REFERENCE TERMS Consultancy: Review and adaptation of human resources policies
Profile
External consultant (M/F/X)
Consultancy subject
Avocats Sans Frontières would like to review and adapt its human resources management policies.
Intervention zones
Belgium
Date and duration of evaluation
Between April and August 2024
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Context
Avocats Sans Frontières ASBL (hereinafter "ASF") was founded in 1992 and is an international NGO specialized in the promotion of human rights and access to justice. It implements projects in a dozen countries in Africa and Europe. The organizational model was developed around the principles of decentralization and collaboration. ASF currently employs around 125 people in 10 offices: Belgium, Italy, Niger, DRC, Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Central African Republic and Kenya. In 2020, ASF began a process of decentralization and regionalization of its offices, resulting in the following organizational structure: an international coordination office (Brussels), regional offices (3) and country offices (7). Its employees have different legal statuses: expatriate status, Belgian contracts for head office staff the organization's head office, and local national contracts for the majority of local national contracts. The multiplicity of statuses and different labor laws in each country make it difficult to harmonize the harmonization of HR and salary policies. This can also lead to misunderstandings about salary policy, or to differences in treatment between colleagues as unfair. The association's willingness to question its organization through the prism of decolonization international cooperation also reinforces the need to review the organization's HR policies to ensure greater equity, organizational efficiency and coherence between the between the organization's mission and its HR practices. Certain issues have been identified (expatriate vs. national status, internal mobility, operationalization of decentralization, etc.). However, a more comprehensive inventory needs to be carried out, based on existing practices and policies, but above all on the perceptions and realities experienced by the various teams.