Training course in human resources planning in Africa: 18 July - 8 Sept 1967 Dakar, Senegal

Abstract

The first ECA sponsored training course for African Manpower Planners and Administrators of National Training Programme was conducted at the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) in Dakar. The course which ran from 18 July to 8 September 1961 was designed to provide technical training for senior government officials in the approaches, techniques and methodology of manpower planning and the translation of manpower programmes into training programmes. The ILO, UNESCO, FAD, WHO, UNIDO and USAID collaborated by contributing resource personnel to offer lectures and lead seminar discussions. This course was planned as the first in a series of annual training courses in order to assist member States build up corps of indigenous manpower special needed for the assessment of manpower and training requirements. The course materials in the form of summaries of lectures are being put together in this mimeographed handbook for the benefit of participants in similar courses in the future as well as for the information of practitioners who might not be able to attend some of these courses.