Inauguration of Stakeholder Committee

Members of the openIMIS Stakeholder Committee came together in a call on 25 April 2024 for the first time to jointly discuss and provide feedback to the global initiative on latest developments and start off plannings for a virtual openIMIS Stakeholder Conference, to be conducted by the end of the year.

Selina Baumberger from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Alexander Schrade from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) welcomed representatives from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Social Security Association (ISSA), World Bank, World Food Programme, the Asian e-Health Information Network (AeHIN), Swiss TPH, SolDevelo as well as a sectoral expert in health financing from Cameroon to the inauguration of the Committee. The Stakeholder Committee complements existing bodies of the openIMIS governance structure and reflects the evolution of the initiative since 2016, with manyfold partners implementing and developing the Digital Public Good for the management of health and social protection programmes. Next to the Stakeholder Committee members observers from Dataprev (state-owned IT development company from Brazil), the Digital Convergence Initiative for Social Protection and the openIMIS initiatives’ communication agency m4h joined and engaged with the group.

Agenda

Open

 Participants

Members of the openIMIS Stakeholder Committee:

• SDC Selina Baumberger, Programme Officer, Thematic Cooperation - Health

• BMZ Alexander Schrade, Senior Policy Officer, Division Population Policy, Social Protection                                                         

• ILO  Luis Frota, Programme Manager, Innovation and Digital transformation, Social   Protection Department / Actuarial Services Unit

• ISSA    Ernesto Brodersohn, Senior Officer in Social Security, Coordinator of the Technical   Commission on Information and Communication Technology

• WB  Melis Guven, Lead Economist and Global Lead for Social Protection Delivery   Systems at the Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice

• WFP    Joe (Youssouf) Zaarour, Digital Social Protection Advisor (De-briefing scheduled for May 2024)

•  Swiss TPH  Dr. Dragos Dobre, IT Systems Architect (Technical Expert)

• SolDevelo  Artur Lebiedziński, IT Project Manager

• AeHIN  Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Executive Director (De-briefing scheduled for May 2024)

• Sectoral expert  George Atohmbom, Consultant BEPHA and other HF schemes Cameroon

Observers:

• DATAPREV  Felipe Braga Carneiro Leão, Manager, Innovation Laboratory Management Division (DILI)

• Digital Convergence Initiative (DCI)  Janina Voss, Advisor DCI, GIZ

• Management for health (m4h)  Anna von Roenne & Corinne Grainger, communication

Organisers:

• GIZ Ralf Radermacher, Head of Programme, Global Alliances for Social Protection

• openIMIS Coordination Desk

  • Saurav Bhattarai, Head of Component

  • Uwe Wahser, ICT Manager

  • Konstanze Lang, Advisor

Mandate & Activities

The openIMIS Stakeholder Committe 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).

Stakeholder Conference planned for end of 2024

(more detailed information will be added)