Twaweza Immersion 2017
Every year the whole of Twaweza closes up shop and the entire organization spends time immersed in communities in one of our three countries of operation. In 2016 we tried something different for our annual immersion
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Uwezo goes to schools
The idea is to test slightly higher level skills at schools to test the capabilities of the Uwezo data collection infrastructure and to understand teachers’ expectations of their students’ performance and share actual results with them.
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Schools, funds and learning
The proportion of Ugandans who have heard of the Capitation Grant (a government policy of funding allocated to public schools, per student per year) increased from 10% in January 2014 to 35% in March 2015. It is plausible that a Twaweza-supported mass media initiative in partnership with Vision Group contributed to the increase.
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What do Tanzanians know and think about Twaweza?
In 2015 particularly, Twaweza’s election poll received very wide coverage – but while the media noise can seem very loud in urban areas, we wondered how much do ordinary citizens know about us, the campaigns that we implement, and what do they think of them?
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