Financing adult and non-formal education centres in Tanzania: A case of Tunduru district council
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2019
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Mzumbe University
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This study examined the ways on how Adult and Non-Formal Education centres are financed in Tunduru District Council in Tanzania. Objectives of this study were to examine sources of funds; to explore the methods of allocating funds; and to examine the challenges of fund allocation for ANFE centres. Five (5) wards and 49 participants were involved in the study. The study employed qualitative approach and applied case study design. Participants were selected using purposive and convenience non-probability sampling techniques. Data were collected using interview, focus group discussion and review of documents. Content analysis technique was applied in analysing data gathered from the field. Findings indicate that financing ANFE centres in Tunduru DC were mostly done by the adult learners’ themselves through their contributions from individual income, individual and local volunteers, and very little support from the government. The research revealed that there were no proper methods of fund allocation for ANFE centres because the government disbursed very low and irregular funds to run these centres. Often the little funds supported were programme-based from the donors and local volunteers. The study also uncovered that, ANFE centres were faced with multiple challenges; these include extreme underfunding and lowly paid or not paid at all honoraria for adult education facilitators. Other challenges include dependency in untrained adult and non-formal education facilitators, poor teaching-learning environment, acute shortage of qualified adult education facilitators, lack of motivations among teachers and adult education learners. Several recommendations are made specifically for financing ANFE centres
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A dissertation submitted to the faculty of social sciences in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master Degree of Art in Education (MA-Ed) of the Mzumbe University
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Adult Education, Non-formal education - Tanzania, Workers Education, Community Engagement
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