POPULATION MANAGEMENT

A key requirement in the planning, development and management of human population, National economy, National manpower, National Security, and National Resources is the knowledge of the population of a nation. Population management, entails the processes and procedures involved in the acquisition, storage, retrieval, analysis and dissemination of appropriate information designed to manage the human resources of the people(s) living within a particular geographical entity. The implementation of an effective population management system, will determine to a large extent, the degree of success or failure of any hybrid programme designed to provide and manage sub-settlement projects within and without (as occasioned by refugee problems) the geographical entity. Such population management system will require some critical but efficient information processing tools that may require the setting of certain standards, procedures and designs (of appropriate hardware and software packages). A strategic composite of such a system is the Geo-referenced Information System (GIS), a system designed for the capturing, storing, checking, retrieving, integrating, analyzing, and displaying spatial information. The authors adopted parts of the 1991 census data of Nigeria for a sample implementation. The results indicate that, if optimally applied, the system stands to enhance planning, decision-making, policy formulation, resource allocation and developmental programs of government, non-governmental organizations, International bodies and other corporate entities with sufficient interest in managing human resources management. 1