[Demand for human resources on the part of water and sanitation institutions]

The article considers three main aspects of the demand for human resources: manpower planning and overall planning, the components of a manpower planning system for a water supply and sewerage agency, and manpower as part of an institutional development strategy. It examines and defines the place of manpower planning in the broader context of overall planning, and in organizational planning in particular. It develops one by one the salient stages in a system for the planning of human resources and its support functions. Finally, the paper describes the strategies for comprehensive institutional development, which are valuable instruments for a philosophy of adaptation to change in an institution, and the application of the manpower development concept to the implementation of those strategies.