The Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute (ATVI) is a coeducational vocational school in Kabul, Afghanistan that provides a comprehensive educational experience for Afghan students. ATVI prepares its graduates for roles in key sectors of: agriculture/horticulture, construction, information and communications technology (ICT), vehicle maintenance, and business administration. ATVI is a model public/private partnership between a U.S. company, which provided the initial requirement of $1.8 million to build and start the school, and the Ministry of Education, which has donated land through a 10-year lease. ATVI began operations in April 2007 and is being managed entirely by Afghan citizens.

ATVI strives to educate students not just from Kabul and the other major Afghan cities but also from rural provinces in all areas of the country. In addition, special efforts are made to recruit female applicants, specifically for ICT, construction, business management and agriculture/horticulture.

The Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute is designed to support the people of Afghanistan as they strive to become more productive members of their nation's economy. The development plan for this Institute addresses the critical shortfall in skills – meaning, in some areas, the supply of highly skilled technical talent is currently being filled by foreign labor or simply not at all. These skill sets have been identified by the Afghanistan Government and by international organizations as essential to future economic development. ATVI's first class completed its one-year program in March 2008 with 453 graduates, and the second class of more than 830 students graduated in May 2009. Female enrollment increased from 11% in ATVI's original class to nearly 30% in 2009. ATVI expects to achieve 50% female enrollment by 2011. The current class includes 1,500 students, as well as an additional 500 students enrolled in the new satellite campus called ATVI East, located in Laghman.

ATVI is unparalleled in scope and purpose because there are currently no other modern, fully-equipped and staffed schools in Afghanistan offering formal technical training at the post-secondary level. The ATVI facility consists of 30 large classrooms, one library, administrative offices, and seven workshops. Dormitories are available for 150 male students and 100 female students from the provinces. Students who apply and are competitively selected from around the country are placed in specific disciplines based on interest and satisfaction of the literacy criteria for those sectors.

The goal of ATVI is eventually to become self-sustaining, supported financially by the labor of skilled ATVI students who have been out-placed to the companies that need them. The successful operation of each ATVI location will be of great benefit to the country, as an increasingly skilled Afghan labor force will be readily available for work in both domestic and foreign businesses and will be working actively to rebuild Afghanistan.