ID, AN NGO INVOLVED IN HUMAN AND PEOPLE-CENTERED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Human beings: in the heart of our actions

ID is in touch with 250,000 extremely poor people in Africa, in Haiti and in China.

Three ways to improve living conditions:
- ease access to elementary supply such as water, health and education
- allow the rise of income thanks to the development of agriculture-related activities and access to employment or loan;
- widen the skills of the local actors of development

Work on a long term and with the respect of values by :
- analyzing and studying specifically the context of the zones targeted before launching projects
- helping people’s autonomy, local development and the protection of natural resources
- managing one’s projects with demand for quality and result
- training one’s partners and making local communities responsible
- transferring one’s programs to a local partner

ID was created in 1994 and its headquarters are in Poitiers, France

ID is supervising twenty-two programs in seven countries at the moment: Benin, China, Comores, Congo, Haiti, Chad and Togo.

HEALTH : For a wider access to healthcare

The choice of free care
ID commits itself by facilitating the access to free healthcare by suppressing the cost obstacle for pregnant women children, chronic sick people and the destitute…

The priority to children
Our actions deal with pregnant women, mothers and newly borne babies
so as to improve mothers and children’s health following the pregnancy, easing deliveries in hospital, looking over the feeding and vaccinating
reducing the transmitting of the HIV from mother to child
and making children aware of hygiene, health at school

Fighting against AIDS
Prevention: Our actions have reached nearly 40,000 people in 2007.
Detection: ID eases access to reliable, free and anonymous detection to increase the number of voluntary tests.
Curing: ID creates or helps care centers for AIDS-infected people whose employees we train. 4,600 sick people were followed up in 2007.
Helping the sick morally: in each of the ID centers, the patients can attend a space where they can speak and be listened to.
Offering social care: food supply, children’s school-fees, contribution to the fares to the care center…

The GROWING UP program, which is led thanks to a partnership with the French association SIDACTION, aims at involving and training the AIDS fighting actors to take care of the HIV-positive children. Today, this project involves 1,244 professionals in 17 African countries (medical doctors, nurses, social workers…). 1,200 children are taken care of thanks to projects financed by GROWING UP (http://www.grandir.sidaction.org).

When we arrived in Moundou (the second biggest town in Chad) there was nearly no care for the AIDS-infected. The ARV treatments had only been available for a few months. Today, a center is dealing with 1,880 patients among whom 141 children. Five centers screening for AIDS were created with ID’s help.

EDUCATION : For quality education

Make learning easier for children
Prepare learning by encouraging kindergarten.
Arise and stimulate: initiating to drawing, music
Provide classes with school books and teaching supply
Give good learning conditions to the poorest or to servant children
Build new classes to improve teaching conditions

Train teachers
Train new teachers and provide continuous professional training for partner schools.
Follow the teachers to go with their progression
Promote active teaching methods

Involve parents
Create and accompany financial management committees involving parents in the follow up of school

Encourage reading
Create libraries, documentation centers, reading-corners

20,000 children and 600 teachers enjoy ID’s actions

The Haut Conseil de la coopération internationale awarded ID the 2007 Solidarity Prize for its project on education and training if school teachers in Haïti. This project allowed the creation of an Ecole Normale for school teachers, of two training schools and of the qualification of 490 teachers and 42 headmasters. 138 schools concerned by this program have engaged themselves to respect an “achievement contract” whose aim is to improve the quality of teaching in primary school.

WATER AND SANITATION : For sustainable access to water

Settle, build and maintain infrastructures
Collect springs, settle networks, and build bridges and water tanks
Create and accompany autonomous structures of maintenance to insure their functioning

Protect the water supply
Organize information actions to protect the water supply
Analyze water regularly
Put up water treatment (chlorination, filters…)
Build tanks to save rain water

Promote hygiene
Build latrines
Teach the right habits for the maintenance, the storage, and the transport of water.

75 000 people benefited from our hydraulic works in 2007.

In the Comoros Islands, ID follows up the structuration of the Union formed by the villagers on Anjouan Island. The union works with the contributions from the committees. Today, five technicians were trained by our NGO to maintain these hydraulic works on the island.

As for China, ID has engaged itself towards three Chinese NGOs to supply technical help for the building of biogas tanks. 700 families have already been provided.

AGRICULTURE : Aiming at increasing small producers’ income

Improve and develop production
Train growers for them to improve their production: technical advice, control and maintenance of the agricultural enterprise.
Follow up the growers in the process of transformation of their production to increase it: creation of a dairy, of a cassava transformation workshop.

Support access to markets
Deal with the aspects of marketing, sales and improvement of productions.
Identify the expanding fields with market surveys
Launch pilot projects in isolated areas

Organise intermediaries
Create cooperatives, field workers organizations to mutualize services: trainings, group purchase (fertilizers, tools…), market prospection and negotiation, storage…

The project sustaining the mango field in Haiti started two years ago, it allowed the creation of six cooperatives gathering 500 producers, the plantation of more than 20,000 futures mango-trees and the training of 1,550 producers to the grafting, the maintenance and the picking of mango.

REINFORCEMENT OF PARTNERSHIP
For the permanence of actions

The heart of our occupation is the transfer of our activities to locals after years of work in common.
ID’s work is fully available only when communities can afford their own development.

Support transmission
Transmit knowledge and tools in order to prevent the stopping of actions
Favor the emergence and the professional training of local partners able to carry on our actions.

Reinforce the capacities of the professionals of development
Reinforce the capacities of the local councils (city-halls) and of the local NGOs in the areas where we work.
Sustain the creation and the structuring of local NGOs, often initiated by former ID executives.

ID follows up the professionalization of seven local NGOs. More than ten of our programs have already been resumed by local NGOs that are autonomous and well-known for the quality of their actions.

ID has helped for the creation and structuring of the Beninese RACINES (ROOTS) from 1996 to 2006.
A progressive transfer of our activities in Benin followed up this process. Today, RACINES is a well-known NGO with 15 employees. It develops its own projects in Benin. Besides, we have sought RACINES for support missions for our partners in Togo and in Congo. http://racines.africa-web.org

ID supports elected representatives and technicians in four 400,000 inhabitant towns in Haiti and Benin in the participative development and implementation of local development plans.

FINANCING AND ORGANISATION
To achieve our projects

In 2006*, ID operated with 4,8 millions Euros.

Our resources
European Union: 28%
French Cooperation: 33%
Private partners, associations, foundations and private donators: 24%
Other (Agency for the French-speaking world, the Unicef, water agencies and syndicates, local councils…): 10%

Our operating expenses
6,84 % operating costs
93,16 % running costs
2007 ,running accounts

*2007, running accounts

Act to coordinate
Ten people work permanently in the ID headquarters in Poitiers on:
- the interface between the activities of the association in the field and our sponsors : funds searching, follow-up activities, controls and reports;
- employed or voluntary expatriated personnel management,
- contacts with our technical partners in Europe.
Au siège d’ID, à Poitiers, dix personnes assurent :

Act in the field
A head of program (Responsable de programme (RP)) deals with its implementation in its operational, financial and human aspects. He is responsible for a team adapted to these programs: from three to forty employees.

Over 300 people in seven countries are paid thanks to the ID programs.