IRG is an international professional services firm that helps governments, the private sector, communities, and households manage critical resources to build a cleaner, safer, and more prosperous world. Since its inception in 1978, IRG has completed over 650 contracts in 134 countries, delivering high-quality, cost-effective services that promote positive economic growth, institutional and social change, and intelligent use of resources-human, physical, environmental, and financial.

IRG's international development staff includes world-renowned specialists who have pioneered many of the analytical techniques used in their fields. IRG's ability to provide management, economic, and technical advice is further enhanced by the diversity, cross-cultural experience, foreign language skills, and management capabilities of staff based in the Washington, DC headquarters, corporate and representational offices in India, Indonesia, Peru and the Philippines, and 20 project dedicated offices around the world.

Core Capabilities

IRG's expertise focuses on the following major sectors and cross-cutting service areas. IRG thus combines our solid understanding of programmatic areas with cutting edge methodological skills to address the needs of our clients.

	Sectors
Energy
Environmental Management
	Cross-Cutting Services Instuitional Strengthning & Training  Policy Formulation & Analysis Poverty Reduction & Economic Growth   Governance Knowledge Management Project Design Project Implementation & Monitoring Project Evaluation & Impact Assessment
Sectors		Sectors
Agricultural & Natural Resources Environment         Water Resources		Relief & Reconstruction

Staff  

IRG's staff and consultants have the technical skills, education, language capabilities, and international experience to meet the complex needs of our clients. We are committed to providing the best technical and managerial staff and consultants in our key sectors and service areas.

Corporate Responsibility

IRG recognizes its own corporate and social responsibilities by giving back to the communities in which it works through a small grants program and operating the company in an environmentally sound manner.

The new grants program, entitled the IRG Cultural Preservation Fund, was announced at a mid-December 2004, 25th anniversary kick-off event. Through these small grants, IRG is helping preserve another threatened sector: a community's cultural legacy. Many of the countries where IRG works are too poor to invest in this valuable resource and IRG feels it can make a difference. The Fund has already provided grants to secondary museums in Nepal and Peru. IRG expects to identify more needy projects in the coming years.

To preserve resources at home, IRG is implementing a corporate environmental management system (EMS) at its headquarters in Washington, DC. IRG is ISO 14001 Certified, the formal recognition of companies that manage their operations to minimize the impact on the environment. Plans are now underway to extend this system to offsite project and regional offices around the world. IRG hopes this will inspire other colleagues and organizations to pursue implementation of their own EMS.