Accounting courses for USAID Egypt

Posted Wed, 05/06/2009 - 11:50 by ryan

USAID Egypt

The Cairo office of USAID has become the training hub for USAID outside of Washington DC. They hired a team from Utah State University to create/update 2 courses to be delivered in Cairo to a large multicultural audience. The project took us to Cairo for over 3 weeks where we presented the material to USAID trainers, observed the courses, offered feedback to presenters, and wrote our final evaluation.

I created our online communication site, was the technical consultant for the team and was the sole member of the group who worked on both courses. I am currently finishing an evaluation of the team for future international experiences from USU.

Project information

  • Led by Dr. Joanne Bentley
    • 15 person team (10 of which went to Cairo)
  • 1200 pages printed training material
  • 80 hours of power point slides
  • 60% improvement from pre and post tests
  • 2 day "Train the Trainer" course
  • 24 days in Cairo Egypt

My roles

  • Instructional Designer
  • Trainer
  • Technical Consult
  • Evaluator

Done Differently?

Much more communication should have happened between our group and USAID. To some point this was a natural process as there was bound to be some miscommunication due to culture, yet there was little documentation created and very little written agreement.

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