SIGE Master Plan

The master plan for MENFP's information systems: the target architecture, the flows between central and departmental levels, and the governance that has to exist for either to work. Read with the implementation strategy and the collection strategy, it is the design half of Haiti's education management information system.

Its governance chapter is the part that determines whether the rest happens, and it names three bodies with distinct functions: a National Strategic Committee, a National Steering Committee and the National Technical Team. Below them, technical structures are to sit between the ministry's business directorates and the information systems unit, working on procedures, specifications and application development to automate each directorate's requests. Responsibility is assigned rather than left collective: each technical director is made responsible for the validity and deployment of their own unit's applications.

The plan frames information as a management discipline rather than as an IT function, arguing from the history of management science that systematic use of information is what produced service quality and competitive advantage elsewhere. It also states a budget principle that most such plans avoid, that the ministry must allocate a percentage of its national budget to monitoring learning at national level, with completion rates and pass rates named among the indicators, so the measurement function is funded rather than assumed.