Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme (ITEC)
Updated: 25 Oct 2025
Ministry:
Ministry of External Affairs
Beneficiary:
Miscellaneous
Overview
ITEC, established in 1964, is a bilateral programme for international capacity building through technological cooperation with developing countries. It provides around 10,000 fully-funded training opportunities annually at over 100 premier Indian institutes and also supports select trilateral and regional initiatives.
- Instituted in 1964, ITEC is one of the oldest institutionalized arrangements for international capacity building.
- It is a demand-driven, response-oriented programme that focuses on addressing the needs of developing countries through innovative technological cooperation between India and the partnering nation.
- Although it is essentially a bilateral programme, its resources have also been used for financing trilateral and regional undertakings such as with the Economic Commission for Africa, UNIDO and G-77.
- It offers nearly 10,000 fully-funded in-person training opportunities at 100+ eminent institutes in India each year.
- It is administered by the Development Partnership Administration-II Division of the MEA.
