Development training

training of Egyptian development personnel. Under leadership of the Ministry of Management Development"s (MMD) Central Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA), the project will provide three types of training and help the Government of Egypt (GOE) rationalize its training investments. The tripartite training program will be as follows. (1) To continue the Peace Fellowship Program (PFP -- Project 2630110), the project will provide 1,275 public and private sector personnel with (mostly U.S.) graduate training focusing on key sector problems. The program will improve trainee follow-up, involve GOE ministries more directly in the program, and develop linkages between U.S. and Egyptian professional organizations. (2) As a successor to Project 2630026, the project will fund 4,500 months of U.S./third-country nonacademic training aimed at increasing the immediate operational efficiency of public and private sector personnel engaged in activities related to USAID/E projects. (3) The project will provide English-language training (ELT) to 10,000 persons -- 6,000 who need it for use within Egypt, 4,000 who need it as a prerequisite for offshore training; CAOA will screen all training requests. This component will also conduct an 18-month ELT survey to develop new approaches to ELT and support efforts of regional university-based Egyptian centers to develop residential ELT programs. Qualified Egyptians will begin to replace American personnel in the ELT programs of the Fulbright Program and American University of Cairo. To develop the GOE"s capacity to rationalize its training investments and make optimal use of its personnel, a contractor will: help the CAOA standardize procedures for developing training plans and manuals; train a cadre of CAOA staff to teach the new procedures to employees throughout the GOE; and help the CAOA develop a talent bank of Egyptian expertise and procedures for periodically assessing Egyptian training needs and in-country training facilities. The project will also upgrade 10 Egyptian training institutions via long- and short-term TA, instructional materials, and long-term U.S. training for 200 persons and 550 months of short-term in-country training. Amendment of 8/20/89 reorganizes the project into 4 components: (1) offshore, primarily U.S., training; (2) ELT (including programs to upgrade and better manage ELT generally, to train Ministry of Education (MOE) and university-level English teachers, to train and test A.I.D. participants, and to develop residential facilities for intensive ELT); (3) upgrading of selected management training institutions; and (4) workers" education, provided by the African-American Labor Center (AALC). (PD-ABA-858) Amendment of 9/30/90 restructures the project into 9 components: (1) PFP, targeting 1,250 participants; (2) nonproject training to upgrade professionals, technicians, and managers in areas not covered by other A.I.D. projects (740 months of long-term training and 2,700 of short-term); (3-5) integrated ELT, including (a) pre-service teacher training in regional universities and support for the Center for English Language Teaching (CDELT) at Ain Shams University, (b) inservice teacher training, and (c) special purpose ELT; (6) English language testing and training (with annual respective targets of 1,850 and 750); (7-8) institutional upgrading for management development, to (a) improve planning and coordination and (b) upgrade program quality; and (9) AALC"s worker education program for the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), with targets to train 3,600 workers in standardized courses and 180 ETUF women leaders. Components have varying PACDs, the latest being 9/25/95. (PD-CBF-767). Amendment of 9/23/93 sets the PACD for the entire project at 9/25/95 and targets an additional: (1) 50 long-term and 130 short-term PFP participants; (2) 350 short-term and 50 long-term nonproject participants, and 200 in-country nonproject participants; (3-5) 4,000 English instructors and 92 junior staff, professors, and deans for pre-service training; and 2,080 English language teachers for inservice training, with some level of training for another 2,100 (a Teacher Exchange Segment will be included in the inservice program); (6) 4,480 and 2,250 English testing and training participants, respectively; (9) a 2-year extension of the grant to AALC, with emphasis on strengthening the Workers" Education Association, Workers" University, and the ETUF and on developing a vocational training program in construction. No additional activities are planned under the management training components (7-8). (PD-ABH-997)