HakiElimu is a non-profit civil society organisation. Registered as a company limited by guarantee, and does not have a share capital. HakiElimu is registered under the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 212, Laws of Tanzania). HakiElimu was founded in 2001 by a group of 13 Tanzanians who had formed a clear and longstanding commitment to transform public education for all children, having noted that education in Tanzania was in a mess, and that the many attempts to reform it had appeared to go nowhere. It seemed clear to this group that the local education had not improved much because technocratic solutions were being applied to essentially political problems, and that the volumes of technically sound documents produced by policy reform officials were not quite relevant because they were not taking into account the politics of institutional change in Tanzania. With this in mind, the founders of HakiElimu sought to create an organisation to enable the ordinary citizens to actively get involved and make a difference in the education sector.
