Sierra Leone Teacher Management Information System (TMIS)

The Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has contracted CGA Technologies and partners Fab Inc. to develop a Teachers Management Information System (TMIS) to strengthen teacher management, improve efficiencies and increase transparency and accountability in the teaching service.

The project is part of the Government of Sierra Leone’s ongoing efforts to improve the education system, teaching practices, and learning outcomes under the 2018 Free Quality Secondary Education (FQSE) policy.

Country/Region:	Sierra Leone
Dates/Duration:	2022 - 2024
Funded by:	World Bank
Clients:	Sierra Leone Teaching Service Commission (TSC)

Key Activities

CGA Technologies will design and develop a secure web-based TMIS that will harmonise teacher data, enable timely access to it nationally, and process administrative action. This will directly improve workforce planning and deployment, Teacher Licencing Assessment, recruitment and complaints and arbitration.

Authorised users will be able to view, add and edit teacher data, update individual personnel records and teachers will be able to submit requests and forms against their profile.

A secure AWS server will host a dataset of data disaggregated to individual level to analyse all data points and intersection (e.g. district, sex, age, attendance, qualifications).

Decision-makers will access user-friendly web-based dashboards for management, analysis and summary reports. Public-facing and teacher/ stakeholder-facing summaries will display view-only non-personal data.

Outputs

Once the web-based TMIS and database are developed, CGA will provide extensive and tailored training aimed at building capacity and ownership among all TSC and teaching staff who will interact with it.

Outcome

TSC’s processes in HR management will be less resource intensive, saving staff time, improving the sustainability of the system. This will result in HR requests from teachers nationally being actioned as required by the District staff, decentralising information.

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Expertise

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Team

Hannah Graham

Managing Director

Hannah is CGA's Managing Director who holds over ten years of experience in education, public administration, and the design and...
Muniru Kawa

Muniru Kawa is a professional Records and Information Management expert with over twenty-seven years’ practical experience in working with...
Harry Hayward

Based in Sierra Leone, Harry was research lead for the Out-of-School Children study, leading national research activities, including...
Tobias Murray

Tobias is a systems developer, product manager and analyst based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a focus on designing, developing and...
Sheriff Conteh

Sheriff joined CGA in 2020 and currently works from our Sierra Leone office, where he provides technological support to the implementation...
Alimatu Sesay

Alimatu joined CGA in 2018 as an intern, later becoming a consultant. She currently serves as the Finance and Administration Officer in...
Nancy Makande

Nancy Makande is a Fellow based in CGA’s Sierra Leone office. She joined the team in August 2023. Prior to joining CGA, Nancy worked for...