Colombo Plan

Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific
Flag of the Colombo Plan
Current (blue) and former (yellow) members of the Colombo Plan.
Headquarters	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Official languages	English
Type	Economic forum
Member countries	Current (28)  Afghanistan  Australia  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Brunei  Chile  Fiji  India  Indonesia  Iran  Japan  Laos  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia  Myanmar    Nepal  New Zealand  Pakistan  Papua New Guinea  Philippines  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  South Korea  Sri Lanka  Thailand  United States  Vietnam Former (4)  Cambodia  Canada  South Vietnam  United Kingdom
Leaders
• Secretary-General	Dr. Benjamin P. Reyes
Establishment
• Establishmenta	28 November 1950
• Commencement	1 July 1951
Website http://www.colombo-plan.org/
As the "Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and South-East Asia".

The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization that began operations on 1 July 1951. The organization was conceived at an international conference, The Commonwealth Conference on Foreign Affairs held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950, and was attended by the finance ministers of Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, Pakistan and New Zealand, and the prime ministers of Ceylon and India. Membership has expanded significantly over the years to the current 28 governments.

The primary focus of its work is on the development of human resources in the south and southeast regions of Asia. Aid to education 1950 to 1983 came to $72 billion, of which $41 billion came from the United States.^[1][2]