Human resource development challenges associated with Civil Society Organisations (CSOS) in Borno, Nigeria

Human resource development is a key area in personnel planning and management or human resources field in general that emphasize on enhancing the knowledge and skills of employees working in certain organisations in order to make them upto date, enhance their performance, increase productivity, and cope with general challenges associated with work or service delivery. As much as its importance, human resource development is faced with a number of challenges particularly in organisations that are not static, have poor planning, funding challenge, and employees with poor attitude to training and development. The paper is a qualitative research that adopted a survey approach to generate data using indepth interviews with selected civil society groups operating in the state. The objective of this study is to examine the capacity development training challenges associated with the operations of civil society organisations (CSOs)’ operation in Borno State Nigeria. The study sampled and interacted with 30 civil society organisations with emphasis on both management and human resource - based staff in the sampled organisations. The study revealed that human resource - based training opportunities are unavailable for CSOs, and there is further difficulty accessing the available training opportunities in the state for many CSOs. In some cases, employees frequently change organisations in search for better opportunities especially around high payment expectations. Other CSOs are genuinely busy with many projects taking place in deep field which makes it very difficult for them to assess training opportunities especially in situation where they are based or operate in hard-to-reach communities.