Partnership in Capacity Building
The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC) is India’s leading capacity building platform for foreign partners. ITEC is one of the oldest institutionalised arrangements for development cooperations institutes on 15 September 1964 as a bilateral programme of assistance of the Government of India.
The underlying objective was to establish relations of mutual concern and inter-dependence based not only on commonly held ideals and aspirations, but also on solid economic foundations.
The ITEC Programme has the following components:
- Training (civilian and defence) in India of nominees from the ITEC partner countries
- Deputation of Indian experts abroad
- Study Tours
It operates through varied modalities such as:
- eITEC (for online trainings using digital delivery platforms),
- ITEC-Executive (short-term policy-focussed, in-person trainings for senior government executives),
- ITEC-Onsite
- ITEC-Expert (onsite capacity building assignments carried out by Indian experts).