The KIX EMIS Peer Review of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe, coordinated by the KIX Africa 19 hub at the African Union’s Institute of Education for Development, is scheduled to take place from the 24th to the 28th of July, 2023. This event will bring together EMIS officers and education planners from Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to review the national assessment drafted by the Ministry’s Planning/EMIS unit in Zimbabwe, using the revised KIX EMIS framework that KIX country representatives developed in 2021 in the KIX Data Challenge community of practice.
This meeting will provide a peer learning platform for KIX Africa 19 partner countries to develop supporting evidence and exchange knowledge on dealing with common challenges in EMIS. Participants will engage with critical producers and consumers of data in the Ministry and in the local education group. The KIX 19 focal points will review the national assessment drafted by the Ministry’s Planning/EMIS unit in Zimbabwe using the revised KIX framework developed in 2021. A key objective of this event is ensuring that the knowledge and information on how to deal with common challenges related to EMIS are shared across partner countries throughout the KIX Africa 19 region.
The KIX Data Challenge has provided a series of learning and capacity-building events with Directors of Planning and EMIS staff at Ministries of Education in KIX Africa 19 countries to exchange knowledge on challenges, lessons learnt and strategies for improving practices in education management information systems needed for sector-wide improvements in the delivery of education and training. Part of this strategy directly addressed a predominant need expressed by countries in the KIX needs assessment in May 2021, focused on understanding international best practices on data quality and enabling policy methodology and resourcing conditions. Over 18 member states jointly refined and reviewed the framework through various virtual engagements to accommodate new norms and standards on sector-wide policy, learner unit record systems, data storage protocols, new technology platform integration and dashboards, data warehousing, disaster recovery, integration of Internally Displaced Persons/Refugee data, learning assessment data integration, and indicators for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 and the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA), among others.
Through EMIS, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) in Zimbabwe administers data collection, processing, storage and dissemination of information for policy making and ensuring monitoring of the Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP). The upcoming peer review in Zimbabwe will allow countries to exchange lessons from their fruitful experiences and help other countries tackle their educational data challenges based on other countries’ lessons.
