The name of this newsletter, International TieLine, represents the ties between the United States and developing-world cooperatives.

A year after a devastating earthquake in Haiti, volunteer linemen traveled to Port-au-Prince to continue NRECA International's reconstruction efforts and train 102 local linemen.

NRECA collaborated with partners in the U.S. Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) in the publication of “Measuring Cooperative Success: New Challenges and Opportunities in Low-and Middle Income Countries”.

In 2008, volunteer linemen from the Georgia cooperatives went to the remote mountain region of Ixcan in Guatemala. Ixcan’s infrastructure had been devastated by the decades-long civil war that ravaged the country.

NRECA International produced this publication to advance the basic understanding of rural electrification development for policymakers, donor organizations, and practitioners.

After decades of civil war in Sudan, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in June 2005 provided NRECA International a contract in the southern region to help with the rebuilding efforts in the village of Yei.

NRECA International published In Focus to highlight our programs around the world and illustrate the positive impact that electrification has had on the lives of people who have benefited from our projects.

The Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative (CLARITY) is a joint collaboration with the group of eight Cooperative Development Organizations (CDOs) that each have CDP awards from USAID.

The following publication from the US Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) provides an illuminating and highly relevant analysis of cooperatives’ contributions to international development in developing countries around the world.

This comparative case study by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association contrasts the development of the CRE electric cooperative in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with the Comilla cooperative that outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh.