Enabling poor rural people
to overcome poverty
IFAD operates with well-motivated staff of the highest quality. Current level of staffing is as follows:
- 312 professional and higher-category positions
- 226 general service positions
The professional positions exclude the positions of the President and Vice-President.
In the Professional and higher categories, staff are nationals of 82 Member States, reflecting IFAD's diverse membership and merit-based recruitment. Within the professional category, 43 per cent of staff are women, whereas in the General Service, women represent 81 per cent of the category. Overall, women make up 59 per cent of IFAD staff.
Under its Associate Professional Officer/Special Programme Officer Programmes, the organization benefited from the services of 27 professionals from ten donor countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the Republic of Korea . In the Internship Programme, IFAD had accepted 69 interns from 25 countries: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Kuwait, Mali, Malta, Niger, Norway, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Under the Enhanced Internship programme, IFAD accepted 4 interns from 4 countries: Pakistan, France, Kenya and South Africa.
