What Do Tanzanian Parents Want from Primary Schools—and What Can Be Done about It?

In this insight, the team summarises recent RISE research, conducted as part of Twaweza’s Sauti za Wananchi survey, that seeks to address parental values and satisfaction levels. We use a ‘discrete choice’ experiment—a series of hypothetical enrollment decisions in which parents were asked to express their preferences between alternative pairs of schools—to understand the extent to which parents value proximity, infrastructure, teacher-pupil ratios, and learning outcomes, in the primary schools to which they have access.