Work with us
Partner with the Institute for Social Dialogue on training and capacity building in the communities where your organisation operates.
What we can do together
Free courses, turned into real skills.
Every Academy course is free to every learner. Partners fund what turns free content into capability in their areas: facilitated sessions, venues and devices, local languages, workplace delivery and reporting.
Community training sessions
Facilitated workshops in community halls and other neutral venues, where residents, workers and officials work through the courses together.
Your workforce
Employees and contractors take the same free courses as the community, on their phones or in workplace sessions.
In local languages
Courses in the languages spoken in your communities, with narration recorded by South African voices.
Impact reporting
Clear reports on how many people started and finished, in combined, anonymous figures.
Ways to partner
Choose the reach that suits you.
Costs are agreed with each partner once we understand the area and the people to reach.
Site Partner
One operation or project
Community training sessions for its host and labour-sending communities and its workforce.
District Partner
Several companies in one district
Shared community training, with groups drawn from several companies' areas, and a district impact report.
Founding Partner
Two companies only
Named acknowledgement, the first community training sessions, a seat on the Advisory Forum on reach and logistics, and site impact reports.
Funded places
Development funders and foundations
Sessions for communities that have no company sponsor.
How it works
Four steps from first contact to results.
Tell us
Send the short form below with the area and the kind of training you have in mind.
We meet
ISD meets your team to understand the area, the people to reach and the languages they speak.
We agree a plan
Together we settle the sessions, venues, languages, timing and costs.
We deliver and report
ISD runs the learning and reports back on how it went.
Fair to everyone at the table.
Partners are named publicly on every training programme they fund, with what they paid for. They never approve, edit or remove course content, and they see only combined, anonymous figures. An employer may see its own employees' completion status only, and employees are told this before they enrol.
ISD training is not consultation, and training records may never be presented as consultation with, or consent from, any community. Read the full Neutrality Charter.
Start the conversation
Tell us about your area.
We reply from info@isd.org.za. You are also welcome to email us directly.