Role of Coordinators in Promoting Sustainable Adult Education Programmes to Eliminate Illiteracy in Dar es Salaam Region - Tanzania

The purpose of this paper was to study the role of coordinators in promoting sustainable Adult Education Programmes to eliminate adult illiteracy in the Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania. Methodologically, the paper employed a qualitative approach, which allied with case study design and had a sample size of 20 respondents who were adult learners, coordinators and facilitators. The study found that coordinators of adult education play an important role in ensuring acute education and taking care of adult learners through proper supervision, and technological innovation to eradicate the illiteracy rate for adults in Tanzania. The study further unveils that coordinators encourage and enhance learners’ academic progress through guidance and counselling services. Moreover, the findings illustrate that the assistance of the coordinators in different centres, such as guidance, counselling, and proper advising, helps students to reach their goals. This makes them become ambassadors who are used to inviting others as a result of increasing the number of students in adult learning education. It is concluded that adult education is essential for human development since it builds a clear understanding, and creates innovation, enhancing the knowledge and skills capacity of reaching everybody in any city, communities, and individuals, which is passed on to the next generation. The study recommends that the Tanzanian government invest more in adult education programs to enhance proper implementation. Moreover, Efforts should be made to initiate a participatory process between the central government and coordinators who lag to promote innovations in adult education, such that transfer of technical skills, training, motivation and cooperation would be encouraged.