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, tailor-made, and academic programs in the United States, ranging from associate to doctoral degrees. Areas of study were in critical capacity-building fields, including AIDS prevention and care, computer applications, democratization, education policy, business, environmental law, finance, marketing, tax administration and women and family health.
Under the PIET program, AAI activities included coordinating communication, arranging placements, monitoring and evaluating participants. In its 14-year history, PIET has had an extensive impact on human resources development on the 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 capacity-building fields.
Total Number of Participants: 6,000 +