Call for Expression of Interest

to join the Stakeholder Committee of the openIMIS Initiative

As the coordinating body of openIMIS, a Digital Public Good in health and social protection, the openIMIS initiative seeks to ensure better representation of its different stakeholder groups in the initiative’s Stakeholder Committee. It is calling for expressions of interest in Stakeholder Committee membership by

• scheme operators using openIMIS (2 representatives on a rotating basis),

• members representing the Implementers’ and Developers’ Committees (2 representatives each),

• bilateral or multi-lateral organisations working on digital health and/or social protection and/or digitalisation (xx); and

• unaffiliated health financing / social protection experts (2 experts)

Why to join?

 As openIMIS Stakeholder Committee member, you will

·      Take part in the development of a Digital Public Good

·      Be part of implementations in partner countries

·      Engage with a global community of practice & learn from implementations

What is the mandate of the Stakeholder Committee?

The openIMIS Stakeholder Committee has an advisory role and supports the openIMIS Initiative to reach its objectives, i.e. to grow its community of practice, to build a robust yet flexible product and to increase the number of implementations of the tool for managing various types of social protection schemes.

Every year, Stakeholder Committee members come together for the Stakeholder Conference. With these meetings the openIMIS initiative facilitates the dialogue between Stakeholder Committee members and the community, with the expanded range of partners and stakeholder interested in the initiatives’ activities. Stakeholder Committee members set the agenda of the public sessions of this conference and are therefore in the position to trigger discussions and exchange that shapes the path for technical, functional and community development.

More detailed functions of the openIMIS Stakeholder Committee are spelled out in the Terms of Reference (link).

How to join?

Step 1:

To join the Stakeholder Committee an institution expresses their interest in written form (email) to the openIMIS Coordination Desk. A short explanation on the motivation to join the Stakeholder Committee and to support the openIMIS initiative should be added.

The deadline for handing in the expression of interest is 30 June 2022 (extended until 15 July 2022).

Step 2:

At the point of establishing the Stakeholder Committee the openIMIS Coordination Desk will consult all expressions of interest with the commissioners of the initiative, BMZ and SDC, and inform candidates individually on the decision in a timely manner.

Step 3:

Prior to joining as a Stakeholder Committee member, the openIMIS Coordination Desk will contact and ask the candidate organisation or expert to confirm in written form (email):

• the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the openIMIS Stakeholder Committee,

• the principles of the openIMIS Initiative, and

• the governance structure of the openIMIS initiative.

Would you like to know more?

If you are interested in joining the Stakeholder Committee and would like to know more about the respective Terms of Reference, the principles of the initiative and its governance structure, we invite you to a call with the openIMIS Coordination Desk on  17 / 25 / 30 May 2022, at 2:00 pm GMT+2, via teams (link to join the call). 

 The decision on new Stakeholder Committee members will be publicly announced until September 2022.

New Stakeholder Committee members will be consulted in preparing the agenda for the openIMIS Stakeholder Conference end of 2022.

The openIMIS Coordination Desk will be happy to assist in case of questions.

Contact:

openIMIS Coordination Desk, konstanze.lang@giz.de & saurav.bhattarai@giz.de