African countries like all other developing ones have placed priority on the enhancement of education by making it a right and ensuring its implementation among others through universal primary education. Moreover, there has been a move to improve the management of education by devolving certain powers to the school level. Noticeable in this trend is a shift from autocratic models of decision making by few people to collective decision making and team work. Different members of school communities became involved in decision making regarding teaching and learning and other school activities. Teachers are also involved in decision making at higher levels, that is, in districts and provinces through their professional associations. Examples of decisions on policies and other issues that teachers are involved include classroom discipline policies; selecting learning materials and structuring learning activities, decisions on course offerings; school discipline and promotion policies; how student time is scheduled; class size and selection and recruitment of teachers. This desktop study therefore sought to review literature that talk to the significance of participatory decision-making to justify the adoption of such a model by the country under study.

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