IRD's mission is to reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable groups and provide tools and resources needed to increase their self-sufficiency. IRD is implementing development services and programs across a broad spectrum of regions and technical activities, including various aspects of environmental health. We collaborate with a wide range of local and international organizations and development agencies.
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Our Focus
IRD often begins at the community level and takes lessons to scale after demonstration of success. We currently work in all regions. This includes emergency disaster/relief programs through to community development and disaster risk reduction and mitigation. We run targeted, cost-effective programs that tend to integrate improved drinking water, sanitation services and other environmental challenges, including indoor air quality concerns, within a framework that promotes long term sustainability by considering economic development and strengthening opportunities by design.
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
IRD works in regions of the world that present social, political, and technical challenges, and particularly specializes in helping communities affected by conflict and war to recover and improve.
We are very interested to learn more about how to integrate improved cooking into our programming considerations.
We have expertise through our infrastructure programs on heating and ventilation, working with local authorities in reviews of existing standards.
We currently have no experience in monitoring IAP exposure but are interested to learn more.
Relevant Publications or Studies
None noted
Our Contribution to the Partnership
We are happy to share our experiences and lessons learned with others.
