45. - ODM has made use of the services of the Royal Institute of Public Administration to undertake training in management services, both in Britain and overseas, for central government personnel from Indonesia and the Sudan. The Institute of Local Government Studies, Birmingham University, has been engaged to provide training for local government staff in the Southern Sudan. The Institute also provides, with ODM financial support, short courses in UK on specific aspects of local government management.
W Research and Development
46. During 1976, the ODM financed research and development to support an increased programme investigating the economic and social problems of the developing countries. $ (€12.2 million) was spent in all, most of it on problems of global and regional import rather than those confined to a single country. The greater part of the expenditure went on research in the field of renewable natural resources (agriculture, livestock production and health, pest control, fisheries and forestry) and there were also major outlays on medical, economic and social research (including population problems) and research connected with water resources and road and building construction.
A fuller
account of the ODM's research and development activities is contained in the Ministry's "Report on Research and Development 1976", published by Her Majesty's Stationery
Office.
47. The ODM supports research and development programmes pment programmes in, or on behalf of, developing countries in four main
ways:-
(a) By way of grants for research projects carried
out on a contract basis by individual researchers or teams, usually based on universities or similar institutions. $
devoted to this in 1976;
(b)
(£5 million) was
Support to British scientific establishments. Some $
(€10 million) was allocated for 1976 for recurrent support to Centres in Britain which give scientific and technical help to the /developing