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Quality Assurance (QA)
This article provides an outline of the concept of quality assurance (QA), the types of QA, and which industries QA applies to.
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...
SADC EMIS Norms and Standards Peer Review Assessment Report - Mozambique
This slide presentation follows peer review of Mozambique's EMIS, with the purpose of: Using peer review, validate results of the national EMIS assessment, provide recommendations for improvement and...
Ed-Data Quality Assessment Framework(Ed-DQAF) to Evaluate Administrative Routine Data Systems: Manual for the Conduct of an Evaluation by a National Technical Team
Data collection instruments
To be used during the evidence gathering phase
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...
Regional Capacity Building Strategy for EMIS for the East African Community (EAC)
This report has been produced on behalf of the East Africa Community (EAC) by a restricted technical committee made up of EMIS experts from the EAC Partner States and a team from the ADEA Working...
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...
Education management information systems: A guide to education project design, and implementation based on experiences from EQUIP2 projects in Malawi, Uganda and Zambia
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...
Rethinking education management information systems: lessons from and options for less developed countries
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...
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...
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...
Education Management Information System: A Short Case Study of Ghana. Working Paper No.4, 2006
The Education Management Information System (EMIS) design in Ghana is an example of best practice for decentralized planning and budgeting, supporting reforms at various levels but challenges remain...
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...
SADC EMIS Norms and Standards Peer Review Assessment Report Botswana
A set of regional EMIS Norms and Standards were collaboratively developed by SADC member states and adopted in 2010. Subsequently, SADC, with the assistance of ADEA’s Working Group on Education...
Education Management Information System: A Short Case Study of Mozambique Working Paper No.3 2006
The role played by Education Management Information System (EMIS) in educational planning in Mozambique is mixed. At the national level the initial evidence suggests that EMIS helps generate targets...
Education management information system: A short case study of Nigeria (English). InfoDev working paper ; no. 5
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...
Education Management Information System Program (EMIS)and Related Activities: Final Program Report
"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...
Success by Numbers How using Data can Unlock the Potential of South Africa's R-12 Public School System
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...
Designing an Education Management Information System A case study on the introduction of a digital, mobile-to-web Education Management Information System in Zambia
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...
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...
Basic Education Sector Analysis Report - Uganda
"As the target year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) approaches, non-traditional forms of aid modalities such as SWAps and general budget support are...
Development of an Education Management Information System (EMIS) in Northern Sudan
Evaluation of a project undertaken to establish user needs and set up an EMIS in Northern Sudan
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...
EQUIP2 Lessons Learned in Education Education Management Information Systems A Guide to EducationProject Design, and Implementation based on Experiences from EQUIP2 Projects Malawi, Uganda, and Zambia
The authors undertook reviews from November 2010 to January 2011 of four EQUIP2 Associate Awards implemented in Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia from 2003 to 2011. Each reviewed project focused on education...
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...
Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: South Sudan
The ‘Strengthening Education Management and Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crises’ initiative responds to the need for accurate and relevant education data...
Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: Chad
The ‘Strengthening Education management and Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crises’ initiative responds to the need for accurate and relevant education data...
Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: Uganda
The ‘Strengthening Education management and Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crises’ initiative responds to the need for accurate and relevant education data...
Strengthening Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crisis: country case study: Ethopia
The "Strengthening Education management and Information Systems (EMIS) and Data for Increased Resilience to Crises" initiative responds to the need for accurate and relevant education data and...
Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): a guide for young managers
The objective of this training manual is to lay down the scope, structure, responsibilities of a management in an EMIS office in the ministry of education in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is intended for new...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...