countriea, to agaist then in assessing their reouirements in cerma of manporrer and facilitles and fornulaEion of project proposals for submission co UNDP and other international funding organizations. The naior constraint in tbe develoPnent of I{SCP is Ehe aeriou8 lack of adesuate fundihg to implenent the activlty.A/40/549 English Page 24 115. h the fleld of soclal science, tralnlng and professlonal developoent fornatlonal personnel engaged ir plannlng and evaluatlon constituteg a priority foroof action for T NESCO, The activltles include tralnlng of natlonal personnel lnnethod€ and technlgues of developoent planning and evaluation, and strengthenlng systems of trainlng in thls fleld in developing countrleg. 116. During 1984-1985, national training sorkshops on the elsboratlon and use oftools and oethods of lntegrated develoErcnt planning were held in Nepa I anat the sudan and are plahned to be held ln Fljt, Itaitl, Jaoalca and Somalia. Nationaltraining courses in the use of the UNESCO Educatlonal Sioulation Uodel as a tool ofeducattonal management were held ln Bangladesh, portugal and Nicaragua. A nationaltralning course in evaluation oethods and techniques iras held in Malaui and tt ofurther trainlng courses are planned to be held in Trinialad and Tobago and SlerraLeone. fb w€s expectett that so6e 325 natlonal officials would be tralned throuqh these programmes. 1r7- Three operationar projects financed by uNDp, are 6t present belng carrled out,tno ln Africa - "Assistance to the fnstitute of techniques of planning and AppliedEconooics, Alqeriar and 'Appllcatlon of soclo-econonic indicators in developoentplanning and adoiniatratlon in Ntgerla' - and a subreglonal project ln Arabstates - isocio-econoolc plannlng for the sahel reglonn. The tmmediate objectiveaof all these three projects i8 to build up and strengthen national capacity lnlntegrated developoent planning by devising and adaptlng appropriate lnstrunentE and oethods and training national personnel. 1r8. Furthernorer the divlsron of developoent studiee has organlzed for the
**Analysis**
The text appears to be focused on international development projects, training programs, and funding organizations, with a specific emphasis on social science, planning, and evaluation. The projects mentioned are related to building national capacity for integrated development planning, which suggests a strong connection to economic development and planning. The text also mentions training programs in education, evaluation methods, and socioeconomic indicators, which further supports the idea that this text falls under the category of economic development.

**Category**
Economic development, Education