The organizational structure of IFAD includes: management assembly; Executive board; Secretariat (Chairman and his staff). The Secretariat consists of the President and the following departments: Resource Strategy Department, Project Management Department and Management Personnel Service Department. The president is the legal representative and chief executive officer of IFAD, with a term of four years and can only be re-elected once. The president appoints a vice president and three assistant presidents, and leads all staff and presides over daily affairs. The current chairman of IFAD is Swedish Lennart Bage. The first three presidents were Fazi Sultan of Kuwait, Abdul-Mohsin Sudri of Saudi Arabia and Idriss Jazairy of Algeria.

IFAD * * * has 265 staff members, including11professionals from 49 member countries. Two people in China work in the secretariat of IFAD.

In order to avoid being too big and occupying too much funds, IFAD pays attention to using other United Nations agencies (such as the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Office for Project Services, FAO, the United Nations Department for Development Support and Management Services and the World Bank). ) provide technical services for its projects, such as project preparation, monitoring and evaluation, and loan management.