The purpose of this study was to investigate the contributions of TDAIBESO I Project inrnimproving the access and quality of primary education in Tigray Region. Descriptive surveyrnmethod was used to address the objectives of the study. The study was conducted in 25rnprimary schools of eight project woredas and the subject of the study were teachers, headrnteachers, SDAs, educational officials at woreda, zone and region levels, representatives of thernlocal community, and staff members of the project office. The sampling techniques used tornselect the data sources were availability, purposive and random sampling techniques.rnThe instrument used to collect data from teachers, head teachers and SDAs was questionnaire.rnUnstructured interview was also used to collect information that would supplement thernquestionnaire from representatives of the local community, the education officials at woreda,rnzone and region levels and from the members of the project office. Moreover, using a checklist,rnfield observations were made in the sample schools. Various documents and statistical datarnfound at the project office of TDAIBESO and the TREB were also consulted. Qualitative andrnquantitative methods were used to analyse the data. The statistical tools used to analyse thernobtained data were percentage and weighted mean.rnThe results have ~uggested that TDAIBESO I Project's objectives were appropriate forrnalleviating the educational problems of the region that prevailed before its intervention. As arnresult of this, the project was able to mobilize the local community with the limited amount ofrngrant disbursed to the project schools. Accordingly, the local community had, to a considerablernextent, participated in the improvement of the school environment and in the management ofrnschools, which had been sustained even after the termination of the project activities.rnConsequently, the enrolment of students, especially that of girls, had been increased, and thernmotivation of teachers and the quality of leadership of the schools had relatively been improved.rnHowever, the internal efficiency indicators demonstrated that there had been overcrowdedrnclassrooms and shortage of teachers. The dropout and repetition rates also showed anrnincreasing rather than decreasing tendency in contrast to what had been at the beginning of thernintervention period. This signals that the internal efficiency of the project schools had been lowrnwhich might have in turn affected the quality of education. From this it could be deduced that thernobjective of the project vis-a-vis the improvement of educational quality had not been fullyrnrealized . The causes of this might have come as a result of the various problems that had beenrndiscussed in the third chapter of this study. Thus, to alleviate the encountered problems,rnpossible recommendations are forwarded in the fourth chapter of this study .