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"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 are to increase enrolment rates and improve learning achievement at the primary school level by enhancing ongoing programs and developing
new ones. As a part of BESSIP, the EMIS and Related Activities program began its work in December 2001 to improve the capabilities of the MOE to collect, organize, process, store, share, and disseminate education information for informed planning and management of education at all levels. To do so, the project focused on five tasks: Task 1: Education Management Information System (EMIS); Task 2: Capacity Building; Task 3: Assessment; Task 4: Community Data Collection and Use; Task 5: Monitoring Requirements
Through these tasks, and the collective efforts of project staff and staff of the Ministry of Education, specifically the members of the Directorate of Planning and Information, the project has built the capacity of the MOE to obtain, manage, report, use, and demand
good information for good decision-making. The program has strengthened the existing EMIS platform that provides the MOE at all levels with access to information and enables the MOE to use real data to plan and to project its needs and resource requirements. "