About: Rakesh Rajani

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Rakesh Rajani (born c. 1966) is a Tanzanian civil society leader. He has established and led key social initiatives in the evolution of education in Tanzania and East Africa starting in 1991 including hakielimu.org, especially as an advocate for young people through education and recently, with twaweza.org and uwezo.net, open government and ICT. In addition he helped set up and served as the first chairman of Policy Forum, a network of over 100 NGOs in Tanzania involved in helping 'policies work for people'. Rajani is considered a thought leader for much International Development work, particularly related to child rights, education, democracy and open government in East Africa and globally.

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