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EdTech in Tanzania: A Rapid Scan

SDGs Impacted

EdTech Hub country scans explore factors that enable and hinder the use of technology in education. These factors include the policy or vision for EdTech, institutional capacity, private-sector partnerships, and the digital infrastructure. This report is based primarily on desk research, with quality assurance provided by a country expert. This document discusses Tanzania’s Education Sector Development Plan (2018) key challenges faced in the education sector and provides comprehensive data on the state of education. It identifies several objectives and policy statements. This report describes Tanzania’s national ICT policy and include a brief look at the ICT in education policy.

Impact / Outcome
“equip-t” is one of Tanzania’s initiative in digital education. This Education Quality Improvement Programme focussed on early-grade learning (literacy and numeracy) for primary students. It consists in a website with continuous professional development material and it reached 2.6 million students and 55,000 teachers between 2014–2020.
Funding sources
Public/Private
Key Metrics
Enhance teaching and learning in both formal and non-formal education through ICT
Locations
Africa, Africa, Tanzania
Sector
Education
Intervention lever
Direct government
Operating model
Public-private partnership
Target populations
Children, Youth
Year published
30 June 2020

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