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126. The external donor financed programs/projects that have responded to the CBP survey are a major employer in Cambodia providing altogether some 6,400 employment opportunities for local personnel at a reported cost of some 21.5 million US dollars. Over 90 per cent of those employed by bilateral and multilateral programs (for which employment duration has been reported) and practically 100 per cent of those employed by NGOs have long term employment relations. 127. Given that some 37 per cent of bilateral and multilateral projects did not report employing national personnel, the question is whether this is due to the nature of the respective projects or whether it is an instance of inadequate reporting. 128. The average yearly cost per employee for multilateral and bilateral donors and NGOs is some 3,400 US dollars with a low of 2,800 dollars for UN agencies and a high of nearly 4,700 dollars for the IFIs, AsDB and EC (Table 21). This corresponds to an average monthly remuneration in the order of 230 to 390 US dollars. The actual span of remuneration reported is much wider, from a low of 30 to 40 dollars (field staff) to a high of 2,000 to 3,000 dollars (program directors). 129. If these salaries are compared with the salary range within the Cambodian public administration it is obvious that there is a serious problem of competitiveness. The donor programs/projects pay salaries which can easily attract the best elements in the Cambodian administration to the detriment of the proper functioning of the administration. This is all the more so if these salaries are combined with the possibility to take leave of absence and preserve the employment security of a civil service position. |
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