Department of Information and ASEAN Affairs

1. Objectives

The objective of this sub-program is to ensure that the technology used or developed by MOEYS will be appropriate to address the needs to update the ministry’s administration and flexible with its decentralization policy. Another objective is to promote and conduct monitoring on the standardization of information and computers used in the ministry.

2. Responding to ESP Strategies and Policies

Policy 3: Institutional and Capacity Development for Educational Staff for Decentralization

¯  Improve the use of information technology to update and decentralize administration and inspection systems, which can reach school level.

          Policy action:

• Security, stability and standardization of the updating and integration of MIS such as EMIS, HRMIS and FMIS and the general information system of MOEYS assured in 2010.
• Computer-based school management is operational in 2010.
• Standardization and electronic communication with MOEYS at national, sub-national and school levels strengthened in 2011.

3. Indicators and Targets

• MOEYS’s central departments, POEs and DOEs are able to communicate with one another through electronic means in 2011.
• New database for EMIS, HRMIS and FMIS will be linked and considered as secure and stable in 2011.
• Management software properly piloted and addressing the needs of schools in Cambodia is operational in 2010.
• All MOEYS’s departments, POEs, DOEs, schools and HEIs use Open Document Format (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) at the end of 2010.

4. Main Programs and Activities

4.1) Recurrent programs (Program based budgeting​​​​​ and others budgeting)

• Provide training to officials at central, provincial and district levels on how to use school management software and productivity software developed by MOEYS.

4.2) Capital programs

Technical Cooperation:

• MIS strategy development
• Check MIS updating process to ensure that technical aspects of security, standardization and decentralization are incorporated.
• Prepare and pilot school management by using computer-based automation software and data exchange software among schools and MOEYS’s database.

5. Program Management and Monitoring

Department of Information and ASEAN Affairs is responsible for organizing and monitoring these activities and coordinating with development partners. Performance evaluation will be done for this area as pointed out in the master plan and action plan on Information and Communication Technology.

6. Financing Plan (million Riels)