Competency based human resources management
practices are widely acknowledged as a "best practice," and most
of the Interagency Working Group on Emergency Capacity (IWG) agencies
already have adopted competency frameworks.
The IWG agencies currently employ
approximately 50,000 staff in humanitarian programs (emergency response
and emergency preparedness) in 100 countries. On average, 94 percent of
their global workforce are nationals of the country in which they work,
with a range of 2 to 10 percent expatriate staff mainly in management and
senior technical posts.
