Multinational - Institutionnal Support to East and Southern African Management Institute

9.3,,The provision of financial support to research institutions has important advantages. One is that the Bank would be facilitating research into Africa's development problems by easing the financial constraints on such institutions. In its role as a facilitator, the Bank would be enhancing development research in Africa far beyond what its current human and financial resources would permit. Another advantage is that the Bank would be able to tap into the research findings of such institutions in the implementation of its own mandate. The combination of these advantages would progressively confer on the Bank the status of a knowledge centre on African development issues as envisaged by the Vision document.