Fighting Corruption In Education: A Case Study Of Interventions In Low- Income Countries

Improving accountability in Tanzania is an important way in which the government and bilateral donors are looking to fight corruption in the education sector. This paper will present a snapshot of the issue of corruption in education in Tanzania, and an evaluation of the Chukua Hatua grassroots accountability programme through a Theory of Change (TOC) perspective. Chukua Hatua (CH) literally means ‘Take Action’ in Kiswahili. CH pioneered a series of pilot programs in Phase 1 of their intervention. This paper will look at the learnings about one of the educational pilot programs, where a Student Council was elected democratically, by their peers. These students were then trained to question their teachers and administrators in school about issues related to school quality, to bring about change and improvement.