The Ministry of Education is in discussion with Innovations for Poverty Action to roll out an Education Evidence Hub, which will harness the power of data in improving policy action on education matters. This move will empower policymakers with the ability to analyze and produce relevant data with actionable information on solving numerous challenges facing the education sector.
“This marks a critical improvement in the consolidation, analysis, and synthesis of information that will allow for informed decisions on education matters,” explained Mr. Bartholomew Lumbasi, who is in charge of Policy, Partnership, and East African Affairs. In his address to the workshop, which included county directors of education and other education officials from the Ministry of Education, Lumbasi pointed out that the proposed education hub will link and be interfaced to the KEMIS system as a reliable and comprehensive source of data for strategic planning.
According to Ginger Golub, the country director of IPA Kenya, the Hub presents a new and innovative way of policymaking in a sense that it institutionalizes the manner through which education policies that are cost-effective can be identified and evaluated. Also in attendance at the workshop were key bodies in the education system, such as the Teachers Service Commission and the Kenya National Examinations Council.