The openIMIS Initiative is happy to announce the October software release of 2024!

The current release further extended and improved the functionalities developed during the CORE-MIS migration project with strong support and feedback from several World Bank implementation teams in countries. The main activities in all four phases of the social protection delivery chain (Assess, Enroll, Provide, Manage) are now handled even more efficiently, qualifying openIMIS even more 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 concluded the current project phase. openIMIS has received additional and improved functionality 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 specifications significantly, 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.

• 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):

    • Beneficiary Registry

      • anonymisation

      • API based data updates

    • Programmes

      • programm suspension

      • beneficiary status update

      • template file for bulk data update

    • Payment & Reconciliation

      • payroll process (CSV & Excel)

      • payment / invoice deduplication

      • payroll for digital payrolls

      • remove individual invoices from payroll

      • additional data items for upload

      • import summary

      • pdf report of payment

    • Grievances

    • Tasks

      • change-log

  • cross-cutting functionalities

    • data update dashboard

    • 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.