I was bugged down by the thought that how challenging is the Human Resource Management (HRM) on NGO setting. I thought of it for a while, talked to different people on the organization, and went through different google search. While doing so, I found one nice article written by Bernard C. Nwaiwu, CEO of the CEDE Trust Fund which has worded down all the thoughts I had. I couldn't agree more on the lines below (I have copied it below for your reference, you can go through the following link to read the full article) http://www.cedetf.org/uploads/publications/Legitimacy%20and%20human%20resources%20-%20Exermining%20some%20critically%20management%20challenges%20facing%20NGOs.pdf "Manpower planning is a major HRM challenge for NGO managers, who are saddled with the problem of staff recruitment and development. NGO recruitments are mostly project based. The implication of this is that project staff have a start date and a known end date, which makes it tight for