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The Worldwide Women-in-Development (WorldWID) Fellows Program is a one-year international development fellowship for mid-career professionals who can apply their technical skills to U.S. foreign assistance programs and who are interested in increasing their knowledge and capacity to incorporate Gender-and-Development (GAD) issues in their applied work. Funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), WorldWID is managed by theUniversity of Florida in collaboration with Bennett College, The Center for PVO/University Collaboration in Development, and Datex, Inc. WorldWID is for U.S. citizens only.

Applicants for a WorldWID fellowship must demonstrate how their professional and personal skills have prepared them to assist in the implementation of U.S. development assistance programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Russia and the Newly Independent States. WorldWID is especially interested in skills that relate to USAID's strategic areas of concern: economic growth; democracy and governance, including human rights; environment; girls' education; and population, health and nutrition.

The WorldWID Fellowship year consists of a period of training and orientation followed by a placement in a USAID field mission. The program matches applicants' skills with requests from different missions and USAID-funded programs. Fellows then apply their WorldWID experience to their home institutions and associations in the U.S. Participation in this program requires that Fellows receive a Secret Clearance from the United States Government.

WorldWID is funded by USAID,Global Bureau, Office of Women in Development, under a cooperative agreement with the University of Florida.