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The Cooperative Development Program and OCDC have fostered cooperatives as viable and sustainable approach for building self-reliant communities in developing countries
- RELENTLESSLY LOCAL
OCDC members carry out the largest portfolio of cooperative development programs in the world, building local institutions driven by local needs
- SELF-RELIANT
The CDP is the only program within USAID that focuses on cooperatives, and it powers OCDC’s members activities in developing countries
- SUSTAINABLE
Since 1961, the CDP and OCDC have supported co-ops serving 130 million people, lifting them from poverty, building a more prosperous world
CDP Reports and Papers
COOPERATIVES. BUILDING A MORE PROSPEROUS DEMOCRATIC AND INCLUSIVE WORLD
Paul Hazen | Executive Director OCDC
Cooperatives are uniquely suited to address today’s global development. Through a democratic and inclusive business model, and by virtue of their underlying social justice principles … Read More
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COOPERATIVES. BUILDING A MORE PROSPEROUS DEMOCRATIC AND INCLUSIVE WORLD
Paul Hazen | Executive Director OCDC
Cooperatives are uniquely suited to address today’s global development. Through a democratic and inclusive business model, and by virtue of their underlying social justice principles … Read More
GLOBAL STUDY. WHAT DIFFERENCE DO COOPERATIVES MAKE?
Dr. Judith Hermanson | Research Director, ICRG
Cooperatives are uniquely suited to address today’s global development. Through a democratic and inclusive business model … Read More
CDP EVALUATION. THE COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Paul Hazen | Executive Director OCDC
Cooperatives are uniquely suited to address today’s global development. Through a democratic and inclusive business model … Read More
FY2022. CDP WHITE PAPER
Paul Hazen | Executive Director OCDC
Cooperatives are uniquely suited to address today’s global development. Through a democratic and inclusive business model … Read More
OCDC VIDEOs
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE. PAUL HAZEN
From the 2020 Resilience Event
ACADEMIC RIGOUR AND EXCELLENCE
The Cooperative Difference
Why cooperatives?
Results show co-ops are making measurable difference in the lives of members, bot economically and socially.
Key findings include 83% report cooperative membership has positively affected their economic position
54% report they have received both economic and social benefit from cooperative memberships
47% report earning above-average income compared to the general public.
Cooperatives work
- Cooperatives Improve livelihoods
- Cooperatives improve economic status
- Cooperatives improve social capital
Supported
By Research
In Peru
Co-op members have incomes
27%
greater
than
those who are not members
Co-op
Members
Are more trusted
citizens in their
respective communities
The
Majority
of Members
Agree or strongly agree
their membership benefits
them economically
OCDC
The U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council
Committed to building a more just and prosperous world through cooperatives. OCDC brings together nine organizations committed to building a more prosperous world through cooperatives. Its mission is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development.
Our history
In 1962, the U.S Agency for International Development undertook a study of cooperative development. From that study came a committee of U.S. cooperative organizations.
Our vision
OCDC envisions a world where people in all countries have the opportunity to work together through cooperatives to create a better life for themselves and their communities.
Our mission
The mission of OCDC is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development to build stable, scalable self-reliant communities.
Sign Our Letter
Cooperatives Improve Livelihoods
On behalf of the International Cooperative Alliance, we strongly welcome the study, ‘WDDCM?’
One of the reasons we’d like to place specific attention on this study is methodological, it focuses on four different countries in different parts of the world Poland, Peru, Kenya, and the Philippines. These are sufficiently varied samples to examine if constants can be observed in all four environments or not.
