Pan African Instiute for Development - Central Africa

B.P. 4078, Douala, Cameroon

Phone : +237 33403770 / 406423 / Fax : +237 33403068

Web site : ipd-ac.org/

Prior to the establishment in 1964 of the Pan African Institute for Development (PAID), there was an identified need for development agents, particularly in government, to collaborate with the limited number of elite officers, often trained overseas, to foster socio-economic development, particularly in the rural areas. The fact that no national institution for training such personnel existed also encouraged the emergence of this regional Institute. The increasing need for training middle level development personnel as well as the auspicious environment prevailing in the sixties led to the rapid growth and expansion of PAID. Within a span of 14 years, PAID established four sub regional training centres whose services covered the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. These are:

Pan African Institute for Development – Central Africa (IPD-AC), Douala, Cameroon in 1965;
Pan African Institute for Development-West Africa (PAID-WA), Buea, Cameroon in 1969;
for the Sahel and francophone West Africa, IPD-AOS, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1978;
and Pan African Institute for Development – East and Southern Africa (PAID-ESA), Kabwe, Zambia in 1979.