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STRUCTURE

THEMES FOR COLLABORATION

NECT channels its efforts into six themes for collective action identified in the National
Education Framework:

Professionalisation of the teaching service.
Supporting courageous leadership.
Improving government capacity to deliver.
Improving the resourcing of education.
Involving parents and communities in education.
Enhancing support for learners and promoting their wellbeing.

TYPE OF INTERVENTION

NECT PURSUES THESE THEMES THROUGH DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERVENTIONS.

01 District-based improvement programmes are the backbone of the NECT, which has prioritised
some of the country’s poorly performing districts for concentrated attention. Districts are close
enough to the grassroots to effect change in individual schools and sufficiently linked to the broader
education system to contribute to systemic change.

02 The NECT also devotes considerable energy to interventions that are intended to have a systemic
impact across the basic education sector.

03 It promotes and supports innovative educational interventions in the belief that change will
not be achieved simply by pursuing the same combination of activities that have delivered limited
results in the past.

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