NASCEE Round Up | Strengthening Collaboration Across South Africa’s Education Ecosystem

The latest edition of the NASCEE Round Up highlights the people, partnerships, and initiatives driving collective impact across South Africa’s education sector. From the launch of NED Connect and the Click Learning Capacity Building Impact Report to the growing NASCEE HR Professional Learning Community, this edition explores how collaboration, leadership development, and shared learning are strengthening organisations and improving education outcomes nationwide.

Canva AI for Nonprofits Webinar

Jun 17, 2026 from 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Join Canva’s global virtual event, AI for Nonprofits, and explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping communication, storytelling, and impact across the nonprofit sector. This free online session brings together nonprofit professionals and changemakers from around the world to engage with practical tools, emerging trends, and new possibilities for mission-driven organisations.

Collaboration in Action Webinar Series

NASCEE, in partnership with IPASA, hosted the Collaboration in Action webinar series to showcase collaborative education initiatives driving systems change in South Africa. Featuring the MP-R Programme, Fundisa for Change KIC2 Project, and JET Education Services case studies. The series brought together funders, NGOs, government, and education partners to share lessons on partnership, sustainability, and collective impact across the education sector.

Tuesdays in the Trenches (TTT)

Tuesdays in the Trenches (TTT) is NASCEE’s webinar series that brings together education leaders, NGOs, social enterprises, and sector partners to share practical insights, reflect on challenges, and explore collaborative solutions for improving education outcomes in South Africa. The series creates a trusted space for peer learning, sector dialogue, and collective action across the education ecosystem.

NASCEE ROUND UP

We are pleased to share the first edition of the NASCEE Round Up newsletter.

Driving Collaboration and Impact: NASCEE Leadership Forum Results

The NASCEE Leadership Forum is a high-impact platform that strengthens collaboration, leadership, and system-wide change across South Africa’s education non-profit sector. This report highlights how trusted relationships built through the Forum are translating into measurable outcomes, including improved leadership capacity, new partnerships, and tangible impact on thousands of learners.

Strengthening Education NGOs: Inside NASCEE’s Capacity-Building Impact

This report highlights how NASCEE’s 2024–2025 capacity-building programmes are strengthening education non-profits across South Africa. Through case studies of OLICO Maths Education, Click Learning, and Edutech Institute, it demonstrates how targeted training improves leadership, operational systems, collaboration, and ultimately learner outcomes.

TICZA is a collective impact partnership, convened by JET Education Services and involving government, NGO implementers, higher education institutions (HEIs), funders, SACE and teacher unions. Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students studying through distance learning while based in schools are supported by various NGO Implementing Partners, in what TICZA calls extended student teacher internships (ESTIs) as an enrichment of the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) element of teacher education. TICZA aims to show how and under what conditions ESTIs can provide high quality student teacher training, and how the model can be institutionalised within the broader ITE system.

The TICZA Common Competency Framework (CCF) is an output of the Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA). TICZA Webinar 2 hosted by NASCEE explored the purpose of the CCF, its key features, and how it can be applied by TICZA partners – and, potentially, by other stakeholders in initial teacher education and professional development.

NASCEE’s recent regional event brought funders and education NGOs together to increase mutual understanding by sharing thoughts on funder roles, grant-making strategies and NGO-funder relationships.

NASCEE partners with the New Leaders Foundation (NLF) and the Department of Education (DBE) to share information about the Data Driven Districts (DDD) Dashboard, a key component of the DBE's Data Driven Districts Initiative featured in four recent NASCEE events (March to May, in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal and Cape Town).

On 15 May 2025, NASCEE and TICZA hosted the first in a webinar series exploring what it really takes to shift systems in teacher education.