Management education and training : review of experience

The study focuses on the experience of A.I.D. over the past 15 years, but also considers the work of other donor organizations. Chapter 2 reviews background information about the history of A.I.D. investments in management education and training in the LAC region. Chapter 3 describes the range of approaches possible in management development activities and summarizes the experience with these alternatives. Chapters 4 through 7 review specific issues of donor experience in management development, project design, institutional strengthening, and planning and evaluation that are relevant to management education and training. Chapter 8 examines the dynamics of the relationship between the management education and training organizations in developing countries and the donor organization and addresses some of the issues raised earlier from the perspective of the impact of the project itself on goals such as sustainability and institutional strengthening. Finally, four case studies are presented in the Appendix. Each case study focuses on the investment made by A I.D. in a particular management education or training institute. The studies cover: the University of the West Indies; the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE); the Institute for the Development of Entrepreneurs and Administrators (IDEA) in Bolivia; and the Managers and Entrepreneurs Association of Honduras (GEMAH). (Author abstract)