Organisation
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At the close of 2010, we had 34 employees (20 women and 14
men), totalling 32.5 full-time equivalents. Staff was divided over
three teams: Country Programmes; International Programmes; and
Personnel, Finance & Central Services.
In the year under review we reviewed the organisational
structure of IICD to ensure it was able to support the work related
to its new strategic framework 2011-2015. IICD’s organisational
structure was rearranged, new job profiles were instituted and all
staff was assessed and assigned to the new positions. Unfortunately, by
the end of the year, IICD had to make a number of staff redundant
because we did not receive the amount of funds we had hoped for.
We also continued to work on the quality of the organisation and
health and safety.
Furthermore, we strived to become a better learning organisation
and to increase the quality of our human resources capacities. To
achieve this we initiated a number of activities within the
organisation itself to help staff learn from experiences. These
included peer reviews within the three teams of the organisation,
online and face-to-face exchanges of thematic experiences, internal
seminars and documentation of impacts through the Learning Brief
publication series.
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Partners are essential to successfully implement ICT for development
programmes: they provide funds, expertise and materials that help us
reach more people and achieve more impact. In 2010, we continued to
build on existing partnerships, but also aimed to develop new
partnerships, particularly for funding.
Though the economic crisis of 2009 was still to be felt in 2010, we
managed to continue many of our existing private-sector partnerships.
Our key-partners from the private sector were Altran, Atos Origin,
Inter Access and KPN. The Motorola Foundation, Inter
Access (an IT service provider) and NComputing (a desktop
virtualisation company) even extended their partnership with us, as did
Stichting CharITy. PSO, CTA and Close the Gap. We also
managed to get several new partners on board; Ricoh, PWC and
international construction company BAM committed themselves to
IICD.
Our most important partner remained, however, the Directorate General
for International Cooperation (DGIS) at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign
Affairs who is our main funder. Other important funders of IICD’s work
were Dutch NGOs Hivos, Cordaid and PSO.
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To obtain funding from DGIS for the period 2011–2015, we together
with AKVO, Cordaid, Edukans and ICCO created the
Connect4Change consortium. With IICD in the lead, we jointly submitted
a proposal for funding Connect4Change together with preferred partner
Text to Change. This proposal was approved in November 2010. As of 2011
IICD will start working in three new ICT for development programmes,
focussing on the education, health and economic development sectors in
11 countries: Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mali, Peru, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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Total number of staff: 34
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