Progress report on the development of institutional capability for manpower planning

Abstract

Member States at the First. Conference of Ministers Responsible for Human Resources Planning, Development and Utilization endorsed as a priority need, the development of national institutional capabilities for ensuring an effective manpower: planning .process within the overall national development planning machinery. As a result of this endorsement, several actions were identified and suggested by the Conference for implementation at national, regional and international levels.At the national level, member-States are requested among other things, to take stock and appraise the status, effectiveness and adequacy of existing capabilities and machineries for: a) Human resources planning b) Determining the extent, to which existing human resource stock is being appropriately assessed, developed and mobilized; c) Determining priority areas and. initiating measures for establishing /strengthening of the institutional structures staffing and funding arrangements.