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This framework assist educational planners to assess the quality of data collected about education.

This article provides an outline of the concept of quality assurance (QA), the types of QA, and which industries QA applies 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...

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 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 paper outlines a digital platform ecosystem approach to Education Management Information System sustainability and innovation. The focus is on strengthening the resilience of nationwide...

This instrument can be used to assess the systems used for data collection in the EMIS, as well as human resource capacity to collect and manage educational data.

This manual has been designed to help countries to conduct Data Quality Assessment (DQA) for specific education administrative routine data systems (commonly referred to as “EMIS”).

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...