Co-operation in Social and Professional Fields

Abstract

In addition to the programmes of economic and technical cooperation and assistance described in the previous chapter, a number of Secretariat divisions and programmes are engaged in promoting functional co-operation in what may be broadly designated as areas of social policy: education, health, management, women and development, youth affairs, law and science. Information and research are common to all these programmes; operational tasks are in some cases financed by the CFTC’s ‘Y’ vote although, as noted in Chapter 2, the Commonwealth Youth Programme (CYP) and the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) have separate funding, the former through voluntary and the latter through assessed contributions. External funding is also forthcoming for some projects. Programmes in education, health, management, women and development and youth, together with the CFTC’s Fellowship and Training Programme described in the last chapter, are now loosely linked in the Human Resource Development Group (HRDG), which through consultation about current and planned projects and, in some cases, through their joint implementation, brings greater co-ordination to the Secretariat’s work assisting governments to build manpower skills.