ITA’s focus from its inception in 2000 has been to cultivate and work with like-minded organizations across Pakistan and globally. ITA’s position on alliances in embedded in the following:

Alliances help leverage and accelerate change and export of good ideas and positive practices. Alliances help in advocacy and policy influence.
Alliances help in forming learning corridors for legitimizing knowledge creation and expanding discourse across borders.
Alliances help in ‘border crossings’ at multiple levels.     
Alliances help in strengthening identity formations rather than their dilution

ITA has thus actively sought alliance building crafting many alliances through its own efforts.

  School Improvement Network Pakistan (SINP)

SINP works under the umbrella of the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA). SINP was established in 2001 as an institutional response to needs of educators. Head teachers, NGOs and supervisors, who wanted to be part of a professional support group, launched the idea of SINP during the concluding session of a six-day workshop on Managing School Improvement in 2001. SINP believes that working as a network of partnerships adds value to the work of each organization involved. One way of doing this is to facilitate the effective exchange of information and skills on school improvement.

Goals

To transform and strengthen learning institutions through standard setting and support for quality education practices.

Location:

All provinces of Pakistan and with chapters in Rahim Yar Khan, Lahore, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad, Jhang and  Multan districts for Punjab, Quetta and Kech districts in Balochistan. Karachi in Sindh, Muzaffarabad in AJK.

Target Groups:

200 members, all educators across public and non-elite private sectors

SINP objectives

To:

1. Share good practices in promoting quality education with partners in public and private sectors focusing on the following areas of teaching and learning:

• Curriculum development & management.
• Subject based training e.g. Language(Urdu & English),Mathematics, Science, Islamiyat, and Social Studies.
• Site based professional development.
• School management and leadership training for teachers, senior teachers and supervisors.
• Development of monitoring tools for school improvement.
• Effective use of Information Technology in education.
• Giving support to children with special needs.

• Undertake exchange visits for professional development.
• Promote the collection, analysis, dissemination and exchange of information
• Offer technical assistance in different aspects of school improvement.
• Provide, at the request of SINP members, advisory services.
• Organize reflective dialogues on school improvement and policy options.
• Set up decentralized resource centers in support of SINP

Key activities

1. Support and services to ITA's Programs
Since its inception, ITA's core programs are being supported by SINP in terms of Quality Inputs such as trainings, material /tools development, site based support for the effective implementation of Whole School Improvement. 

2. Outreach:

• Strengthening of Chapters
• Dissemination of tools/materials /information
• Newsletters
• Memberships
• Trainings
• Coordination/facilitation