What is the CIF?
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The openIMIS initiative aspires to make the openIMIS software, designed for the management of health financing and social protection instruments, available and accessible to as many users as possible. In order to facilitate the improved use of openIMIS among various scheme operators, thereby bringing efficiency in social (health) protection schemes, the longtime supporters of openIMIS (German and Swiss development cooperation agencies, BMZ and SDC) have established a mechanism to allow resources to be made available for getting started with openIMIS implementations. This mechanism is the openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund (CIF), and is envisioned to remove the barriers for the adoption of openIMIS. When stakeholders implementing health and other social protection schemes, search for an appropriate digital tool for managing their schemes, they find openIMIS as a suitable solution, but are confronted with a barrier to successfully get started: funds for initial deployment. The openIMIS CIF, hopes to lower this barrier and help potential implementers get started with the software. |
Objectives of the openIMIS CIF
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If you are a scheme operator who feels that openIMIS would be able to support and improve efficiencies in the management of the defined operating procedures of your scheme, the openIMIS CIF could support you in getting started with an implementation! If you need more information about the various types of schemes currently using openIMIS, check out our implementation overview.
The support from the CIF is not limited to government based (public) scheme operators, and non-governmental scheme operators are also encouraged to apply. But, please note that the target beneficiary population and the potential for scale up will play a role in deciding the support offered from the CIF.
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