2025 Benefits Roundtable

Project Fair hosted a Roundtable Meeting to focus on INGO minimum standard benefits.

Attendees pose for a photo in front of a banner during the Project Fair Roundtable Meeting focused on INGO benefits.
Attendees from the 2025 Benefits Roundtable

Project Fair hosted a Roundtable Meeting to focus on INGO benefits. The focus of the event was to explore and collaborate on the strategic and technical considerations of benefits approaches in INGOs.

The event was designed with direct input and feedback from participants, highlighting the themes and contexts most important to our members.

The Project Fair team (Abby, Ishbel and Julia) facilitated alongside members of our Steering Committee to support the sessions.

The aims of the event included:

  • Better understanding of common benefit practices and where INGOS are looking to change current arrangements
  • Harmonisation/better alignment/enhancing legal minimums
  • Knowledge and ideas sharing
  • Project Fair to develop a strategic considerations benefits tool

We have developed some resources to support benefits decision-making for INGOs, which are currently available to our members. You can view our other resources here:

Resources

2024 Annual Conference

INGO Reward Annual Conference hosted 2nd and 3rd July 2024

A group of INGO HR and Reward professionals stands on steps outside the University of Edinburgh’s Business School during the inaugural INGO Reward Conference, organised by Project Fair.
Attendees from the 2024 Annual Conference

Project Fair was delighted to host our first annual INGO Reward Conference for INGO HR and Reward professionals in July 2024, in the University of Edinburgh’s Business School attended by 24 INGOs below.

32 delegates travelled for this event from Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Georgia and a number of US, European and UK locations. In total we had representation from 14 countries worldwide.

The conference was organised and led by Dr Ishbel McWha-Hermann (Project Director) and Julia Porter (Project Manager), with support from University of Edinburgh Business School researchers Elaf Basri, Dotun Ayeni, and Katie Geradine.

We were delighted to host Tina Ajuonuma, CEO and Founder of The Better Org, for a keynote on Embedding Fair Reward in Organisational Development.

The conference featured a series of engaging workshops led by expert speakers on key themes, including:

  • Living Wages - theoretical and practical insights from Anja Drame (MSF), Gregor Loetsch (SOS Children’s Villages), and Ishbel McWha-Hermann (Project Fair).
  • Collaborating for Change - research on pathways to fair reward presented by Katie Geraldine, University of Edinburgh, and Ishbel McWha-Hermann.
  • Holistic Reward and Pay Progression - technical workshops led by Louise Hoby Sorrentino (Danish Refugee Council) and Philippe Francey (Project Fair Steering Committee).