System to Administer Attendance in Somali Schools

With support from RIL Somalia, the Digital Attendance Application (DAA) has been scaled to Somalia. DAA is an application developed by UNICEF and students at the University of Nairobi’s C4D Lab who later formed Sisitech, a Nairobi-based global software company. DAA tracks student attendance quickly, safely, and efficiently to support learning and school re-entry, thus providing insight on out-of-school children and dropouts. RIL Somalia and World Vision worked with Sisitech to pilot the DAA in the Puntland, to keep children in school, learning, and in a supportive environment.

The DAA has an interest from the Somali government and other partners to adopt and improve attendance tracking. Additionally, the Ministry of Education would like to have the DAA integrated into the Education Management Information System being developed.
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