The literacy rate in Indonesia is still declining due to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing Indonesia to rank low among all countries. Various policies implemented by the government have been carried out, one of which is the Kampus Mengajar program. The Kampus Mengajar program is one of the programs from the Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Indonesia, which collaborates with various institutions, including private entities that participate in the target schools. This research discusses the determination of intervention strategies for collaboration in the Kampus Mengajar program in realizing impactful literacy improvement. The drafting process uses the theory of collaborative governance with the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) model. Each stakeholder who becomes a respondent has the authority to choose priorities deemed important in establishing collaboration for the implementation of the Kampus Mengajar program to achieve literacy improvement in Indonesia. The results of this study indicate that, in collaboration for literacy improvement, stakeholders determine that building trust and commitment is the main priority in the collaboration. In addition, strategies for collaboration with both the government and the private sector have also been developed for literacy improvement. The Kampus Mengajar program has demonstrated consistent improvements in literacy learning across its successive implementations. The strategy designed in this research is expected to be used as a guideline for the collaborative-based literacy improvement process that can be implemented in every region. © 2025 The authors. This article is published by IIETA and is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license