Organization Overview

Education is key to making South Africa a winning nation. BRIDGE is a non-profit organisation that drives collaboration and co-operation among stakeholders in education to increase their collective impact on the system. We do this through convening communities of practice and sharing knowledge, working practices and resources to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the country.

Background & History

BRIDGE was started in 2009 and is a registered non-profit organisation. BRIDGE came about because of the realisation that a critical part of the problem in education in South Africa is that stakeholders do not sufficiently share, adopt and implement what works. Pockets of successful practice, operating in silos, have consequently failed to improve the education system in an impactful, lasting and sustained manner.

The idea of collaboration is the foundation of BRIDGE’s intervention, which ensures the maximising of collective effort and the decreasing of duplication and competition in key focus areas in education.

Management Team

Vuyiswa Ncontsa - CEO

Newsroom

http://www.bridge.org.za/news-media/

Philosophy & Culture

BRIDGE’s methodology is based on our Theory of Change, which in turn is linked to a set of generic outcomes for our work. The following diagram illustrates these relationships.

The BRIDGE outcomes can be seen at work in some of the results of BRIDGE’s intervention:

• Fewer resources are wasted and there is a reduction in duplication;
• There is a quicker uptake of effective solutions and fewer isolated duplicated efforts;
• Effective practice is spread more widely in the system;
• More innovations are created to address education problems; and
• There is a stronger linkage between policy and practice whereby government adopts programmes or adjusts existing programmes and new policies are created/ or old policies are amended for the better.

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