The implementers’ committee of openIMIS would like to present broad updates to various work packages currently being undertaken by the community and to discuss other topics of interest to the the openIMIS and the broader health and social protection community. 

Co-ordinates

Date: 27.01.2021

Time: 10.00 AM Central European Summer Time (CEST)

Room: https://meet.jit.si/openIMISImplementers- (jitsi claims to support Chrome, Chromium & MS Edge and Firefox browsers only.  You might also want to try the jitsi app)

Participants: (kindly only add yourself, not others):

• @Hanna Kurani

• @Uwe Wahser

• @Purushottam Sapkota

• @Nirmal Dhakal

• @Saurav Bhattarai

• @Siddharth Srivastava

• @Joanna Bebak (Deactivated)

Schedule

Meeting Minutes

Introduction

• Proposal to call this Monthly Implementers Committee Meeting the ‘openIMIS Bhela'. Bhela is the Nepali word for a gathering.

  • No objection to proposal.

Introductions to openIMIS collaboration tools

• Communication Channels

• Uwe gave a run down of the tools, opened the possibility of re-evaluating tools which we are or are not using.

openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund

• The openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund

• Past openIMIS implementation has been hampered by lacking funds.

• In response BMZ & SDC offered to create a fund to help with “catalyzing” implenentation

• Not an ongoing fund meant to fund a whole scheme - only meant to be used for overcoming the initial barrier costs

• Countries with development cooperations with Germany and Switzerland or both will have high priority in applying for this funding.

• Applicants should be scheme implementers, who preferably have a clear idea of their schemes, their SOPs already defined, and definitions and business processes in place

• The fund can be used for software customization and for capacity development

• More details can be found in the above link.

From a scheme operators perspective application is a 2-step approach (described in detail in the above link):

1. Expression of interest: Fill out the form and send to the implementation desk, conduct a pre-feasibility study, and get agreement from donors to conduct feasibility study

2. Feasibility study: Conduct a study of the situation, the scheme, the context, and the needs for implementation, followed by a second approval process by donors and specification of size and modality of support

Open

Overview of an upcoming Capacity Development measures

• Swiss TPH is currently designing capcaity development and training materials for the use on the wiki and through an online course.

• Currently deciding what platform to use for the course following a specific set of criteria, particularly the sustainability of the chosen platform will be important.

• Expected date of completion of the design of the online course is mid-April.

Overview on the approach of building the openIMIS Features Roadmap

• Planning on building functional roadmap. Currently no list exists of all existing functions of the openIMIS platforms.

• Need to map current functions, and discuss possible future functions.