DQAF mission Mozambique 2009

Latest revision as of 13:21, 15 October 2012

Background

1. Assessment conducted in June 2009, over 7 working days.
2. UIS met with:
   • Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC)
   • EMIS Unit
   • Provincial Directorate of Maputo
   • National Statistical Institute
   • 1 province: Maputo
   • 1 school
   • UNICEF Mozambique
3. Report shared with MoEC in September 2009.
4. Second draft version incorporates feedback.
5. Final version to be completed in October 2009.

Positives

1. There is a governance structure in place to support development of statistical capabilities (e.g. National Statistical System).
2. Sufficient resources allocated for hardware: workstations connected to high speed LAN, servers well administered.
3. Statistical products are sign posted with MoEC logo.
4. In general, data are recorded in accordance with existing international standards and instruments well designed.
5. Financial resources allocated to statistical data collection sufficient.

Areas to strengthen

1. Little or no mechanisms in place for triangulation among datasets.
2. In general, staff numbers insufficient to cope with demands / workload and, in addition, retention is generally low.
3. Documentation for main statistical system is lacking.
4. Resources for development of software not sufficient.
5. Systematize use of school registers.

Recommendations

1. Pre-requisites of quality: develop human resources and recruit additional staff (statisticians) at national level.
2. Integrity: develop a scientific approach to production and use of statistics.
3. Methodological soundness: develop EMIS capacity development plan and M&E framework.
4. Accuracy and reliability: create a Master List of schools and limit authority at district level to modify this.
5. Serviceability: promote preliminary publications on education statistics.

References

1. ↑ A Synthesis of Seven Country Assessments March 2010 - UNESCO SADC

See also

• Mozambique country page