Monitoring and Evaluation

Information Systems ( MEIS)

Presentation for the IDEAS Global Assembly

April 14, 2011 Amman - Jordan

Maram Barqawi Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Jordan Education Initiative

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Why?

Management Information System MIS:

According to Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane Price Laudon intheir book Management Information Systems:

An information system is "a set of procedures that collects (or retrieves), processes, stores, and disseminates information to support decision making and control.

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Management Information System

Information

People

Technology

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features:

1. Repository for indicators (DATA)

2. Monitoring the progress of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

3. Analyzing results, enabling data mining, finding hidden patterns and correlations

Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features:

4. Integration with Statistical Tools

5. Producing Analytical Reports, tables, Charts, Maps and presentations (data visualization)

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features:

7. Increase the accessibility of data and promote data dissemination, offline and online

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Available options :

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Develop your own system

• Costly (Contracting, In-house)

• Take time

• Add the features you want

• Update it on request

• Needs training

Buy ready one

• Very costly (rent, buy)

• Loaded with features, doesn't meet your needs

• Needs training

• Good support

Use free one

• No cost

• Adequate features

• Needs training

• Update and support are not guaranteed

8 Goals

21 Targets

60 indicators

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Successful international experience in tracking human development indicators

Monitoring the progress of the Millennium Development Goals

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

DevInfo Global Initiative

DevInfo is a powerful database system endorsed by the United Nations Development Group UNDG for monitoring human development. It is a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners.

It can be deployed on desktops and on the web and is distributed royalty-freeIt helps in the collation and presentation of data in the form of tables, graphs and maps

More than 130 countries had developed national data systems based on DevInfo, most of them published their system online.

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

www.devinfo.org .

Recommendations:

1. To manage your information efficiently in timely manner you

need to consider MIS.

2. M&E professionals needs to stay up to date with Technology

3. MIS supposed to help and its not necessary to be complicated

4. Building capacities is essential for sustainable management of

information.

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

Thank you

Maram Barqawi mbarqawi@hotmail.com

Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)