ICRG
A Center For Cooperative Research Excellence
The ICRG works closely with local researchers and cooperative development organizations, carrying out rigorous field-based reasearch, to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The ICRG’s reasearch model activity builds trust, ownership, and uptake of outcomes through engagement with key local stakeholders. This collaborative approach amplifies our research outcomes and helps to spread findings culturally, creating concentrated value for members that improves wellbeing and economic status!
Our Initiatives The ICRG Program of Work
Local Capacity and Resilience
Inclusive Economic Growth
Enabling Environments
Learning and Innovation
409,522 Members of CDP Cooperatives and Credit Unions
CDP Implemented in 14 Countries 
8 New Regulations Drafted in CDP Countries 
Over $6 Million of New Revenue through Public Private Partnerships Source: USAID Cooperative Development Program data, 2017
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Speaker Spotlight! Join Dr. Judith Hermanson, Research Director of the ICRG, Tuesday, September 27 to learn about opportunities in climate finance and areas of growth in cooperative resilience! Register today! Click here to check out our speaker list: https://t.co/hThqKaeZL5 https://t.co/sSleKOUvEZ
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“What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?” (WDDCM) is a four-year research project that looks at the difference that primary cooperative societies are making in the lives of their members across four countries – Kenya, Peru, Philippines, and Poland. The research was designed to examine the hypothesized “cooperative difference,” if any, across sectors, and to present its
This Cooperatives in the Philippines – Context Study was prepared under an OCDC International Cooperative Research Group (ICRG) collaboration with Global Communities. It is a companion study to the primary research carried out in the Philippines as part of the ICRG’s four-country study “What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?” Its purpose is to provide an understanding
The following cooperative country context study intends to provide an overview of the present-day situation of the Peruvian cooperative movement, reviewing co-operative history in Peru, and referencing the legal and institutional framework surrounding it. The study assesses the impact of the cooperative sector in Peru’s economic and social realms, its role in job creation and
Through the Legacy Study Series, the International Cooperative Research Group (ICRG) of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) has sought to capture USAID’s programmatic influence through its investments in cooperative development. In conjunc-tion with other studies carried out in Poland, Kenya, Philippines, and Peru under the ICRG’s “What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?” (WDDCM) research
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