From 2006-2011 the Afghanistan Higher Education Project (HEP) addressed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Strategic Objective 7, “Improved preparation of teachers at Afghan faculties of education in universities and 4-year teacher training institutes”, and “Improved administrative and policy framework to sustain quality teaching, learning, and culture of excellence” and later Assistance Objective 3 “Improved Access to Quality Education.” HEP was part of umbrella programming to improve access to quality education throughout Afghanistan. Since 2006 HEP has worked with the 18 Education Institutions that offer four-year teacher education programs to improve institutional management and the quality of university instruction and since 2009 with the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) on quality assurance and capacity building. From 2006-2011HEP was a collaborative effort involving the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Indiana University (IU), and the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). In 2011 USAID felt that HEP achievements were having an impact on higher education and a one year HEP 2 project was awarded to UMASS as the prime implementing partner with a sub-award to Indiana University for English, Science and Math programming.