BIG RESULTS NOW IN TANZANIA
Education is one of eight priority areas under Tanzania’s “Big Results Now” initiative, alongside energy, agriculture, water, transport, health, business environment and resource mobilization. Tanzania is consulting with Malaysian policymakers on this initiative, given Malaysia’s wide-ranging and well-recognized development successes.
Tanzania has made huge progress over the past decade in getting children into school, but learning outcomes have been declining as schools cope with larger numbers of children. To urgently address this, Tanzania, with support from the World Bank and other donors, is adopting a new approach to solving development challenges in education under the “Big Results Now in Education” program.The program is expected to fast track quality improvements in primary and secondary education to ensure that students are not just going to school but actually learning. the country has made strong progress in enrolling millions more children in primary and secondary schools. But a difficult task ahead is reforming the primary and secondary education systems to ensure that real learning takes place in every classroom.
The Tanzanian government aims to urgently address these quality issues and improve student learning outcomes as quickly and efficiently as possible.First, to establish a clear direction for reform, the government and donors signed an Education Reform Compact which commits to raising education quality by strengthening accountability, introducing the right incentives, and conducting meaningful assessments within the primary and secondary education systems.
