Report of the national manpower and employment planning staff development workshop for the government of Liberia

Abstract

The Government of Liberia (GOL) has long recognized the need to institute a systematic manpower and employment planning process within the nation s overall development planning framework. At the policy making level, a Manpower Commission was created in 1966 by an act of legislation. A manpower planning unit was subsequently established within the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs (MPEAJ in 1973 which was elevated to a Divisional status in 1974 primarily to serve as the technical arm to the Manpower Commission. A Bureau for planning and human resources development was established in the Ministry of Labour in 1976. The Ministry of Education housed a Bureau of Education Planning headed by a Deputy Minister. Individual ministries, agencies and enterprises perform manpower and employment planning functions with different emphasis and intensities.