• Planning overview
• Assessing staff needs
• Recruitment essentials
  • Range
  • Contract types
  • Contract length
  • Terms and conditions
    • Cash-benefits
    • Non-cash benefits
    • Leave
    • Working conditions
    • Living conditions
    • Insurance
• Sourcing staff
• Financial resources
• Staff turnover
• Competition and collaboration
• Accountability

• Case studies
• Resources
• Further reading

• People In Aid Code

Terms and conditions

Establishing the cash, and non-cash benefits as well as managing the working and living conditions of the team will be key to their performance, motivation and well-being.

Especially if your organisation is new to the country, this will be challenging.

A useful source of information on cash and non-cash benefits will be organisations, similar to yours, who have been longer established in the country. Make full use of their experience – consider starting with a pay scale based closely on theirs.

You will need to have some sort of pay scale in order to recruit staff and have a programme. In order to avoid misunderstandings and disputes:

• Keep it simple
• Strive for consistency
• Write it down

Salaries and allowances should ideally be set and paid in the local currency unless there are compelling reasons for paying in another country. More

Nobody should expect luxury, but nobody should be expected to work or live in chaos and squalor for longer than absolutely necessary. Case study