What can be concluded from the losses of human resources that are critical for capacity development?
Most obvious are the losses of human capital due to the epidemic skilled, educated, and unskilled men and women, in both urban and rural locations. One important issue is how to sustain production in circumstances of high morbidity and mortality across wide swathes of the active labour force. All programmes and projects have to deal with this fact: how can production be maintained in the face of ongoing and often severe losses of labour? Losses may be disruptive precisely because they are not confined to categories of labour that may be “easily” replaceable, but also affect many categories of more specialised labour including supervisory and managerial components. It follows • that capacity development strategies have to address the maintenance of productive capacity across many sectors of production in both formal and informal productive organisations in both urban and rural locations. • that because households are integrally affected both as economic units as well as ones with import
