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The Belgian Development Agency Enabel took to the floor to present the initiative which is focused on 4 digital pillars ̶ i) digital skills, ii) digital rights, iii) digital governance and iv) entrepreneurship and its link with digitalisation. Their support for digital transformation as clearly pointed out by Jan Kennis spreads across many different sectors of interest with digital health being one of their primary sectors.
Enabel supports the implementation of openIMIS in three countries: Niger, Mauritania and Tanzania (Zanzibar), through two different implementing approaches.
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Register all the residents in Zanzibar (about 1.6 million residents) and provide each resident a unique identification number.
Collect utilisation data at facility level. With these, supplies delivered to facilities will be easily tracked as well as the services provided.
Collect household socio-economic data (e.g. supporting eligibility criteria definition for certain health services in the future)
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Dr. Heri Marwa emphasised that Zanzibar had the chance to learn from the openIMIS implementation in Tanzania mainland and could identify the following advantages of using openIMIS for its own implementation:
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Saurav Bhattarai starts his remarks underlining the wealth of knowledge and experience on the implementation level as demonstrated by the previous presentations: “This knowledge, the experience on the ground and the ability to share it with a community is what made openIMIS, what it is today.” To have all this knowledge shared there is a role for a community of practice. The openIMIS coordination desk facilitates and coordinates the exchange. Coordination starts from the governance structure of the openIMIS initiative.
The coordination desk of openIMIS operationalises the defined strategic direction, administrates budgets and oversees the activities of the involved working groups. It coordinates between the implementers and developers committee and facilitates the continuous exchange with users. It also maintains a lot of knowledge tools around the community e.g. wiki, website and collaboration tools. The aim of the coordination desk is to grow and foster the community. It manages new software developments, promotes the use and further development of openIMIS. The most recent of such developments is the new openIMIS anniversary release with impressive features such as the AI module for claims adjudications.
Furthermore, the coordination desk provides capacity development through our regional hubs, structured trainings, webinars and an e-learning course (to be launched in 2022) as well as ad-hoc capacity development support.
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