In confidence
7 Geographical priorities
Total global budget by geographical region
1990/91
Middle East and
North Africa 9%
Americas 7%
South Asia 15%
£348 million
Asia Pacific 17%
Africa 30%
Western Europe 18%
Eastern Europe 4%
Figure 4
7.1 The increases in the government grant in 1989/90 and 1990/91 enable the Council to take action on the most important of its priorities and remove any immediate requirement to meet a budgetary deficit by dismantling overseas work. The further development of overseas work to achieve the objectives described below depends
on:
⚫ achieving a higher real level of government grant income; a summary of additional proposals is given in table 9, page 27
⚫ increasing co-financing
⚫ increasing agency business
• achieving revenue surpluses.
7.2 The Council's first priorities lie in Europe, in the special case presented by the British position in Hong Kong, and in Southern Africa. Council priorities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East are in line with aid objectives; thereafter, regional priorities are, in order, the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Asia, the Americas - where particular importance is given to developing work in the United States, Africa.
Eastern Europe
(Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, German Democratic Republic (GDR), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia)
7.3 The Council's activity in Eastern Europe is currently almost wholly funded from the government grant. However, the Council aims to increase its agency work by continuing to develop a significant project management role within the government's Know-How funding for assistance to Eastern Europe.
1Only those countries in which Council-managed funds are spent are listed for each geographical area. An asterisk denotes a non-represented country (at 31 March 1990).
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