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The World Conservation Union

Acronym: IUCN

Keywords: | Environment | Transnational Civil Society | All |

Source of Information: Survey of Civil Society Networks 2001

A. Objectives

Mission: IUCN seeks to influence, encourage, and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Vision: A just world that values and conserves nature.

B. Contact Information

Coordinator	Achim Steiner
Title	Director General
Telephone	41 22 999 0111
Fax	41 22 999 0025
Email	mail@hq.iucn.org
Website	www.iucn.org
Mailing Address	Rue Mauverney, 28 Gland, CH1196 Switzerland

C. General Information

Founding year	1948
Legal Status	International NGO - UN observer status
Types of actions	The International programme is developed with IUCN members and its networks of Commissions. The programme's main areas of work are: 1. restore and effectively manage ecosystems 2. support institutions, agreements, processes and policies related to biological diversity 3. Influence incentives, including finance, for conservationof biodivsersity and sustainable use of natural resources 4.Work for equitable sharing of the costs and benefits 5. Assessment of biodiversity and of related social and economic factors 6. Develop information management and communication systems 7. Effective and efficient and accountable management and leadership of the Union. The approach IUCN uses is 1. Knowledge: generating, integrating, managing and disseminating knowledge on conservation issues and solutions 2. Empowerment: build capacity, responsibility and willingness of people and institutions to plan, manage and conserve nature and natural resources. 3. Governance: influence systematic improvement in laws, policies, economic instruments, and institutions for the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of nature and natural resources.

D. Programs

Name	Goal	Approximate budget ($US)

E. Geographical Reach

Countries in which network participates actively

IUCN is global Regional offices are in 1. SUR Ecuador for South American programme 2. ORMA Costa Rica for Meso America programme 3. ROCA Central Africa 4. Eastern Africa 6. Southern Africa 7. South and South East Asia 8. Europe Plus offices in 34 other countries, from Poland to Canada, USA to Botswana and Switzerland is the Headquarters. Our members come from 140 countries and out volunteer network members come from 180 countries

F. Members

The network is composed primarily by: X Organizations X Individuals

Principal Organizations	Central Interest	Country of origin

G. Resources

Approximate annual budget of the network (in $US)

Year 2000	Year 1995	Year 1990

Sources of funding:

H. Network Infrastructure

Number of paid employees in Central Office(s)/ Secretariat(s) of Network
Number of paid employees elsewhere in the network
Does the network have a physical site of its own?

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