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Summary Report of Group No. 2
Problem: Lack of Local Resources
Although the group was not required to establish a priority among the four
problems presented for discussion, it wished to express an opinion that local
resources--manpower and material resources--are of utmost importance and are
basic to solving other problems.
With respect to the following recommendations, it should be noted that condi-
tions within the country or needs of a country may often require a modification
of these recommendations or possible development of a completely new approach.
The suggested recommendations are:
1. Three or four regional training centers should be set up during the coming
year to train professional, technical, and para-professional assistants in the
fields of nutrition, food technology, administration of child feeding programs
and/or other disciplines which might be required.
. These technical training centers shall be expansions of existing technical
centers or educational centers which already have achieved the competency in one
or more of these disciplines, e.g. INCAP, National Institute of Nutrition in
Bogota, Nutrition Research Center in the Philippines, Department of Nutrition
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
3. The personnel should be trained at in-country institutions or at an institu-
tion located in the region, and trained in the U.S. only under special circum-
stances, e.g. training of government personnel in food economics to assist
industries attempting to locate in the country or training of personnel in
education methods to assist in in-country training.
4 .
Training should result in two levels of technical personnel:
a.
The degree level or possibly the graduate level.
b. The para-professional personnel who may receive one or two years of
practical and limited theoretical training--the relation of these two should
be at least ten para-professionals to one higher level personnel.
5. The competent staff in established centers should be augmented by temporary
junior staff instructors from U.S., recognizing that as the training progresses,
nationals may take over the work of visiting junior staff.
6. The instruction should include practical training involving research for the
higher levels of training and experience in local problems for the para-profes-
sional personnel.
7. These training programs should coordinate closely with existing programs such
as: a. the New International Education Act of HEW and its operation; b. the
USDA training program in home economics; c. the interagency training centers
such as PAHO and WHO and international agencies.
8. Emphasis in training of manpower should be placed on instruction and not on
facilities. It is recommended that possibly 75% of the funding be for training
and 25% be for physical facilities.
Source: https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/mldg0227

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