Final evaluation of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population Cooperative Agreement (936-3035).

The USAID Office of Population has had two cooperative agreements with the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population (NAS/CPOP) between 1985 and 1995. Both agreements provided funding to support research on population issues of special interest to the international population community. The purpose of this evaluation has been to determine how USAID may make best use of the expertise of the NAS based on the experience of the previous two cooperative agreements. The evaluation was conducted over the period March 8 - 31 1995 by Dr. Julie DaVanzo Director of the Family in Economic Development Center at RAND and Ms. Barbara Seligman Senior Research Scientist The Futures Group International. The Committee on Population (CPOP) was established as a standing committee of NAS in 1983 to bring the knowledge and methods of the population sciences to bear on major issues of science and public policy. As with the rest of NAS scholars who are members of CPOP or participate in the panels workshops and expert meetings that it organizes serve as volunteers donating their time without compensation. Committee members are chosen for their particular expertise and with regard to appropriate balance. From its inception CPOP members have represented a variety of disciplinary perspectives including demography sociology economics anthropology public health medicine and statistics and have brought expertise on a wide range of population-related topics and on nearly all parts of the world. (excerpt)