Global Training for Development (GTD)
1997 - 2000
Between 1997 and 2000, AAI administered the United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) funded, Global Training for Development (GTD) program as a subcontractor of World Learning. GTD was built on the success of AAI's Partners for International Education and Training (PIET) program, which ran from 1982 to 1997 and trained over 6,000 Africans over its 14 year history. Under GTD, AAI administered a broad array of short-term certificate and long-term academic degree programs, in which 545 participants from Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe were trained in capacity-building fields that included economic development, natural resource management, education, health and agriculture. The GTD academic program was complimented with conferences, internships and observational study tours.
AAI activities included designing training programs and training enrichment activities, managing recruitment details, and monitoring participant studies. One component of the GTD program assisted USAID in addressing critical health issues facing Africa by placing African participants in public health, nursing and environmental health programs throughout the United States. In addition, AAI arranged short-term training for 75 public sector managers in programs as diverse as health reform, implementing public health programs, epidemiology, adolescent reproduction and sexuality, and family health.
Total number of participants trained: 545