The Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) has launched an online Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) portal for collecting, analysing, and sharing real time data among technical and vocational institutions in the region.
The portal will also be used by various stakeholders including policy and decision makers, and development partners for informed data driven decision making. It is expected to improve the availability of quality and relevance of data collected from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutes in the region.
Availability of accurate and reliable data is one of the major challenges facing higher education institutions in East Africa. For instance, the Demographics of African Faculty in the East African Community (DAF-EAC) study undertaken by IUCEA together with a consortium of partners published in 2023, established that there were challenges in accessing quality and reliable data on higher education in the region. According to the study, there is inadequate documentation and lack of centralized data collection and sharing systems within countries in the region. The M&E Portal launched by IUCEA is therefore a significant step in addressing the challenge of quality and reliable data in the region.