CHAPTER XIII HUMAN RESOURCES, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, HEALTH AND POPULATION Article 71 Human Resources 1. Member States agree to cooperate with a view to developing, planning and utilising their human resources. 2. To this end, they undertake to: (a) Adopt and promote a common policy on planning, programming, professional training and harmonize their employment and income policies; (b) Coordinate their policies and activities in the fields of training, planning and career guidance and counselling; (c) Improve their information and recruitment services in order to facilitate, in particular, the search for, and recruitment of African experts; (d) Encourage consultancy agencies to promote the use of African experts and the development of local consultancy services; and (e) Adopt employment policies that shall allow the free movement of persons within the Community by strengthening and establishing labour exchanges aimed at facilitating the employment of available skilled manpower of one Member State in other Member States where there are shortages of skilled manpower. Article 72 Social Affairs 1. Member States agree to ensure the full participation and rational utilisation of their human resources in their development efforts with a view to eliminating other social scourges plaguing the continent. 2. To this end they undertake to: (a) Encourage the exchange of experiences and information on literacy, vocational training and employment; (b) Harmonize gradually their labour and social security legislation with a view to eliminating poverty and promoting balanced socio-economic development within the Community; 49