The Regional Group for Educational Planning and Administration was instituted by U.N.E.S.C.O. at the end of 1965, to help produce and train educational planners and administrators in Africa south of the Sahara, and to encourage research, exchanges, and co-operation in this field. Established at Dakar, the Group is working directly under U.N.E.S.C.O.'s Department of Educational Planning and Finance and is co-operating with the International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris, the Regional School Building Centre for Africa at Khartoum, and other regional groups for educational planning established elsewhere in the world.