Improving micro-planning in education through a geographical information system: studies on Ethiopia and Palestine

A growing number of Ministries of Education are relying on a Geographical Information System (GIS) to strengthen their management information system, but its full potential to improve educational planning and management at central and at decentralized levels has not yet been exploited. The two studies contained in this volume relate the experiences of two projects, whose main objective was the integration of a Geographical Information System into the planning process by the educational administration, in Ethiopia and in Palestine respectively.