Human and institutional research development

The lead implementing agency will be the GOZ"s National Commission for Development Planning (NCDP). The project will provide U.S. postgraduate (largely M.A.) training in economic, technical, and managerial skills to Zambians currently employed in high- and mid-level positions and to those with the potential to be promoted to such posts, but requiring additional training to replace the expatriates now employed. The training will be chiefly for those already holding undergraduate degrees in business administration, accounting, statistics, management, and economics. A total of 160 person-years of long-term training will be provided, resulting in approximately 64 graduate degrees. In addition, about 300 person-months of short-term U.S. or third-country training will be provided for senior managers and administrators in the Civil Service and parastatals, and a another 1,000 person-months of short-term in-country training (in the form of short courses, analytical workshops, seminars, and conferences) will be provided to senior- and mid-level professionals generally. Finally, the project will provide 19 person-years of long-term TA to strengthen GOZ institutions, especially those involved in technical and managerial training. Specifically, the project will supply (1) a public administration advisor for the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA); (2) a senior statistician and a personnel economist/planner for the NCDP; (3) a statistics professor for the University of Zambia (UNZA) Lusaka campus; and (4) an accounting professor and a business administration/management professor for UNZA/Ndola. A total of 5 person-years of short-term TA in economics, development planning, etc. will also be available on an as-needed basis. Some supporting commodities (e.g., educational materials for NIPA and UNZA, computers for UNZA) will also be financed. Amendment of 12/4/89 codifies several changes already informally in effect. It reduces funding by $2 million (due to a 10/85 reallocation of funds to Zambia"s currency auction); extends PACD 9 months to 6/91; reduces targets to 75 person-months of long-term training, 60 person-months of short-term external training, and 100 person-months of short-term in-country training; reduces the number of long-term advisors to 3; and eliminates development of a Zambian institutional capability to provide development-related training as an EOPS indicator. (PD-ABA-436)