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
The openIMIS CIF has been set up to provide complimentary investments to scheme operators who would like to implement or scale openIMIS in their social (health) protection schemes. The catalytic fund is aimed at helping scheme operators get their schemes off the ground and allow them to keep growing the schemes beyond the initial implementation. It is an important objective of the openIMIS CIF to allow scheme operators to have sustainable management information systems which are adjustable to changing needs, interoperable with other relevant programs, and scalable to include target populations beyond the initial target group. The purpose of this fund is not to continuously support an openIMIS implementation, rather to provide the resources to get started and develop a sustainable plan for continued use of the tool.
The form and amount of the support from the CIF will be decided on a case-by-case basis. A feasibility study and assessment of needs will be done to gain a better picture of the supplemental resourcing or funds necessary to allow scheme operators to implement openIMIS.
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The fund is unlikely to disburse funds directly to the scheme operator in monetary terms, rather it is likely to cover various implementation costs directly. Some examples of how the fund may be used include:
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Who can apply?
The openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund is aimed at supporting operators of health financing or other social protection scheme, for implementing openIMIS to manage the scheme’s business processes.
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.
What if I’m an Implementing Organization?
If you are an individual/organization supporting scheme operators in their efforts to digitize work processes and feel openIMIS is a suitable tool, please facilitate the link between the scheme operator and the openIMIS initiative. The openIMIS coordination desk would be happy to work together with you and the scheme operator in completing the various steps required for receiving support from the CIF.
Combining funding streams
For the sustainability of a supported scheme it is important that the scheme operator is able to source at least some portion of the necessary resources for the implementation of openIMIS from other sources. This can be done by using existing funds/in-kind support from the scheme operator or by approaching other development partners to co-finance the implementation of openIMIS. We highly encourage combining various funding streams, especially those form the organization itself, as it will lay the foundations for a long-lasting, sustainable implementation of openIMIS.
Powering the openIMIS CIF
Currently, BMZ and SDC are the main funders of the openIMIS CIF. If you are an organization that would like to contribute to the openIMIS CIF and use it to expand the implementations of openIMIS, please reach out to the openIMIS coordination desk at cif@openimis.org and we will get in touch with you with more details of the openIMIS CIF.
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