Assessment of capacity and performance of decentralized EMIS activities in developing countries

Education Management Information System means to gather statistics by following people, models, methods, procedures, processes, rules and regulations with the emerging information technology to provide comprehensive, integrated, relevant, reliable, unambiguous and timely data to education leaders, decisions makers, planners and managers, to perform their responsibilities accurately and efficiently. Numbers of countries in the world have decentralized their EMIS systems so as to transfer and manage all EMIS activities from high level to low level in the best interest of the organization. But in various developing countries, it is still poor in terms of collection, analysis and production of data, generating its outputs and dissemination to develop better education policies. Work of one district do not complete without completion of the work of other district, which ultimately results delays in overall EMIS activities. This paper emphasizes on the capacity and performance of the different EMIS activities, necessary and mandatory for any efficient decentralized EMIS system by assessing, examining and identifying the deficiencies in them.