About the platform

A national MEAL backbone for Somali education

The National MEAL System is the Ministry of Education, Culture & Higher Education's single source of truth for how the education sector is performing โ€” connecting every school, district and Federal Member State to one transparent, accountable evidence base.

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Our mandate

Deliver reliable, timely and disaggregated evidence to guide education policy, planning and resource allocation across Somalia's federal system.

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Accountability

Give every learner, parent and community a channel to be heard โ€” and a guarantee of a tracked, timely response.

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Learning

Turn monitoring and evaluation data into lessons, policy briefs and better decisions โ€” a continuous improvement loop.

How it works

Evidence flows up, transparency flows out

Four connected stages turn a single school visit into national intelligence and public accountability.

1

Collect

Field officers submit monitoring, observation and assessment forms โ€” online or offline โ€” with GPS and photo evidence.

2

Validate

District and State MOE administrators review, flag anomalies and approve submissions against data-quality rules.

3

Analyse

Approved data rolls up into national dashboards, indicators and the intervention map in real time.

4

Act & publish

Insights inform policy; headline results and accountability statistics are published to the public portal.

By the numbers

What the system covers today

Schools in the register
9,412
across 8 states
Active field users
2,140
MEAL, EMIS & QA officers
Indicators tracked
64
6 national domains
Evaluations archived
118
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