Background Information
IIRD Objectives:
- To reduce poverty by at least 50% in each upazila where IIRD works by implementing social and economic programs leading to poverty eradication
- To foster a comprehensive and integrated development process whereby the above mentioned objective can be achieved within 15 years
- To build the necessary capacity and potential of the poor so that they can lift themselves out of poverty and sustain their development
- To promote women's equality, child development, and leadership among the poor
- To improve and sustain the availability of primary health care and curative services, including sanitation and safe drinking water
- To protect and improve the environment
History
The Institute of Integrated Rural Development, a Bangladeshi non-governmental organization, was founded in 1987 to implement a model of rural development that could be replicated anywhere.
Empowering the rural poor to end their own poverty is IIRD's primary purpose. IIRD is people-focused and sees rural development as a participatory process which enables the poor to identify, analyze, and devise creative solutions to their own problems. Our staff members go daily to the landless poor, women and children of the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, and the marginal where they live, rather than requiring them to come to IIRD's field offices. In all things, IIRD respects the environment and works in harmony with it to achieve the dream of a self-reliant people committed to democratic principles. Recognition of IIRD's Development Model
2000 - Nominated for King Baudouin International Development Prize (Belgium)
2001 - World Bank Global Development Network - Selected as one of the ten most innovative development projects of most potential benefit to humanity
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