To ignite and promote the potential of school leadership in improving quality of education in Africa, the government of Rwanda is collaborating with VVOB – education for development, to set up an African Centre for School Leadership (ACSL). The Centre will support governments and governmental agencies in the education sector to build supportive school leadership systems with the objective of improving teaching and in turn learning outcomes. To lay the foundations for the Centre, this working paper explores and reviews empirical research on school leadership in Africa that will inform the subsequent implementation phase of the Centre.
