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.

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.

The final webinar of the 2025 NASCEE-TICZA series presented the Prototyping methodology to be applied in the next stage of the Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA) project. The JET team shared the main elements of the five-year TICZA journey and explored the Prototyping model for the proof-of-concept testing soon to be launched.

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.

Accurate data is critical for efficient planning and evidence-based decision making in education: for system-level policy makers and officials, for school leaders and for classroom educators. NASCEE partners with the New Leaders Foundation (NLF) and the Department of Education (DBE) to share information about the Data Driven Districts (DDD) Dashboard. The Dashboard provides real-time, visualised learner data from SA-SAMS and was featured in four recent NASCEE regional events (in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu Natal and Cape Town), giving stakeholders opportunities to reflect on how data can improve their own interventions as well as foster stronger partnerships with government and across the sector.

This presentation gives an overview of the Data-Driven Districts (DDD) initiative of the Department of Education and the role of New Leaders Foundation. The presentation shares elements of the Data Driven District Dashboard, showing how effective implementation of the DDD provides education officials with quality education data and insights that drive informed decision making and improved learner outcomes nationwide.

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. TICZA is pioneering an Extended Student Teacher Internship (ESTI) model — bringing together NGOs, HEIs, funders, unions, and government to create real change. Using the Collective Impact approach, TICZA has learned hard-won lessons on shared measurement, backbone roles, and building a common agenda. Key takeaway? Systems change is messy, slow, and worth it.