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Abstract
Among the various challenges that the Ugandan government is facing to improve educational
outcomes and achieve Universal Primary Education (UPE) in the country, is the necessity to improve
the “quality of education”. Service delivery in education in Uganda has been proven to suffer, in great
part, from the “weakness of accountability mechanisms between school administrators, teachers and
the communities”. In order to assist national decision-makers in solving these issues, a team of local
researchers set out to test and assess the effectiveness of two types of community-based monitoring
interventions in improving general educational outcomes, using methods of randomized controlled
trials (RCTs) on a sample of 100 rural public primary schools in the country. This paper presents the
main findings from this experimental impact evaluation project.