How does GPE support EMIS? Current investments and future initiatives

• In Event: Strengthening data for better education systems

Proposal

A strategic goal of GPE is to support the development of effective and efficient education systems across its developing country partners (DCPs), helping them to deliver equitable, quality education for all. Supporting better availability and use of data in national sector planning and monitoring, through GPE’s large-scale implementation grants, is an important feature of GPE’s work, as expressed in the GPE 2020 strategy and monitored through its annual results report. Countries receiving GPE grants must demonstrate they either have a robust EMIS or a plan to develop one. More than three-quarters (33) of the 41 country-level education sector program implementation grants (ESPIGs) active in June 2017 contained a component to develop or improve an EMIS. Currently, the GPE Secretariat is in the process of implementing a stocktaking exercise to better understand the specific activities in EMIS funded by its grants, as well as the issues in EMIS identified by their DCPs in education sector plans and analyses.

To address shortcomings in the availability of quality data in DCPs, the GPE Secretariat also recently convened a task force on EMIS with a consortium of international development agencies and jointly sponsored a conference on EMIS with UNESCO in April 2018. GPE is also sponsoring a Data Solutions Roundtable over the next year to leverage the expertise of private, public and multilateral players to address the data challenge. In addition to this work, GPE will address gaps in global goods related to data through investments supported by its knowledge and innovation exchange (KIX) mechanism.

This presentation will address the spectrum of work undertaken by GPE to improve data systems, providing both a descriptive analysis and a reflection on key findings from the Partnership’s engagement in this domain.

Author

• Margaret Irving, Global Partnership for Education