Financial Resources

The IECD financial strategy is based on:

Diversified financial sources
Private funds make up about 50% of IECD's financial resources (58% in 2010). They mostly originate from privileged partnerships with:
- Large companies and corporate foundations, such as Schneider Electric, Veolia Environment, or TOTAL;
- Associations and foundations such as Frères de Nos Frères (Swiss NGO), Actig for Life (French NGO), the Fondation Michelham, the Drosos Foundation etc.

In parallel, donations from individuals are also mobilized, mostly in order to contribute to the perpetuation of our local partners’ actions. These donations come in 2 forms:
- Donations and bequests exempt from legacy duties;
- Donations mobilized by regular fund-raising campaigns, with our newsletter « Semeurs d’Avenir » ("Sowers for the Future")

IECD benefits from public funding for the majority of its projects. It maintains good relationships with the European Union since 1994, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1995, the Agence Française de Développement, several French territorial authorities, as well as the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, and others. 
 

Project specific financial engineering

For each project, a financing plan is drawn up and specific fund raising activities are carried out. For most projects, the financial engineering phase is conducted in a co-financing logic, associating private and public funds. This association of every funder's contribution allows the necessary financial stability which is necessary to sustainably implement the activities.

Adapted financial partners
Financial partners are sollicited to support projects which are consistent with their values, their intervention area in the world or their field of activity. The most is made of our partners’ experience thanks to close collaboration which can get the partners involved in the projects' steering committees.

> To download the IECD Annual Report 2010, please click here

Our accounts are certified on a yearly basis by an auditor. In 2010, this was done by HLP Audit (4 rue Amédée Ménard, F-44300 Nantes, France).

> If you wish to download the IECD certified Financial Statements (in French), please click here