Informative Reading: Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: Lessons from and Options for Less Developed Countries

Rethinking Education Management Information Systems: Lessons from and Options for Less Developed Countries. Infodev. Online February 2010. Donors have often tended to assume that EMIS outputs would play an important role in helping managers to administer their education system in a more efficient and effective manner, while, governments have assumed that EMIS output would help them identify priority areas for targeting resources and helping them monitoring progress of strategies towards defined objectives. A review of four country cases reveals that this does not always occur and significant problems are often experienced with the operation of EMIS at all levels of the education system, and in the vast majority of instances systems are unsustainable without a considerable amount of donor support. ...

(Ginny notes: Although this report was published in 2006 and thus is a bit dated, it continues to be informative and contain wise advice for anyone working in projects that include creating or supporting educational MIS systems.)