Public Impact Record

What outcomes can be attributed to Rakesh Rajani?

Rakesh Rajani

Tanzania-based civil society leader who founded Twaweza East Africa and Uwezo and was founding Executive Director of HakiElimu.

Independently verifiedCurrent answer

3 documented outcomes: 2 self-reported, 1 independently verified.

Latest source 2019Reviewed 26 Oct 20267 sources

Uwezo citizen-led learning assessment (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)

Self-reported

More than 340,000 children assessed across three countries in the 2012 round

Role
Founder; Uwezo housed and managed by Twaweza
Reported by
Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) descriptive profile, drawing on Uwezo/Twaweza documents (Nov 2014)

Sources 1

Effect of Uwezo test-result information on parents' and citizens' action (Kenya)

Independently verified

Randomised study of 550 households in 26 villages in rural Kenya found information on children's test results 'had no discernible impact on either private or collective action'

Role
Founder of Uwezo (programme evaluated)
Reported by
Lieberman, Posner and Tsai, World Development vol. 60 (2014), peer-reviewed; EGAP research brief identifies the intervention as Uwezo's assessment and outreach

Sources 2 3

School grants and teacher incentives experiment in Tanzania (Twaweza-funded)

Self-reported

Randomised experiment in 350 schools: grants alone no effect on test scores after two years; incentives some positive effect; combination significant positive effects greater than the sum of each

Role
Head of Twaweza (funder) and co-author of the study
Reported by
Mbiti, Muralidharan, Romero, Schipper, Manda and Rajani, Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(3), 2019 (peer-reviewed; Rajani co-author)

Sources 4 5

Sources

  1. SecondaryAssessGEMs No. 7: UwezoAustralian Council for Educational Research · Nov 2014
  2. PrimaryDoes Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence from an Education Intervention in Rural Kenya (World Development 60:69-83)IDEAS/RePEc (Elsevier) · 2014
  3. SecondaryBrief 19: Generating Citizen ActivismEvidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
  4. PrimaryInputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (QJE 134(3):1627-1673)IDEAS/RePEc (Oxford University Press) · 2019
  5. PrimaryInputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (NBER Working Paper 24876)National Bureau of Economic Research · 2018

Record history

26 Oct 2026 Record published and reviewed.

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