ABSTRACT
This chapter explores International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) strengths and weaknesses. IUCN utilizes various performance evaluation processes, namely, basic job specific competencies, economic, program impact, analytical, operative, evaluation of results, and personnel evaluation processes. The IUCN Secretariat has over 1,000 full-time staff in more than 60 countries. The secretariat is the main executive body and responsible to program planning to implementation. It has a global recognition as its main assets are its members, its networks of experts organized through its Commissions, and its worldwide Secretariat. Having a complex and cumbersome governance structure, massive organizational expansion, and decentralization of the secretariat, issues with proper communications, inadequate financial resources, and external competitions are the major challenges facing IUCN today. The respondents observe that decentralization of the Secretariat is problematic because of the lack of collaboration and communication across functional units and regional offices.
