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.