ACHIEVEMENTS

Among IDDI’s main achievements are the following:

• IDDI is one of the primary not-for-profit organizations in the Dominican Republic.  Our development models have used by many other organizations in their work both in the DR as well as abroad.
• In 1990 IDDI promoted the formation of the Dominican Foundation, Inc., a US based 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that raises funds for development projects in the D. R.
• Appointed by Presidential Decree, IDDI is a member of several Presidential Commissions including:

1. National Non-Profit Council,
2. Consultive Committee to the Social Cabinet of the Dominican Government,
3. Presidential Council on Social, Economic and Institutional Development.

• In 2006 IDDI formed in Haiti the Institut Haïtien de Développement Intégral (IHDI), an affiliate NGO and is presently in the process of initiating work in Cuba.  The intention is to form the Caribbean Federation of Integral Development NGOs.
• In 2005 IDDI created the Center for Bio-Sustainability – BIOIDDI – (the first of its kind in the Dom. Rep.) with the purpose of researching, promoting and implementing renewable energy projects.
• Serve as an important interlocutor between the low income communities and the Dominican Government (case of the Social Pact in 2001 between the community groups in the slum of Capotillo and the Dominican Government negotiated by IDDI that put an end to a month of violence) and between the business sector and the community (cases of sugar companies, hotel owners, tobacco companies and their surrounding communities).
• At the time (1997), IDDI signed the largest contract, for a non-profit, with the Dominican Government for over US$ 2,500,000.00.
• Our organization was selected by the non-profits themselves to be the umbrella for USAID funding in maternal-child health care for over US$ 2,000,000.00 in 1994.
• The micro-business credit program has loaned to over 28,400 people for an amount over US$ 19,880,000.00.
• IDDI signed the largest contract for housing construction between a non profit and the Dominican Government for the building of 1,500 low cost houses in Santo Domingo (1997).
• The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) considered that IDDI’s youth project in reproductive health is one of their models in Latin America.
• In our maternal-child health program, IDDI achieved a reduction of 78% in the level on malnutrition in children from 0 to 5 years of age and another reduction of 33% in the mortality rate of this same population.
• In 1998 the HIV/AIDS Prevention Project was considered by AIDSCAP (under contract by USAID) to be one of the three outstanding projects in the world.
• Since 1984, IDDI has supported the strengthening and/or creation of over 460 grass roots organizations capable of responding to the needs, interests and aspirations of their communities.  These groups have undergone a transition from a paternalistic mindset to one of inserting themselves into the decision-making development process of their communities.
• IDDI is the Dominican non-profit organization with the most experience in the low cost housing construction / repair field with over 3,560 units built.
• IDDI has won three public bids for the construction of two schools and the design of a low income housing project with funding from the Interamerican Development Bank and the Dominican Government.
• IDDI has constructed the following:
• 45 schools, 4 community clinics and 8 community centers,
• 95.1 kilometers of pedestrian walkways, and bridges, potable water supply and sanitary drainage systems,
• Covered over 27.3 kilometers of primary and secondary urban slum ravines.