The Beyond Advocacy Fund supports the South African component of the project, which aims to foster collaboration between five to 10 corporates, to design and implement company-specific interventions to demonstrate how these values can be embedded within existing company operations, and supported by partnerships between government and civil society. Barclays and the University of Stellenbosch are key partners in the implementation of this initiative.
2. Providing Support to the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT):
NECT is a joint initiative of the government, trade unions and the private sector to collaboratively improve education in seven districts in SA. The Beyond Advocacy Fund support assists NECT to extend training to district officials and change agents in the learning programmes that are focused on foundation phase numeracy and literacy. Support includes the production of teacher materials and in-school support to teachers by change agents.
3. Support of a range of critical research interventions that are focused on facilitating the addressing of energy and water infrastructure challenges that are being faced by the country. The research outputs will help guide further engagements with stakeholders towards enhancing the future structure and functioning of these sectors.