Partners for International Education and Training (PIET)
1982 – 1997
Between 1982 and 1997, AAI acted as the managing partner for the Partners for International Education and Training (PIET) program, which was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). AAI was responsible for project-wide management and administration of PIET, which sponsored individuals from sub-Saharan Africa to participate in short-course programs and earn associate’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at academic institutions in the United States. Areas of study were in critical capacity-building fields, including public health, computer technology, politics, education, business, environmental law, finance, marketing, and tax administration.
Under the PIET program, AAI activities included arranging placements as well as monitoring and evaluating participants. In its 14-year history, PIET had an extensive impact on human resources development on the African continent, training over 6,000 individuals from 47 sub-Saharan African countries. While PIET ended in 1997, its successor program, Global Training for Development (GTD) which ran from 1997 to 2000, trained 545 Africans in similar capacity-building fields.
Total Number of Participants: 6,000 +