households invested $1.20 of their own resources and received a net benefit of $3.50. A functioning value chain has been left in place so that benefits will continue to accrue.
  
Tapping the market – sustainable delivery of clean drinking water
Less than one third of Cambodians have access to clean water and water-borne disease is a leading cause of child mortality, lost productivity, and poverty.
In response, IDE introduced a simple, low-cost ceramic water filter that allows families to produce safe water in their own homes.
IDE established local production capacity and conducted extensive field tests of the filter’s performance. A business plan was developed for national promotion and distribution, which includes supply chain capacity building and social marketing campaigns to create demand for the filters.
More than 50,000 water filters have been distributed and users—especially women—have benefited from improved family health, time savings, expense savings, and fewer work and school days lost due to illness.
New and replacement filters are available through a sustainable network of private manufactures, distributors, and retailers.
Click here for Ceramic Water Purifier Resources, including retailer locations and instructions for use.
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