Deploy · Partnership Models

Partnerships Designed Around Your Goals.

Every institution starts from a different place. Some need access to one solution. Others want an operating partner or the capability to build and run a system themselves. We shape the partnership around the outcome, not the other way around.

Discuss a Partnership

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Concept · Adults in conversation around a table.

01Model 1 · Solution Deployment

Bring an Indaba Learning Solution to Your Audience.

Make a defined Indaba product or pathway accessible to employees, families, practitioners or a service network. Agree the audience, delivery channel, support level and practical measures of success.

Illustrative use

An employer making caregiver development accessible to its workforce; an NGO offering learning resources to parents.

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Guidance, within reach.

02Model 2 · Managed Deployment

Deliver with a Trusted Operating Partner.

Work with Indaba to plan and execute a structured training or capability programme, including implementation coordination, training support and monitoring arrangements.

Illustrative use

A regional network strengthening teacher practice across its centres.

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Concept · Adults learning together around shared tables.

03Model 3 · Capability Infrastructure

Build Capacity That Stays.

Go beyond direct training by installing local capability: facilitators, a local node, management routines, quality systems, digital support and transferable implementation knowledge that stay when the first contract ends.

Illustrative use

A government department or NGO establishing an internal early childhood development (ECD) professional-development capability.

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Concept · A demonstration, watched closely.

04Model 4 · System Partnership

Design the Long-Term System Together.

Establish a multi-year framework bringing together people, digital guidance, learning pathways, standards and shared governance. Sequence investment to test assumptions, build local capacity and expand when evidence warrants.

Illustrative use

National or multi-region capability-system development with public and institutional stakeholders.

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Concept · The child at the centre of a connected system.

05Who we partner with

Collaboration Across Sectors.

  • Government and public systems

    Departments and municipalities strengthening early learning, family support or care.

  • NGOs and civil society

    Organisations with community reach that want stronger, lasting practice.

  • Employers and the care sector

    Agencies and employers investing in caregivers and working parents.

  • ECD and school networks

    Centre and school groups raising quality across many sites.

  • Development institutions and funding consortia

    Funders designing programmes that must outlast their funding cycle.

Sample fit and project types, not a list of current partners. Partner names appear only with their agreement.

06What a good partnership includes

Clear Goals. Shared Accountability.

Every Indaba partnership is agreed in writing before work begins. It sets out:

  • Measurable objectives
  • Named governance and decision rights
  • Operational responsibilities
  • Intellectual property and data rights
  • Quality safeguards
  • Budget and reporting cadence
  • Local knowledge transfer
  • Exit and transition provisions
  • Child safety and privacy throughout

07Engagement process

Begin with a Conversation.

  1. 01

    Introduction

    An introductory discussion and a first view of fit.

  2. 02

    Discovery

    Needs mapping with the people closest to the work.

  3. 03

    Scope

    Scope, budget and responsibilities agreed.

  4. 04

    Agreement

    A pilot or initial deployment agreement.

  5. 05

    Review

    Review, and phased expansion where justified.

Giving, investing or an academic partnership? See where each enquiry goes.

Let’s begin

Let’s Design the Right Partnership.

Tell us who you serve and what you hope to improve. We will help identify an appropriate starting point.

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