1. As a modest contribution towards this, we have offered 5 annual scholarships to ASEAN Secretariat officials to undertake short-duration training programmes in India in IT, management, audit, accounting and other specialised technical fields.

2. Analysis of projects related to the Criança Esperança Programme (eight projects) has been kept in Abeyance, since the involvement of UNESCO in this programme was to be examined in the light of an IOS-led evaluation and management audit exercise conducted later in the year