Chief Exec should have retired a long time ago. Ultimate Trumpian narcissist who can probably name only 10 people in the organisation.
Period of intense and unnecessary head office spending (including recruitment, expensive adverts and long-haul traveling) up to 2019 added to the massive and short-sighted redundancies when COVID hit. SMT claimed 'streamlining' SPANA was the intention all along (despite hiring many new employees up until Covid).
SPANA's audience reach will be significantly reduced as a result of the decreased fundraising and comms spending.
Fundraising room is very silent and unsociable.
The five year plan in 2015 was to double the core countries we worked in. By early 2020 we had decreased by two countries.