This publication presents the Report and Selected Papers of the Expert Group Meeting on Training in Family Planning Programme Administration, convened by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok from 9–17 December 1974 and published in 1976. The report addresses the growing need to strengthen management and administrative capacity in national family planning programmes across the ESCAP region. Emphasis is placed on short-term, practice-oriented training for senior and middle-level administrators responsible for planning, coordination, evaluation, and implementation of population programmes