These programmes aim at enhancing managerial and technical skills in partner countries and other developing countries, and covering subjects of strategic importance to economic and social development.
Special emphasis will be placed on areas where Sweden has a considerable level of expertise to offer e.g. transport, communications, energy, environmental protection and industry. A number of training programmes will also cover the social sector e.g. health and human rights.
About 25-30 persons will participate in each training programme. The majority of the programmes has a multi-part-structure. The first part comprise around 3-4 weeks training in Sweden. Approximately 6 months later, a regional seminar/follow-up of 6-10 days is organised in one of the participants home countries.
Between 1979 and 2001, about 25,500 individuals from 125 different countries participated in Sida’s International Training Programmes.
In 2006, 14 men and 10 women from Egypt participated in International Training Programmes, which covered different areas e.g. Railway Safety, Efficiency Use in Industry, Organic Agriculture, Integrated Transboundary Water Resource Management, Negotiating Trade Agreements, Journalism and Democracy, World Trade and Conformity Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Management of Hydropower Development, Sustainable Coastal Development, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights, Equal Status and Human Rights of Women in the Middle East and North Africa (held in Lebanon).