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UIS Support to Countries in SSA

UIS Support to Countries in SSA. UIS Regional Workshop for Anglophone Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 4-8, 2012. UIS Support to Countries. UIS Field presence in SSA Capacity Building activities Data Plans Education Finance DQAF Support to EMIS Training materials. 2.

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UIS Support to Countries in SSA

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  1. UIS Support to Countries in SSA UIS Regional Workshop for Anglophone Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 4-8, 2012

  2. UIS Support to Countries • UIS Field presence in SSA • Capacity Building activities • Data Plans • Education Finance • DQAF • Support to EMIS • Training materials 2

  3. UIS field presence (before UNESCO Reform) 3

  4. UIS field presence in SSA 4

  5. UIS field presence in SSA • The NESIS (1991) – ADEA WGEMPS • SCB Programme (2002 – 2006) • UIS presence has grown significantly since 2009 with the creation of statistical advisory posts • Support through UNESCO Offices • Repositioning modelled on the UNESCO Reform • End of projects direct implementation • Funding by UIS / UNESCO (CapEFA and regular program) / Other partners • Responsibility by country for support to international reporting • Support from the whole team for capacity building 5

  6. UIS Capacity Building activities • Support to international reporting • Site visits to support UIS questionnaires reporting (56 missions conducted by UIS field staff in 2012) • Data plans • Financial data • ISCED • Regional module • Diagnoses using DQAF • Development of Action Plans • Support to EMIS • Support Education Sector Analysis (with Pole de Dakar) • Support to UNESCO’s programs (Teachers Diagnostics, Cap EFA) • Development of training materials 6

  7. Data Plan: UIS capacity building on international reporting • Training session (1-2 weeks) in situ for a team of staff concerned with UIS reporting • Objectives: • Improve the understanding and Facilitate the completion of questionnaires • Generate buy-in and support of the Ministry staff • Contribute to the improvement of education data collection at the national level • Focusing on sustainability as it provides a country specific documentation 7

  8. Data Plans conducted 8

  9. Support to Education Finance data 9

  10. DQAF: History & Context • Initially (2002) developed by the IMF to assess the quality of macro-economic statistical series • In 2004, the World Bank and UIS modified it for use in the evaluation of education data • For several years, UIS has engaged in diagnostic assessments of national education statistics systems using the DQAF methodology - in Latin American and in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) between 2005 and 2006 • Between 2008 and 2011, within the UNESCO support to the AU Second Decade of Education action plan, SADC and other RECs, 17 DQAF were conducted in SSA • Inconsistencies in the structure of the instrument and in the relevance of some items as well as the need for standard scoring guide lines and other methodological issues have been identified • After stabilisation and development of documentation, the DQAF is now a UIS Official Instrument 10

  11. DQAF: Six data quality dimensions 11

  12. DQAF: 21 sub dimensions 12

  13. DQAF: 21 sub dimensions 13

  14. DQAF: Elements of scoring • The scoring is done for each data producing unit part of the exercise and for each of the 140 practices of the framework • Practice not observed (scored 1) • Practice largely not observed (scored 2) • Practice largely observed (scored 3) • Practice observed (scored 4) • Not applicable • During The fact finding mission, the group of experts will discuss each of the 140 practices of the DQAF and will score it using the dedicated Matrix • Whenever is possible, recommendations will be provided to suggest possible improvements 14

  15. DQAF Conducted 17

  16. EMIS Action Plans 18

  17. Support to EMIS: Operational mode • Data analysis • Through consultants or other UNESCO teams • Data quality (EMIS) • Increasing number of requests from countries for UIS EMIS tools • We work with a group of consultants that we know and have trained • Customization • statistical reports design and automation • Trainings in use and administration • Deployment • Maintenance • UIS keeps the scientific direction and ensures quality process • Development of Action Plans • Support to data needs definition • Provide free software • Monitoring of the system evolution 19

  18. Countries using UIS EMIS tools 20

  19. Development of training modules • DQAF SADC • Education finance statistics • Data Analysis • Methodology for data reconciliation of different data sources • Methodology for data cleaning • Education data qualityassessment • Publication release and dissemination strategy • School records management system • Data collection processes • PartnershipswithRegional training Institutions • ENSEA & EASTC • Editorial committee • Trainings 21

  20. Thank you Marc Bernal, UIS Regional Advisor m.bernal@unesco.org UNESCO Dakar

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