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Internal S&T Capacity
Expanding and empowering the scientific and technical workforce at USAID will stimulate novel thinking for solutions in development and ensure that such thinking spreads and remains throughout the Agency.
Through a variety of programs, tools and mechanisms, we will enable multi-disciplinary, multi-sectoral and multi-generational approaches to development by enhancing the teams of experts that work on these challenges.
AAAS S&T Policy & Jefferson Science Fellowship Programs
USAID has been a long-time host of AAAS S&T Policy Fellows, a fellowship program sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that offers PhD scientists and engineers an opportunity to work in Congress and federal agencies on policy issues.
Fellows are placed in Washington for one year with the option to extend for a second. In 2011 the Agency re-established the Overseas AAAS Fellowship program, which offers former fellows a chance to work an additional 2 years in USAID Missions.
 In conjunction with the State Department, USAID also hosts Jefferson Science Fellows, tenured faculty from U.S. institutions of higher learning who serve as advisors to the Agency for one year in Washington and remotely for a subsequent five years.
USAID has hosted one to two Fellows per year in the past and looks to expand the number of Jefferson fellows in the coming years.
Photo 2010-2011 Jefferson Science Fellows from USAID and State Department with Scretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
Futures Analysis
The disciplines inherent in Futures Analysis - scenario planning, data-mining, forecasting, trends analysis, and other analytic, textural and visual tools – will enable USAID to become a more rational and evidence-based development agency. The work can serve as a central driver for supporting Agency policy development and assisting our program planning and project design.
Link to vignettes from USAID's Symposium on Future Development Challenges
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