Nigeria School Attendance Monitoring System

The Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) was a partnership between the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Nigerian Government. The eight and a half-year programme (2008 – 2017) supported six federal and state governments to develop effective planning, financing and delivery systems to improve the quality of schools, teaching and learning.

In support of the project, CGA developed an SMS-based reporting system to monitor teacher and pupil attendance in two states. The system enabled Local Government officials to use smartphones to scan and upload evidence of paper-based enrolment and attendance reports for verification purposes. The data then synced to a public-facing website (www.nsams.org) providing real-time information for stakeholder monitoring.

Output

Development of a pilot Schools Attendance Monitoring System.