Enable integrated human development programme implementation. STRATEGY ACTION

Build love and connections for children.

Give every child the benefit of quality early childhood development.

Improve the quality of education.

› Implement programmes that help caregivers to create supportive and developmentally conducive environments.

› Pilot and test social network models that increase the social (and economic) capital of households and caregivers in order to reduce vulnerability.

› Roll out a playgroup programme.

› Commission work to enhance the quality of existing ECD centres and support them to get registered.

› Co-invest in building new ECD centres and transition some playgroup practitioners to ECD practitioners.

› Invest in initiatives that improve school management by building capacity and improving accountability around outcomes.

› Improve foundation-phase literacy and numeracy.

› Implement reading and numeracy accelerator/catch-up programmes.

Create new connections to opportunity for young people.

Build and expand student-to-work linkages.

› Provide access to targeted, relevant information that supports young people to successfully access services and opportunities, including those created by the Trusts.

› Implement a work-readiness programme.

› Invest in initiatives that reduce school dropout, including support for pregnant learners.

› Work with government to establish and strengthen academic pathways for learners exiting school in Grade 9 and to add vocational and technical streams for high school learners.

› Support poorer students to access and complete post-schooling education and training.

› Provide ongoing training for young people to succeed in work experiences or their first job.

› Initiate a process of aligning skills development to industry needs.

Create spaces and practices for integrated programme implementation.

› Guide vision and strategy by convening visioning and planning sessions around specific goals, e.g. ECD.

› Support aligned activities by facilitating dialogue among partners, setting up and supporting working groups.

› Establish shared measurement practices and systems. Manage data collection and use for learning.

Outcome

› At least 100 caregivers are reached through these interventions.

› There is universal access to quality early childhood development.

› Children enter Grade R ready to learn.

› School governance and teaching improves.

› Twenty-five per cent of households with children aged 0–6 regularly read for enjoyment.

› There is a demonstrable improvement in foundation-phase literacy and numeracy scores.

› At least 50 connections are made for young people that are NEET.

› At least 50 young people complete a work-readiness programme.

› School dropout linked to learning difficulties, behaviour issues and teenage pregnancy reduces demonstrably.

› Learners engaged in technical classes within Daniëlskuil High School show improved outcomes.

› The number of learners accessing and completing TVET, college and university increases.

› 100 young people complete industry-aligned skills development programmes.

› A common agenda is defined and the partner’s individual work is increasingly aligned with the initiative’s common agenda.

› Partners increasingly communicate and coordinate their activities towards a common goal.

› Partners understand the value of sharing data and use data to adapt and refine strategies.

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