Population - development planning support

support, to establish an institutional capacity in key Latin American and francophone African countries to carry out economic-demographic analyses of development planning policies. The General Electric Center for Advanced Studies (GE-TEMPO) and other institutions will carry out studies and provide training and technical assistance (TA) to LDC planners and to A.I.D. GE-TEMPO personnel, in collaboration with teams of professionals from LDC population-development planning units, will conduct five intensive, country and regional, economic-demographic studies, will collaborate in assembling data needed to modify models promoting fertility decline (TEMPO I and II) developed in an earlier phase of the project, and will make projections and disseminate results. TA from GE-TEMPO will entail both critical review of development analyses prepared by others and carrying out new analyses using economic-demographic models. Specifically, GE-TEMPO consultants will: assist LDC teams (cf. above); conduct 10-14 TA visits to Missions, publishing the resulting studies and trip reports; and publish five sector and country population impact analyses for AID/W. Regarding training, GE-TEMPO will provide: six intensive, 2-week workshops on the methodology of economic-demographic models; four 1-week, regional conferences for 12 LDC professionals; and five individualized, 7-10 day programs in reading, consultation, and use of the DEMOS programmed learning system for five A.I.D. economists. Finally, GE-TEMPO will prepare nine in-house staff studies to provide additional educational materials to support all of the above activities. Once country projects have been given start-up financial and technical support and have demonstrated their value, local,international, public, or private donor support will be sought, i.e., as is currently happening in Venezuela and is planned in Columbia.