Coastal and fisheries governance
Survey of Education and Training Services on Cross-Sector Collaboration
The purpose of this survey is to provide an initial overview of both the current and potential future supply of education and training services available in South Africa on issues related to cross-sector collaboration and partnership. Its overarching aim is to facilitate the design and implementation of support interventions to improve capacity among relevant organisations for more effective cross sector-partnerships.
The report was commissioned by the ‘Partnering with Governments’ programme of the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), for the purpose of presentation at a workshop hosted by the IBLF and the Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ – the German development aid agency) on 6 December 2007 in Pretoria, South Africa. This was motivated by the outcomes of a workshop convened on 4 October 2007 in Centurion, South Africa, which was attended by about 120 participants from public, private, civil society, and academic sectors. The participants agreed that cross-sector partnerships hold much potential for improved service delivery and other important sustainable development objectives, but a crucial impediment remains in the form of lacking skills and capacity among organisations involved in such partnerships.
Two overlapping methodological approaches were used in this survey. The first was the administration of a basic questionnaire with five overarching questions. The sample was a group of 60 potential informants, of which 20 are staff members in tertiary education institutions, mostly business schools. The questionnaire was administered via email, though a small number of telephone or face-to-face interviews were also held. The second component of the survey was a review of websites of tertiary education institutions and other relevant organisations.
