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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Choosing and Using an EMIS Guidelines for Data Management and Functionality in Education Management Information Systems (EMIS)
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...
A Digital Platform Ecosystem Approach to Education Management Information System Strengthening Background paper prepared for the Global Education Monitoring Report
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...
The role of education management information systems in supporting progress towards SDG 4: recent trends and international experiences
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...
Capacity building for educational reform (in: Education Governance in Action: Lessons from Case Studies)
An overview of key data sets in education in South Africa
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...
Information tools for the preparation and monitoring of education plans
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...
Education Management Information System: What Is It and Why Do We Not Have More of It?
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...
Education Management Information System (EMIS): Integrated Data and Information Systems and Their Implications in Educational Management
Successful management of today’s education systems requires effective policymaking and system monitoring through data and information. To this end, countries around the world have invested significant...
Re-imagining the future education management information systems, beyond head counts: leveraging data systems to support inclusive and effective learning for all
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...
Data for Learning Building a Smart Education Data System
"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...
Education Management Information Systems and Children with Disabilities
"The purpose of this booklet and the accompanying webinar is to assist UNICEF staff and partners to incorporate information relevant for monitoring and evaluating the inclusiveness of school systems...
NFE-MIS handbook: developing a sub-national non-formal education management information system
The Education for All (EFA) goals (adopted in 2000) reflect the growing recognition that non-formal education (NFE) is no longer the peripheral domain of education for "marginalised" groups. Rather...
Lessons Learned from World Bank Education Management Information System Operations: Portfolio Review, 1998-2014
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)...
EMIS 2.0: Learning and Accountability System Architecture (LASA)
"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...
Analysis of Indicators Used in USAID Education Projects in Crisis and Conflict Environments
"The following document provides an analysis of the indicators used in Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Plans (PMEPs) from 25 USAID Education projects implemented in 16 countries between 2007 and...
A National Strategy for the Development of Education Statistics (NSDES) Guidelines for country-level design of the NSDES
The purpose of these Guidelines is to accompany country-level stakeholders through a process of preparing their NSDES and medium-term capacity development program plan for education statistics...
SABER: What matters most for education management information systems - a framework paper
The main objective of this paper is to outline what matters most for an effective education management information system (EMIS). It presents the conceptual background and operational tools for the...
Operational Guide to using EMIS to monitor SDG4
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...
Educational planning and management in a world with AIDS: IIEP training modules
With the unrelenting spread of HIV, the AIDS epidemic has increasingly become a significant problem for the education sector. In the worst affected countries of East and Southern Africa...
Re-orienting Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning
"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...