Dr. Abdun Noor, the current Coordinator of CMIDP at [email protected]. The CMIDP is located in Potomac, MD, USA 20854.

Dr. Abdun Noor has devoted his entire professional life of 45 years to foster development among least developing countries of Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America and Caribbean; of which 35 years were from the World Bank. Abdun has earned his PhD in Educational Administration from Michigan State University (1965); and studied at Graduate School of Education of Stanford University (1987). He joined the World Bank in 1970.

Dr.Noor’s development contribution encompasses five distinct dimensions of work. First, Abdun has managed long-term capacity development and institutional policy reforms both at international and national levels.

In early eighties, Abdun served as the lead Institutional Development Specialist for Central Policy Vice Presidency (CPS) of the World Bank; and articulated the role of national central policy agencies for decentralized planning, policy and decision-making levels. Abdun has led the World Bank’s Institutional Development and Capacity Building assistance program on education and manpower development for Iran and Saudi Arabia (1974); and contributed to the design of their programs of higher education, adult literacy, and teacher training and manpower development. Abdun has served as the Institutional Development Advisor, as a counter-part to the Minister of Higher Education in Ethiopia and helped in designing the plan for development of institutions of higher education of Ethiopia (1985-87). He has led to the preparation of the educational and manpower development program of the First Five Year Plan of the Governments of Bangladesh (1973), and the Fourth Five Year Development Plan of Pakistan (1968).

Second, Abdun has engaged in institutional policy reforms and in analytical research work for educational and manpower development across 30 least developing countries. As a young policy planner during early seventies, he has articulated for the World Bank its policy initiative on “Education and meeting of Basic Human Needs”(1977); also for the UNESCO he has written a think piece on “Managing Adult Literacy Programs”, which also became his key note presentation at the Arusha International Literacy Conference convened by the Unesco (1984). Abdun has advanced the cause of grass-root development by the civil society, articulated the role the NGO’s could play to discern that contribution, and within the World Bank organized and directed the first tripartite high level meeting of Clients, NGOs, and The World Bank representing 12 east and south African countries at Nairobi in 1983.