Participants of the implementers call 16.09.2020: Kristine/AeHIN, Siddharth/SwissTPH, Nirmal/Implementation .. /Bluesquare, George/Implementation Cameroon, Saurav & Konstanze/openIMIS coordination desk
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Part I: Strengthened/enhanced community
1. How would you define strengthened/enhanced community? (what characteristics/features)
Make the community more inclusive and inter-connected – with regards to existing as well as new community members
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Additionally invite/involve francophone countries (increase implementation)
involve local operators and NGOs working in social protection, not just ministry/government level - How to support the inclusion of user organizations (eg. SSF, HIB)?
Strong ownership and driving product development
Community should drive product definition and development (functionality, features), increased ownership among community members
High relevance and visibility, connected to latest agenda
position openIMIS community/product in COVID-19 context: openIMIS as lab management - track vaccine delivery
2. How would you define ‘strengthened/enhanced community’ when linking this objective also to the two other objectives – enhanced product and increased implementations?
Community feedback and guidance to product development
User feedback for developers as stated above on usability of software and requirements/customization that is relevant to take into master version (What needs to be in the master-version vs stay in country specific implementations?)
Community to support/increase country implementations
e.g. country case Cameroon:
How can local schemes (like BEPHA) benefit from the openIMIS community of practice?
How can new schemes get support? what support?
Need for financial/technical support to implement the tool ‘in the field’
Capacity building to strengthen community in these support roles:
Develop skills locally (regionally?) - act as a support structure for the various implementations
3. What can you do to strengthen/enhance the community?
AeHIN, regional hub
Regional promotion and capacity building via
webinars: AeHIN hour
Disseminating info: mailing lists, social media accounts
Regional level capacity building programme
Regional instances
Customised demos through virtual openIMIS lab
Bring in medical student networks from AeHIN to bring in the medical knowledge
Implementers - country implementations (e.g. Cameroon, Nepal ..)
Knowledge/experiences from country implementations.
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SwissTPH
Facilitate discussions on …
On-the-ground support and training for country implementations
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Bluesquare
Facilitate discussions on usability and requirements, …
Finalize the architecture transition and make advantages of modular structure “visible” (testimonials of developers on advantages/gains for users and implementers)
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4. With regards to the upcoming 5th anniversary (in 2021) what community features/activities would you highlight (to appeal to others)?
finalised new modular architecture of openIMIS – promote advantages/gains for users/implementers
organise virtual conference (format) – with plenaries in which implementers demonstrate various use cases; create links with government agencies
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5. To strengthen the community in terms of outreach (new community members/partners) who should openIMIS approach – why (with what objective!)?
Academia (as stated above)
To bring in medical know-how
to provide feedback on usability, requirements
to discuss it in wider conceptual context of health/social protection that opens access to new use cases
To promote openIMIS tool to students who can later on promote it to potential implementing organisations
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Local implementing organisations and NGOs that are deeply rooted in social protection delivery
Contribute insight into requirements for openIMIS customisation to serve new use cases
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Francophone connections
TA providers - Acadys, CHAI, CIDR ..
attractive features for this target group:
French interface and guiding docs, peer-learning between implementers (*challenge of connecting knowledge pools - EN-FR)
ILO
mediation to policy maker level in SP context (recommend openIMIS as a software solution when providing policy advice)
extensive country presence
entrance to wider SP schemes
support requirements definition
clarify role/mandate in the context of the openIMIS Steering Group
WHO (strengthening existing collaboration)
entry points have to be clearly defined - focus health financing team (openIMIS presentation scheduled for Dec 2020), digital health
6. What capacity building measures can support you / other community members to strengthen/enhance the community?
On-the-job training for developers and implementers to strengthen their maintenance/customization capacities on openIMIS to apply their knowledge and skills in case of further modifications of the original scheme or implement openIMIS for other schemes
Regional capacity building measures e.g. via webinars, facilitating peer-learning between implementers at different stages of software customising
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