What Difference
Do Cooperatives Make?

Initiatives: What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?

Global Outcomes: What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?
The purpose of this research is to understand whether there is a measurable “cooperative difference” for members of primary cooperatives and the communities in which cooperatives operate.
What Difference Do Cooperatives Make? Peru Country Study
Through WDDCM, the ICRG focuses its investigation on the impact that local level (primary society) cooperative organizations have in their members’ lives.

What Difference Do Cooperatives Make? Philippines Country Study
The mixed methods multi-country study of the economic and social impacts of cooperatives, titled: “What Difference Do Cooperatives Make?” (WDDCM) was conceived, designed, and executed by the International Cooperative Research Group (ICRG).

What Difference Do Cooperatives Make? Kenya Country Study
The study was piloted in Poland in late 2017 and implemented in Kenya, the Philippines, and Peru from 2019–2020. The Kenya Country Study data and analysis contribute to the four-country-study’s findings, while this stand-alone report offers unique insights from East Africa.

What Difference Do Cooperatives Make? Poland Country Study
The ICRG carried out this pilot study in Poland as the first in a series of country studies designed to understand the extent to which objective evidence will demonstrate cooperatives provide a sound platform to base broad-based international development for sustainable, locally owned and institutionalized results.

Global Outcomes: WDDCM, Spanish Translation!
The purpose of this research is to understand whether there is a measurable “cooperative difference” for members of primary cooperatives and the communities in which cooperatives operate.
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The Cooperative Context In Peru
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 …

The Cooperative Context In Philippines
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?”
E-Learning Portal
A cooperative training series to help support continued learning.
The-Hub Portal
A collection of assets curated to inform the success of your cooperative.
Annual Learning Event
These event materials were steered around the USAID Climate Strategy.
Bridging research results into practice.
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