American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world, whose overriding goal is to use the best science available to bring the most effective ideas and approaches to enhancing everyday life. The International Development Division seeks to enhance the capacity of developing countries to improve their quality of life through ensuring children's equitable access to all levels of education; improving the quality and relevance of education; and empowering individuals, communities, and institutions as agents of social and behavioral change.

In pursuit of these objectives, AIR has worked in more than 80 countries over the past three decades, strengthening national education systems, increasing the involvement of communities in local schools, improving the quality of teaching and learning, developing new techniques for assessing student performance, increasing access for both girls and boys, accelerating educational reform, improving information systems, slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS through behavior change, and reducing the incidence of child labor.

As well as being a key technical partner of Deworm the World, AIR has committed to provide office space and administrative and IT support to the DtW secretariat over three years.

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