Advanced developing country training program

The project is designed to strengthen institutional and commercial linkages and to foster the application of U.S. technology to critical ADC development problems. The Brazil program will focus on four priority areas: child survival, AIDS, agroforestry, and drug abuse prevention education. Training will be mostly in the United States and will consist primarily of short-term technical training, with some limited long-term technical training and short conferences and seminars. Women will constitute at least 40% of the participants. The Chile program will focus on short-term U.S. technical training for vocational and technical trainers from the public and private sectors, with some limited support for U.S. and in-country conferences and seminars. The Mexico program will emphasize training in nine fields: private sector enterprise, population and family planning, health and child survival, education and training, agriculture and rural development, biological diversity and ecology, drug abuse prevention and education, AIDS, and energy. Project training will consist mainly of short-term U.S. technical training, but will also include some long-term academic training as well as conferences, seminars, and observational tours. The objectives of the Paraguay program are being revised to support the economic and political changes in that country. Current plans are to focus project efforts in three areas: public policy training, improvement of local training capacity in priority areas, and private sector training. The project will provide short- and long-term U.S. technical training to managers in public and private sector institutions and some in-country training. The Uruguay program will strengthen the Catholic University as an alternative to the national university system, which has only a limited capacity in business training. Efforts will focus on six priority fields: management, agribusiness, tourism, service industries, information systems, and health administration. The project will consist primarily of long-term academic training for CU faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, principally those with whom CU already enjoys an institutional relationship. Some short-term technical training and attendance at conferences for individuals from the government and business communities will also be funded. All country programs will include a follow-on and evaluation component; Experience America activities will be included where appropriate.