in addition limited autonomy disempowers school and local actors and makes it more difficult to hold local players accountable in particular school leaders as they do not have the responsibility to take most of the decisions besides as local actors namely school principals have limited leeway on the operation of schools they have few opportunities to build their capacity to guide and lead school development in such a context the few initiatives such as the regional campuses for technicalprofessional education providing some leeway at the local level merit support indeed teachers elect representatives to codicen and to each individual education council