A case study for the project ‘Capacity, Change and Performance’
A. Rademacher, ECDPM Discussion Paper 57M, 2005. This study explores the growth of capacity in IUCN in Asia from 1995 to 2005, with the aim of broadly assessing how capacity was built, maintained and strengthened over that period. This report recounts, largely in their own words, senior managers’ descriptions of the process of forming a regional manifestation of IUCN. It reviews the kinds of managerial thinking and approaches that went into creating the regional programme, and highlights a strategy for change that combined formal, documented plans with a parallel process of highly flexible daily management practice. While certain aspects of the trajectory of capacity development in IUCN in Asia resemble that of many private trans-national organisations, there is a uniqueness to IUCN in Asia’s management culture and commitment that defies quick categorisation, and instead is best represented through the extended quotations presented in this report.