ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the Aga Khan Foundation-Tanzania (AKF-T)'s Dar-esSalaam Primary Schools Project (DPSP), based on the full-term external evaluation of the project. The DPSP has introduced an innovative incentive grant to stimulate and encourage participation and full implementation of project training. The project was conceived following an analysis of local primary education provision by AKF-T, carried out using its own funds between July 1994 and June 1995. The Government of Tanzania has provided explicit objectives for primary school education. The Dar-es-Salaam Primary Schools Project is one of the collaborative ventures between the Tanzanian government and its partners that address problems inhibiting effective learning at the primary-school level. Teacher motivation has been further eroded by lack of resources at school level. The project had data showing estimates of the performance of the schools on the two principal dimensions of the project's interventions: management and core subject teaching.
