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 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 for policy frameworks. In addition EMIS supports the ministry of education and culture to establish targets and objectives for their strategies, as well as helping them to monitor progress towards achieving them at the national level. However, on the downside it would appear that links between information systems and planning are not so strong at other levels of the education, such Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). Similarly, EMIS plays a limited role in supporting the planning process at the provincial level due to lack of funds and access to data at the local level. EMIS also helps educational planners understand that improvements in education quality were limited during the implementation of first ESSP. For instance, some indicators suggest that enrolment expansion may have occurred at the expense of quality. This happened despite some initiatives to address quality such as teacher training initiatives and curriculum development in primary education. Some progress during first ESSP was also made in the implementation of the broader strategy of public sector reform in the education sector, addressing the three themes of decentralization, improved management and administrative structures, and the strengthening of capacity at all levels.