Final report on USAID grant number DPE-5543-G-SS-8057-01

Two sets of activities were made possible by the grant. (1) The grant partially supported AAAS"s Sub-Saharan Africa Journal Distribution Program, which provides current subscriptions to U.S. scientific and engineering journals to African universities and research institutes. Under this program, 100 learned U.S. societies and organizations -- in widely ranging fields (e.g., pediatrics, the arts, cereal chemistry, physics, history, musicology, numismatics, philology, folklore, metallurgy, range management, soil science, the Renaissance, anthropology, management science, etc.) -- made available free of charge almost 200 journal titles to more than 250 sub-Saharan institutions. (2) The grant also funded a feasibility study and action plan for a program to promote the maintenance and repair of research equipment in developing countries. The study is included as an annex in this report. Also forming part of this report, though not funded by A.I.D., is a 1991 survey of computer and CD-ROM capabilities in sub-Saharan university and research libraries; some information on available databases and documentation of indigenous research is included.