Enrollment and Absence Monitoring Systems Toolkit

This toolkit and options paper is intended to support teams looking to use technology-based systems to track attendance through the steps of assessing needs, identifying stakeholders, evaluating (or developing) systems against international standards, budgeting for and procuring a system, and deploying an attendance and enrollment tracking system (school management information systems). The toolkit has been iteratively developed with several country-based teams, across a range of contexts, with the explicit aim of localizing the decision-making process with those who know the context they are working in best.

The options paper gives a brief overview and evaluation of a number of ‘key’ technology systems suitable for use in lower resource contexts. It is a brief guide, all systems within the paper will continue to be developed and is accurate based on the system in Q1 2021.