The Centre Based approach as adopted and approved by the Rössing Foundation Board of Trustees will come into effect in January 2010, but has been successfully piloted in Omaheke region. The Centre Based Approach simply means that all activities are implemented at the Rössing Foundation Centres and therefore performance measurement is fully under the Foundation's control.

This further implies that the Rössing Foundation works only with schools that are willing to assist or uplift themselves. The highly successful English, Mathematics and Science Centres will therefore become a hub for the development of both teachers and learners.

A small outreach programme however, is run at the Centres focusing directly on what is termed as a "School Leadership and Management Programme". It is known that once the school leadership and management is successful, it automatically escalates to teachers and learners achieving great results with less effort on direct teacher and learner support at school level needed. This approach was applied successfully in Omaheke region and the overall results lifted the Omaheke education performance from the bottom, level thirteen (which is the lowest level of performance) nationally to seventh, to date.

Both Erongo and Oshana regions have adopted this approach and have signed off to implement it during 2010 as partners of the Rössing Foundation.