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Members of the Cape-to-Cape partnership with Kwa-Mpisi residents
Program areas at SA Partners bring together people here and in South Africa to support the work of redressing apartheid's legacy and building the new South Africa. The central focus of our activities is to establish mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships between South Africa and the United States. After six years, SA Partners has begun to formulate a better understanding of two-way partnerships as an important development tool. From our experience, partnerships:
- Support the South African transformation process by building institutional capacity through a transfer of skills and knowledge;
- Provide unique learning opportunities for all partners that broaden understanding, stimulate new thinking, and disseminate successful intervention strategies; and
- Create new networks for ongoing interaction and exchanges.
SA Partners acts as a catalyst in the early stages of project development, by facilitating the initial planning and implementation. As the US and South Africa partner institutions gain experience working together, SA Partners scales back its participation, allowing projects to adapt to the particular needs of the institutional partners.
To date SA Partners has helped start several important partnerships that fall under the following program areas: Partnerships for Healthy Communities, Libraries for South African Schools and Special Projects.
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