Daily subsistence allowance (DSA) is an allowance which is intended to account for lodging, meals, gratuities and other expenses of United Nations travellers. The International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) issues a monthly list of rates for different locations around the world. The UN and its related organizations use this schedule of rates to calculate reimbursement for travel expenses on official travel and relocation to a duty station. Organizations may have different policies on how the allowance is determined.

The interactive map on the ICSC homepage can be used to quickly look up DSA rates for a country without login. https://icsc.un.org/map/

IFAD has a zero-tolerance stance towards Sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse (SH/SEA). Since the release of IFAD’s policy to preventing and responding to SH/SEA in 2018, a multidivisional SH/SEA Task Force develops biennium corporate SH/SEA Action Plans, which includes concrete deliverables to prevent SH/SEA in IFAD’s activities and funded operations. The Executive Board is updated on the implementation of the Plan at each of its session. Prevention being one of the pillars of IFAD’s plan, mandatory SH/SEA online training and programmes are provided to IFAD workforce as well as to implementing partners. IFAD policies, procedures, basic texts, contracts have been strengthened to define obligations of staff and holders of contracts with IFAD. As well, Borrowers/Recipients of IFAD funding must comply with the IFAD SH/SEA policy. SH/SEA is mainstreamed into project design and SH/SEA risk are assessed and mitigation measures developed where appropriate. IFAD has strengthened its reporting mechanisms and, under the coordination of the Ethics Office, has expanded its IFAD’s SEA focal points programme to all IFAD country and regional offices. IFAD continues to proactively cooperate with counterparts in the UN system and IFIs networks to ensure it adopts the best practices in safeguarding against SH/SEA.

See related documents:

• End-of-Year Management Letter on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Reporting of SEA Allegations
• Guide for Borrowers/Recipients
• IFAD policy to preventing and responding to SH/SEA
• No Excuse card

Official representatives of the Fund may access IFAD premises with valid FAO or WFP building pass. To request an IFAD building pass, submit your request to secmailbox@ifad.org.

Delegates may be dropped off at the main entrance accessible through Via Paolo di Dono, 42, and cars must exit and proceed to the reserved parking area located at the rear of the building on Via Paolo di Dono, 86. Only delegates already possessing a valid building pass can use the rear entrance of the building when coming from the reserved parking area.

Credentials may be submitted to igmr@ifad.org. For courtesy visits to the President of IFAD please send your request, including the full name and title of the Representative wishing to call on the President, the purpose of the visit and the proposed dates to protocol@ifad.org. 

Article 3 of the Agreement Establishing IFAD states that membership of the Fund shall be open to any State member of the United Nations or of any of its specialized agencies, or of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Membership shall also be open to any grouping of States whose members have delegated to it powers in fields falling within the competence of the Fund, and which is able to fulfill all the obligations of a Member of the Fund. Further information can be obtained by contacting igmr@ifad.org. 

You can obtain this information by logging in to the platform and looking within «My Country Details». Alternatively, please send an e-mail to igmr@ifad.org.

To ensure that the Fund’s records are up to date, please send all cabinet changes, updates to mailing lists, and changes of contact details to igmr@ifad.org.

Rule 7, footnote 3, of the Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board sets out the procedure for the attendance of observers in Executive Board sessions. Representatives of Member States, who are not on the composition of the Executive Board, may follow the proceedings of the session as silent observers by closed circuit television from the salle d’écoute, adjacent to the meeting room if the session is held in-person. Should the session be held in a hybrid format or virtually, the silent observers will be granted access to the live-streaming.

Please consult this page on IFAD's website for project operations and the IFAD Operations Dashboard for future interventions for projects, programmes and country strategies. 

Please contact igmr@ifad.org.

Meeting dates for IFAD's Governing Bodies are found in the Calendar.

Please consult the following pages to access Governing Body documents and IFAD's basic legal text:

• Governing Council
• Consultation on the Replenishment of IFAD's Resources
• Emoluments Committee
• Executive Board
• Audit Committee
• Evaluation Committee
• Working Group on the Performance-Based Allocation System
• Working Group on IFAD’s Blend Terms
• Ad Hoc Working Group on Governance
• Working Group on the Transition Framework
• IFAD Basic Legal Texts

Contribution votes are distributed according to paid contributions and, as such, are subject to change upon receipt of a payment by any Member State to any of IFAD's past replenishments. As IFAD receives payments on a regular basis, voting rights are redistributed as and when these payments are received. For more information, please consult the IFAD's voting rights subsite. For information on the current status of your voting rights, please contact igmr@ifad.org.