The openIMIS Initiative is happy to announce the first October software release of 2024 – it’s a big one! Thanks to enhanced functionalities developed through the integration of CORE-MIS, openIMIS now supports the main activities in all four phases of the social protection delivery chain (Assess, Enroll, Provide, Manage). Everything from intake and registration to basic targeting and payment of benefits can now be managed using openIMIS.

With this latest release, openIMIS is well on its way to functioning as a full-fledged social registry. It supports the management of individuals, including filtering by key characteristics and enrolment into various programs. We encourage interested developers and implementers to join us as we work to continue to enhance openIMIS’ functionalities as a robust and dynamic social protection information system.

As always, the developers committee has bundled an exciting mix of other updates and additions into this release:

• The merger with the CORE-MIS software from The World Bank has further evolved. openIMIS can now WorldBank has concluded the current project phase. openIMIS has received additional and improved fundtionality to cover the basic processes of a full social protection delivery chain from intake and simple targeting to payout of benefits.

• A new module for Grievance Management was added as a joint contribution from the Gambian UHC Implementation and the CORE-MIS merger project.

• As a spin-off effect from the CORE-MIS migration project, openIMIS was able to increase compliance to the GovStack standard significanly, qualifying openIMIS as an official GovStack building block.

• The team from Nepal has again contributed a number of features back into the main package that proved useful during daily work with the system.

• Many bug fixes and performance improvements were applied based on feedback from the field.Improvement of the mobile apps

• Special investments were provided for security improvements.

Feel free to browse the detailed list of changes in the Release Notes and check out the usual links for further information and downloads:

• Demo server

• Download

• Documentation

Kindly be aware of the Service Desk to report issues that you might experience with this new version.

Beta Test

The openIMIS Initiative opens up the Beta testing phase to a wider audience. You are now able to play around with new features before the product is even released. Of course, some features might not work as expected at this stage, but you are helping the team achieve a higher quality level by reporting the bugs that you might find. The developers' committee has again bundled an exiting mix of updates and additions into this release:

• The merger with the CORE-MIS software from The WorldBank has concluded the current project phase. openIMIS has received additional and improved fundtionality to cover the basic processes of a full social protection delivery chain from intake and simple targeting to payout of benefits.

• A new module for Grievance Management was added as a joint contribution from the Gambian UHC Implementation and the CORE-MIS merger project.

• The team from Nepal has again contributed a number of features back into the main package that proved useful during daily work with the system.

• Many bug fixes and performance improvements were applied based on feedback from the field.

• Special investments were provided for security improvements.

You can already try out the new version on the release server. Feel free to browse the full list of changes in the release notes and to check out the usual links for further information and testing:

• Release Server (same credentials as the Demo server)

• Testing scenarios / Instructions

• Test Management Platform

• Documentation (might not be fully updated to the new release, yet)

Kindly be aware of the Service Desk to report issues that you might experience with this new version.

If want to take it further and wish to participate in the official beta testing, please contact Saurav Bhattarai (saurav.bhattarai@giz.de) or leave a comment on this page.

• CORE-MIS integration

  • Modules (only changed or added components):

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      Beneficiary Registry

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        anonymisation

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        API based data updates

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      Programmes

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        programm suspension

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        beneficiary status update

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        template file for bulk data update

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      Payment & Reconciliation

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        payroll process (CSV & Excel)

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        payment / invoice deduplication

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        payroll for digital payrolls

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        remove individual invoices from payroll

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        additional data items for upload

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        import summary

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        pdf report of payment

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      Grievances

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      Tasks

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        change-log

  • cross-cutting functionalities

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      data update dashboard

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      enable/disable openSearch

Kindly be aware that not all developers are maintaining their tickets in a public Jira project. These will not be visible in the lists below. In that case kindly refer to the github repositories to follow up detailed changes.