Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems ( MEIS) Presentation for the IDEAS Global Assembly - April 14, 2011 Amman - Jordan By: Maram Barqawi mbarqawi@hotmail.com Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

1. 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

2. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Why?

3. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Management Information System MIS: According to Kenneth C. Laudon and Jane Price Laudon in their 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.

4. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS)

5. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features: Repository for indicators (DATA) Monitoring the progress of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Analyzing results, enabling data mining, finding hidden patterns and correlations

6. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features: Integration with Statistical Tools Producing Analytical Reports, tables, Charts, Maps and presentations(data visualization)

7. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Deploying MIS to improve M&E efficiency, (MEIS) features: Increase the accessibility of data and promote data dissemination, offline and online

8. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Available options :

9. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Successful international experience in tracking human development indicators Monitoring the progress of the Millennium Development Goals

10. 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-free It helps in the collation and presentation of data in the form of tables, graphs and maps

11. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) More than 130 countries had developed national data systems based on DevInfo, most of them published their system online. www.devinfo.org .

12. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Recommendations: To manage your information efficiently in timely manner you need to consider MIS. M&E professionals needs to stay up to date with Technology MIS supposed to help and its not necessary to be complicated Building capacities is essential for sustainable management of information.

13. Monitoring and Evaluation Information Systems (MEIS) Thank you Maram Barqawi mbarqawi@hotmail.com