Kenya: Joint School-Community Approach for Education of the Marginalized Children

Improving the quality of education in rural areas is a crucial yet challenging endeavor across the world. In a vast majority of low-income countries, rural areas face an array of development challenges such as lack of access to electricity, mobile networks, decent housing and healthcare facilities which have implications on the quality of education. This research was conducted to explore major challenges facing rural schools as well as models which hold promise for improving these schools at scale. Findings from the study show that community-driven approaches which integrate professional development of teachers and school leaders with strong systems of accountability hold promise in improving quality of rural schools.