OCDC Member Trivia

The global cooperative community celebrates the 100th Anniversary of International Day of Cooperatives on July 2! To join in the celebration the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) created this trivia quiz to bring greater awareness to the work of our members and their cooperative development projects (CDP) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
 
These questions highlight our members' projects as well as OCDC's own International Cooperative Research Group. Each project is unique and does amazing things in developing local cooperatives across a variety of sectors, or through conducting practical cooperative research around the world.
 
Pro tip: Find answers on the website linked in each question. 
 
OCDC members are:
  • ACDI VOCA
  • Equal Exchange
  • Frontier Co-op
  • GENEX
  • Global Communities
  • HealthPartners
  • Land O’Lakes Venture37
  • NCBA CLUSA
  • NRECA International
  • World Council of Credit Unions

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* 1. NCBA CLUSA’s current CDP program (2018-2023) operates in five core countries, but also received USAID Mission approval in 2020 to conduct additional activities in this country:

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* 2. Fill in the blank, HealthPartners has been leveraging its cooperative health expertise in Uganda since _____ to help resource poor areas to overcome their health challenges.

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* 3. Frontier Co-op’s CDP focuses on increasing the international processing capacity of its organic farmer association spice suppliers in Sri Lanka, India and Guatemala. Frontier is a U.S. based- cooperative with _________ members.

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* 4. Equal Exchange, one implementer of USAID’s Cooperative Development Program, first began implementing a CDP project in what year:

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* 5. True or false, the focus of the GENEX, Cooperative Development Program is to provide partner cooperatives with training and technical assistance in:
  • Cooperative governance—legal compliance, organizational structure, governance, cooperative culture, purpose and member focus
  • Agriculture and animal husbandry—farm management, animal nutrition, improved genetics
  • Business operations—accounting, business plans, access to credit, marketing and processing, value-chain networking

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* 6. As one component of their CDP, Global Communities works with this cooperative sector in Kenya _________ . The sector provides opportunities for members to slowly save and collectively purchase a large plot, which is cheaper and easier to procure than small lots. It also provides cost savings through bulk purchases of construction materials.

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* 7. Land O’Lakes Venture 37 recently added Lebanon to its current CDP activity. The original two countries where the project started were:

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* 8. This International Cooperative Research Group project took place in these four countries, Poland, Kenya, the Philippines and Peru:

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* 9. The acronym for World Council of Credit Unions’ current cooperative development project is TIFI, which stands for:

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* 10. Fill in the blank- Component II of ACDI VOCA’s current Cooperative Development Project (CDP) is:  Guinea Cooperative Strengthening for ________ Sector Development – build producer organization group capacity to improve their quality and volumes, strengthen market linkages, and create clear market incentives in coordination with Guinea/SADA.

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* 11. Since 1962, NRECA International has empowered more than _____ worldwide to improve their quality of life by providing them access to safe, reliable and affordable electricity.

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