This article links to a series of guides and reports about ICT infrastructure and connectivity initiatives in low- and middle-income countries.
An Education Management Information System (EMIS) is a comprehensive system that bring together people, process, and technology to provide timely, cost effective, and user appropriate information to...
This guide comprises two main sections: a 'Buyer’s Guide' that refers to the standards of functionality a system ought to have, and a 'User’s Guide' that refers to how to make better use of an EMIS...
The Digital Education project of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) seeks to improve the efficiency of education management by examining how the daily processes it involves are carried out...
This publication highlights good practices and lessons learned in the implementation of EMIS strengthening initiatives, as presented by countries and organizations that participated in the 2018 EMIS...
This report builds on a 2015 World Bank report that assessed education management information systems (EMIS) in the state of Maryland. That report uncovered a successful system, and this one expands...
This paper provides an overview of the various data sets pertaining to education in South Africa that are informing or could inform policy making in education. The paper serves as an inventory for...
Reviews of four EQUIP2 Associate Awards implemented in Uganda, Malawi (2), and Zambia from 2003 to the present. Each reviewed project focused on education
management information systems (EMIS) or had...
Donors and planners often have unrealistic expectations about what can be achieved in a short time period and underestimate the challenges facing EMIS. Donors have often tended to assume that EMIS...
This paper provides a brief review of the status of EMIS development in the Latin American and Caribbean Region. It includes: (i) a brief history of EMIS development efforts in the region; (ii) an...
This is the fifth volume of the "Education Policies and Strategies" series launched by the Division of Educational Policies and Strategies of UNESCO. It a compendium of good professional practices...
This compendium summarizes the presentation and debates of participants in the Study Visit Programme on Improving Education Planning and Management through the Use of lCTs, held in Seoul, the Republic...
This paper outlines a digital platform ecosystem approach to Education Management Information System sustainability and innovation. The focus is on strengthening the resilience of nationwide...
Lessons Learned from World Bank Education Management Information System Operations provides an overview of the World Bank’s portfolio in the area of Education Management Information Systems (EMISs)...
At state level, a systematic approach to educational planning, supported by Education Management Information System (EMIS), is now developing with a clearer role for the federal government in the...
"In 1999, Zambia’s Ministry of Education (MOE) launched its sector reform program, the Basic Education Sub-Sector Investment Program (BESSIP) for the period 1999–2006.
The main objectives for BESSIP...
Case study: The tension between the leadership of technology and technology as a means of school improvement are still issues of debate. Researchers have argued that education management technology...
Case study: This research work presents an Education Management Information System designed for the Department of Institutional Planning and Development at the University of Colima; this system allows...
This report highlights one of the most critical enablers of education performance for South Africa: the use of data to track and accelerate the achievement of improvement goals across the school...
This thesis is an exploratory, interpretive case study of Zambia’s first year of implementing a mobile to web EMIS, designed to overcome the many infrastructural challenges present in Zambia. The case...
Evaluation of a project undertaken to establish user needs and set up an EMIS in Northern Sudan
This report aims to identify relative strengths and weaknesses in Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) across the Caribbean region, as well as recommendations for improvement, by collating...
"The paper first outlines how new international priorities for education — especially the focus on learning outcomes and learning across life in formal, non-formal and informal contexts — have placed...
The purpose of this evaluation is to provide an independent assessment of the outcomes of the global UNESCO OpenEMIS initiative and the collaboration between UNESCO and Community Systems Foundation...
This Operational Guide to Using EMIS to Monitor SDG 4 provides further operational guidance on how to implement data collection from the viewpoint of existing global commitments related to Sustainable...
This paper draws from the working paper, “Re-imagining the future of Education Management Information Systems” drafted by the Section of Education Policy in the Division for Policies and Lifelong...
In 2019, UNESCO and its partners conducted six country case studies in Chad, Ethiopia, Palestine, South Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic and Uganda to examine existing EMIS and recurring challenges...
As a follow-up to the 2018 International Conference on EMIS, UNESCO hosted a three-day webinar on re-imagining the futures of Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) from May 26 to 28, 2021...
This policy brief presents the challenges and opportunities that Central Asian countries face with regard to EMIS. It also highlights what it takes to build an effective EMIS ecosystem, what UNESCO is...
The International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education was organized by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese National Commission for...
"Short reference sheet for the SABER approach: Information is a key ingredient in an effective education system. Effective education policymaking in a country requires information about the inputs...
"One of the measures of an efficient education management information system (EMIS) is the extent to which returns from school censuses and surveys are accurate, timely and up-to-date. This is...
In some fragile states, where the education sector has faced direct attack, physical monitoring of development programs becomes a hugely complex and dangerous task. In this context, Afghanistan is an...
"Knowledge Pack (KP): EMIS 2.0 is part of a broader EdTech
Program Framework and should always be considered an element of the solution that includes adequate software, incentives, policies and...
"Information about Open EMIS: OpenEMIS is an open source
Education Management Information System. OpenEMIS has modules to collect, manage, analyze and monitor education data at all levels of the...
"Building and sustaining a data system are complicated tasks, and
despite significant investments many countries struggle to have a functional Education Management and Information System (EMIS). Data...
