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strengthen and enlarge the international cooperation existing between 

 the members of the Consortium of Affiliates of International Programs 

 (CAIP) of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

 Members of this consortium of scientific and engineering societies 

 already have pledged themselves to increase the participation of Third 

 World scientists in their programs and the flow of their materials to 

 these colleagues abroad. Such programs as that of the American 

 Physics Association to upgrade the quality of teaching and research in 

 physics in Latin America provide a model of what could develop for a 

 range of scientific and engineering societies from the USA in programs 

 for Africa. 



5. Training Grants - Funding also would be devoted to training 

 individual scholars and teams of scholars in areas which are 

 peculiarly short of scientists and technologists and which are not 

 being supported by other African government or donor programs such as 

 that of the UNDP and the Training Programs of USAID. 



Flexible small grants would be made available for African S&T 

 specialists visiting the USA on other programs to extend their stay in 

 order to add seminars, conferences, and individual consultation with 

 other US scientists. 



Other awards could provide for visits by US scientists to Africa 

 to offer seminars, consultation, and other instruction to upgrade 

 Africa S&T for development. 



Another category of awards would provide special grants to 

 African scholars in training in the USA for dissertation field 

 research in Africa and in the USA on return from the field. Many 

 young African scholars are completing dissertations on non-African 



