962 



3. UN Financing System: ($125,000) 



(Faculty training in Paraguay, Swaziland, plus new projects) 



4. Funds-in-Trust: ($250,000) 



(Sri Lanka, Libya institutes and national academies, self financed) 



5. Voluntary Contributions: ($10,000) 

 (Theresa McKay Fund in cooperation with ICSU) 



6. Associated Expert Scheme (AES) : ($54,000) 



Research, Training and International Cooperation 

 in Technology and the Engineering Sciences 



Regular program 



of which staff costs 



of which project costs 

 Regular program and overhead (64.3%) 

 Other sources (see below) 



Overall comment on VI. 2 : This program area includes potentially valu- 

 able training and cooperative research activities in the engineering 

 sciences and in technology directed towards the needs of developing 

 countries, of the slightly more than one million dollars provided for 

 projects, about $250,000/year go to infrastructure building possibly 

 appropriate for oversight by other UN agencies; $400,000/year to 

 engineering educational purposes; and $350,000/year to promotion of 

 cooperative interactions primarily at a regional level, also possibly 

 appropriate for other UN agency oversight. Although there appears to 

 be limited interaction with the U.S. engineering/industrial community 

 in implementing program VI. 2 activities, there would be even less 

 direct U.S. oversight of program planning and management after U.S. 

 withdrawal from UNESCO. Current annual U.S. contributions in support 

 of VI. 2 regular program activities plus overhead ($4.5 million) are 

 about $1.1 million; the U.S. share of program costs ($2.8 million) 

 would be $700,000/year. Significant sup- port from other sources, 

 particularly UNDP and Funds-in-Trust, total more than $11.6 million 

 per year. It is proposed that support for multilateral activities on 

 the order of $700, 000/year , including oversight/overhead costs be pro- 

 vided beginning with FY 86. It is important to support an appropriate 

 body sensitive to U.S. interests, such as NSF and/or NRC, to monitor 

 these activities. This is an important area which will benefit from 

 much greater involvement by U.S. professional engineering societies. 



Alternative Option 1 : This overall program could involve U.S. 

 engineering professional organizations working with international 



