The Foundation for International Training (FIT) is a capacity building organisation that works to develop the institutional frameworks, organisational capabilities and skills required to realise social and economic development. By building new skills and enhancing existing ones, FIT’s programs develop social capital to achieve positive social change and lasting economic development. FIT and its partners share responsibility for project planning and design, resource allocation, organisation and implementation. Professional staff based in Toronto work with an international roster of training and development professionals to deliver effective programs. FIT is governed by a Board of leading internationalists.

Building capacities to manage development—within governments, among civil society organisations and in the private sector—is vital to ensuring equitable economic and social progress. FIT addresses this specific need through programs that aim to build capacities of local training institutions, service organizations, and NGOs to deliver skills development and training.

Since 1978, FIT has worked with its partners in Canada and overseas to define needs and to design and deliver training and technical assistance that is innovative and cost- effective. The direct involvement of its partners at all levels of the project cycle has assured mutual respect, ownership and responsibility. This partnership serves as a solid foundation on which to shape programs and build human capital to meet the needs of the future.