| Abstract: | The Expert Group Meeting to Develop a Guide for Establishing a National Population Information Clearing-house and Network System met at Bangkok in September 1979 to discuss a guide to facilitate the establishing of national population information clearing-houses and network systems in the region. It was envisaged that the prototype guide would facilitate in harmonizing the efforts of international agencies called upon by government to help insdetting up information systems. The contents of the guide were to be developed under the following chapter headings: 1) introduction; 2) conceptual framework of a clearing-house; 3) setting up a clearing-house, institutional framework; 4) networking in a national population information system; 5) program development; 6) evaluation; 7) technical assistance and funding; and, 8) various approaches to developing a national population information system. Follow-up action called for a wider circulation of the draft guide, pre-testing in selected countries, and stepped-up organization of national population information systems. |
