Draft Policies and Guidelines For the Selection of An EMIS Solution

BACKGROUND

The OECS Education Reform Unit (OERU) has deferred the decision on whether or not
General Pedagogical Information (GPI) the software used in the Education Management
Information System (EMIS) pilot project should be rolled out to the entire education in
St. Lucia and to other education systems in the sub-region. This deferment followed
careful consideration of the report on the evaluation of the EMIS pilot project and the
stage at which this evaluation was done, that is, prior to the generation of key school and
national reports.

In meantime, the OERU has decided to draft, through this consultancy, policies and
guidelines for the procurement of EMIS solutions in order to increase the likelihood of
success of future EMIS implementations that are undertaken by ministries of education
(MOEs) in isolation and to promote the need for compatibility among EMIS solutions
selected by various MOEs.