Thanks to this collaboration, the National Access Consortium Western Cape (NACWC) can better deliver trainings on workforce development to its members, businesses and industries, and nongovernmental organizations. During visits to the United States, South African partners observed train-the-trainer programs, studied the process of establishing a workforce development program, and gave presentations about higher education in South Africa to faculty, staff, and students at Highline Community College and the Eastern Iowa Community College District.

The partners also designed a model for a Centre for Extended Learning that will enable the further education and training and higher education sectors in the Western Cape to work together to deliver relevant workplace job training and higher education curricula to meet workforce demands of public and private industry. NACWC continued to develop the model with Ford Foundation funds.