Summary of sessions

The community connect engaged the openIMIS community and partners in discussions on a wide range of topics – from the social protection convergence initiative, to formal sector related requirements to an management information system, indicators on an openIMIS implementation for social protection schemes and marketing measures around the upcoming openIMIS introductory e-learning course.

The social protection convergence initiative, was introduced by Anita Mittal and Dominique Leska (GIZ) was introduced as a joint effort by USP2030 members, governments, development partners, civil society and private sector towards creating a harmonised and interoperable digital ecosystem for social protection. The openIMIS community and partners were invited to contribute with their experience to support and shape the initiatives’ actions. Under the convergence initiative working groups had been defined on principles, process standards, data standards and technology standards. Interested experts and organisations can get in touch with the secretariat of the initiative via email or directly engage in a forum. 

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Photo: Anita Mittal, senior advisor digital social protection, GIZ presenting the Convergence Initiative

In another session ILO shared experiences on requirements from a management information system to manage formal sector social insurance programmes. Starting of from the matrix of social security business processes by the International Social Security Association (ISSA), Ann Baeten and Rodrigo Asumpcao (ILO) reflected on the key elements of social insurance schemes in terms of business processes, data to be captured, data flows and the intricacies involved in e.g. managing payroll data in this context.

With the number of openIMIS implementations in diverse countries and use cases increasing Jean Brice Tetka (openIMIS Coordination Desk) gave the impulse to look at existing frameworks for monitoring and evaluation in health (health dimension of social protection), digital health, technology application and health technology and the indicators they suggest. This kicked-off a brainstorming on additionally relevant frameworks and how their indicators would be relevant for monitoring, evaluation and eventually learning on openIMIS implementations of social protection schemes.

To support learning on openIMIS, specifically via the upcoming openIMIS introductory e-learning course, in the final session the community collected ideas on marketing channels and activities to promote the course.

For presentation files and other materials in documentation of the sessions please check the documentation column in the agenda.