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Since 1998, USAID’s education partnership program has established over 160 partnerships involving more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities from 40 states. These partnerships are building the capacity of 160 developing country higher education, research, and training institutions in 58 countries. Specifically these partnerships:
- Improve the quality of teacher training colleges and institutes;
- Improve the administration of higher education and workforce institutions;
- Improve agriculture productivity while managing natural resources;
- Improve workforce development skills and economic productivity;
- Improve education and promote democratic principles;
- Improve health, nutrition, and reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS; and
- Improve Internet and communications technology.
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The Executive Director of the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, Joan M. Claffey, and Afghan Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Sharif Fayez (on right), discuss the Purdue University/Kabul University partnership. |
A key mechanism supporting USAID’s education partnership effort is a cooperative agreement between USAID and the nation’s six major higher education associations which represent more than 4,070 institutions from all sectors of American higher education. The Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, established in 1992, coordinates and administers the CA, and established more than 140 partnerships of up to $125,000 with its member institutions to plan and implement development programs with colleges and universities abroad. Click here to learn more about this important agency partnership activity.
The services of the United Negro College Fund Special Programs (UNCFSP) is also utilized by USAID to support the collaboration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with institutions of higher education throughout the world. Click here to learn more about UNCFSP’s International Development Partnerships activity that supports more than 25 partnerships of up to $200,000 each to HBCUs that successfully compete for partnerships with institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
USAID recognizes the U.S. higher education community as a national asset. As a result, it has developed information for interested institutions on how to do business with USAID at our Web site U.S. Higher Education Community: Doing Business with USAID.
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