Dissertation (MA Public Administration)This study aimed at evaluating the retention strategies in retaining teachers of public secondary schools in Tanzania, focusing on Dodoma Municipality. The researcher used focus group discussion combined with questionnaire, interview and documentary review as the means of obtaining data. The sample size was 98 respondents and Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the collected data. Furthermore, descriptive statistics summarized the information from the collected data. From the research findings, the study revealed that high salaries, promotion, good working environment and good policies were the most important factors for retaining the teachers of public secondary schools in Dodoma Municipality. Again, from the research findings, it was revealed that the failure to provide the above mentioned requirements, resulted in poor service delivery, poor students‟ performance and hence failure to meets the intended objectives. Furthermore, it was found that, the employee intentions to remain within an organization was influenced by three major groups of variables which were employee personal characteristics, such as gender, age, position level, the nature of an employee’s current job and adequate working arrangements, including aspects such as salary, the quality of current supervision, opportunities for promotion, available training, and the quality of communication within the organization. Generally, the study recommends that, there must be well designed policies and strategies to retain the teachers in public secondary schools.