ABOUT EMIS PEER REVIEW IN UGANDA

In November 2011, the Technical Committee met in Kampala to launch the AU EMIS initiative in the East African Region. It worked closely with ADEA and the African Union’s Education Observatory (IPED) and Member States. One of its activities was the 2012 assessment of EMIS status in EAC Member states; followed by the AU Outlook on education Assessment for the EAC member states (2014) which confirmed earlier findings on inconsistencies of data and prevalence of data blanks (i.e. data gaps particularly on quality and higher education) on education sector within member states.

The EMIS Peer Review exercise adopted a collaborative approach which involved Peer Review Team led by ADEA WGEMPS and the Ministry of Education and Sports EMIS Technical team. Peer Review exercise used the following methodologies; Review of Documents; Meetings with Key Education Stakeholders; Key informant Interviews; Focus Group Discussions and Field Visits.

The EMIS Peer Review process commenced in 2012 with EAC Partner States producing an EMIS Norms and Standards Assessment Framework document. This was followed by a pilot of the framework and validation in 2013.  As a preparatory activity for EMIS Peer review for Uganda, in 2016, MoES was requested to undertake a self-assessment using the EAC EMIS Norms and Standards Assessment Framework two weeks prior to the arrival of the main peer review team.  This was followed by review and discussion of the national team self-assessment reports.

Its upon this background that EMIS taskforce was constituted to:

• Study the current Education Information requirements;
• Study the current EMIS to identify its capacity and gaps;
• Make feasible and sustainable recommendations and strategies to improve data production and management in the sector, and;
• Explore internal linkages and synergies that could be created for purposes of ensuring quality data production and management

As a result of this taskforce committee, a number of interventions has been undertaken of which some are still ongoing. These include:

• Redevelopment and re-engineering of EMIS -being undertaken by MoES in collaboration with MoICT & NG-ongoing
• Development of EMIS policy-ongoing
• Development of education master list of all institutions in Uganda undertaken by MoES in collaboration with UBOS-ongoing

Note: For more information on this Contact – MSE division