TEP Centre is Nigeria’s pioneer education partnership consultancy, specialising in research, design, implementation, support and evaluation of education programmes, projects and initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sectors. The rationale for TEP is hinged on the need for more effective partnership mechanisms between and across the public and private sectors in sub-Saharan Africa.At TEP Centre, they believe that education is both a public and private concern and there are roles for each sector in education planning, operation and funding. Well-designed partnerships not only have the ability to leverage the strengths of each sector, but also to provide equitable access to functional and stimulating education to teeming masses of Africans.
Their vision at TEP Centre is to establish radically enhanced education systems by leveraging the strengths of stakeholders for effective and sustainable partnerships. Their mission is to improve overall the overall design, implementation and evaluation of education initiatives through effective, enduring and scalable partnerships.
Some of their key competencies lie in:
> researching, evaluating and contextualizing best practice in education partnerships
> designing and strengthening social responsibility projects of corporate organizations
> enabling evidence-led policy making through rigorous research and effective communications strategies
> advising national and international venture philanthropists
> structuring an array of non-state sector investments in education
> strengthening the capacities of public sector officers, civil society organizations and the private organizations to deliver effective reforms and programs
> ensuring that public-private partnerships in education are meaningful, mutually beneficial and effective
What They Do
TEP Centre is competent in multi-sectoral partnership planning, implementation and evaluation:
Public-private partnerships (such as corporate social responsibility projects aimed at improving the quality of public education). They support Education CSR initiatives of corporate organisations and Foundations or manage those of corporates as an outsourced service. They also act as an independent education management organisation structuring partnerships between the public and the private sectors (corporations, nonprofit foundations and FDI). As an independent and intermediary institution, they direct private funding into (areas of greatest need in) public education in the most effective and accountable ways.
Private-private partnerships such as Business-School partnerships; School-School and Business-Business partnerships).
International partnerships including philanthropy and foreign direct investment to strengthen access, equity or quality in public or private sector education. They facilitate International and regional partnerships aimed at supporting international investment in education sector
