Report of the Panel of Experts on the establishment of an African Institute for Economic Development and Planning

Abstract

The working rules of the United Rations Special Fund allow for the presentation of 3-year programmes. As the Institute must be expected to grow gradually from a very modest "beginning, the panel worked out a possible path of five years length along which this growth might take place. In the following, the situation of the Institute in the fifth year of its development is discussed under the headings: planning course, introductory oourses, seminars, advisory services, resoaroh. Based on this analysis, an estimate is then given of the requirements of staff implied in these activities. Tha possible pattern of growth of the activities of the Institute in its first five years is then spelt out and this report concludes with a few remarks on the need for co-operation with other agencies.