The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) is an Inter-governmental Organisation with a Membership of 47 developing countries spread over Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. Besides the above, 15 S&T agencies and academic/research institutions from Bolivia, Brazil, India, Nigeria and Turkey are Members of the "NAM S&T-Industry Network" of the Centre. The Centre was set up in 1989 in New Delhi to promote South-South Cooperation through mutually beneficial partnerships among the scientists and technologists and scientific organisations in the NAM and other developing countries. The Centre is engaged in the promotion of cooperation among the developing countries on STI Diplomacy, STI Policy Formulation, Sustainable Development, Technology Transfer & Commercialization and other related areas in partnership with various S&T institutions and agencies.
The Centre implements a variety of scientific programmes including international work-shops, meetings, roundtables, training courses, training workshops and collaborative R&D projects and brings out scientific publications, including edited books and a quarterly NAM S&T Newsletter. In addition, the Centre is also implementing Fellowship Schemes in various fields of Science and Technology in partnership with Centres of Excellence in Egypt, Pakistan, Germany, Nigeria and South Africa.
The Centre has so far organised 118 international workshops and training pro-grammes, implemented four collaborative projects and brought out 85 books, state-of-the-art reports and monographs.