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Ammon News - Minister of Education, Azmi Mahafazah, Ambassador of the European Union to Jordan, Maria Hadjitheodosiou, and UNESCO Representative to Jordan, Min Jeong Kim on Wednesday launched the technical support project for the ministry's Open-Source Education Management Information System (OpenEMIS) to promote evidence-based decision-making.

Through a contribution of €1 million provided by European Union, Ministry of Education, EU and UNESCO joined forces to support implementation of OpenEMIS policy launched last June. This partnership focuses on developing OpenEMIS to improve data quality, accuracy and use, including figures on refugees, according to a ministry statement.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Mahafazah lauded the ministry's "high" partnership level with EU and UNESCO, valuing constant support to the ministry , which contributes to developing Jordan's educational process.

He also pointed to the need to build user capacities of OpenEMIS system at the school, educational directorates and ministry to employ data in the decision-making process.

On its goals, he noted the system provides online technical support to address problems and observations that are being monitored on its services.

Mahafazah highlighted the ministry's keenness to build capabilities of the ministry's staff to maintain and run the system services, as well as supporting and developing tools to enter, update and check data to serve decision-makers at all administrative levels.

The ministry's plan, he noted, aims to include all the Kingdom's schools, which reach about 7,400.

This newly-launched system is operated on cloud computing to ensure "efficient" performance, "speedy" access and integration with e-government services, he said.