23 June 2026

Locations

Main room: Belvedere Hall (access is outside through the garden)

Breakout sessions:

Belvedere Hall
Rendevous (1st floor, main building)
The Orient (2nd floor, main building)

Time (NPT) & Room	Session and Topic	Session organizer / presenter	Resources

Time (NPT) & Room	Session and Topic	Session organizer / presenter	Resources
08:30	Registration	At the registration desk participants are kindly requested to: select & sign-in for break-out sessions (I.1-3, II.1-3, see below) - please check-out the session description in the wiki in advance declare consent (or not) for photos & videos taken during the openIMIS Community Meeting, to be published confirm (or not) your participation in the dinner on 23 and 24 June 2026
09:00 - 09:45	Welcome & Orientation Security Briefing (by hotel, 5 min) Moderator introduction and orientation (5 min) Welcome Ceremony ‘igniting candlestick’ (Diyo) with all Speakers, photo (5 min) Welcome by host of the event Health Insurance Board / Social Security Fund Nepal (3 min each) Opening remarks MoHFS Nepal (tbc, 3-5 min) Opening remarks German Embassy, Nepal (3 min) Swiss Embassy, Nepal (3 min) Delegation of the EU to Nepal (tbc, 3 min)	Moderator: Suravi Bhandary, Technical Expert Welcome remarks by co-hosts: Shakuntla Prajapati, Executive Director / HIB Krishna Adhikari, Deputy Executive Director / SSF Opening remarks by: Yeshoda Aryal, Joint Secretary, Chief- Health Coordination Division / MoHFS Nepal (tbc) H.E. Udo Eugen Volz, German Ambassador to Nepal / German Embassy, Nepal H.E. Danielle Meuwly, Swiss Ambassador to Nepal / Swiss Embassy, Nepal Dr. Geertrui Louwagie, Deputy Head of Cooperation / Delegation of the EU to Nepal (tbc)	Welcome & Orientation, Community Meeting Nepal
09:45 - 10:20	Welcome by GIZ health program Nepal & openIMIS initiative (10 min) Ice breaker & agenda overview (20 min)	Suravi Bhandary, Technical Expert & Moderator Dr. Ruth Schumacher, Head of Bilateral Health Program, Support to the Health Sector Strategy II / GIZ Nepal Dr. Bernd Schramm, Head of Global Program, Global Alliances for Social Protection / GIZ Facilitator for ice breaker: …	*quiz / ralley Welcome & Orientation, Community Meeting Nepal
10:20 - 10:55	Country Presentations Introduction country presentation Merankabandi II in Burundi: Scaling CORE-MIS powered by openIMIS to national porgramme volumes (10 min) Bangladesh: openIMIS in Action - Scaling Transparent Data-Driven Social Protection Systems (10 min) Q&A (10 min)	Facilitator / Intro: Saurav Bhattarai, Team Lead, openIMIS Coordination Desk Burundi: W. Anthony B. Belem, Consultant / World Bank Group & Fleury Ininahazawe, Head of Information Systems / Projet d'Appui aux Filets Sociaux Productifs et Emplois, MERANKABANDI, Cash for Jobs Bangladesh: Mahbubul Haque, Advisor-ICT and Digitalization, Social Protection for Workers in the Textile and Leather Sector / GIZ Bangladesh + Md. Hasanuzzaman, Chief Product & Technology Advisor, SkyDigital (BD) Ltd.	Country presentations, Community Meeting Nepal
10:55-11:10	Coffee break (15 min)
11:10-12:20	Country Presentations Poster presentation on current openIMIS implementations (incl. Q&A)	Facilitator: Jennifer Phillips, Advisor, openIMIS Coordination Desk / GIZ Part 1: 30 minutes 1 minute pitches from countries followed by open space for people to walk around and ask questions Cameroon: George Athombom, Team Lead for Testing and Knowledge Management, Consultant M4H Comoros: Dragos Dobre, Swiss TPH and Maxime Ngoe, Y-Note Burundi: W. Anthony B. Belem, World Bank Group and Fleury Ininahazawe, Projet d'Appui aux Filets Sociaux Productifs et Emplois, MERANKABANDI Bangladesh: Md. Mahbubul Haque, GIZ and Md. Hasanuzzaman, SkyDigital (BD) Ltd. Part 2: 30 minutes After 30 minutes, the second group of counties will provide 1 minute pitches on their posters Nepal HIB: Suresh Tinkari, IT Consultant, Health Insurance Board (HIB) Nepal SSF: Rajesh Chapagain, Senior Assistant Director, Social Security Fund (SSF) Tanzania (Mainland): Saurav Bhattarai on behalf of GIZ Tanzania Lao PDR: Soheib Abdalla Elsheikh, UNICEF	Poster session - Country Presentations, Community Meeting Nepal
12:30	Lunch (at hotel)
13:30 - 14:30	Session I: Celebrating a Decade of Impact and Extracting Lessons for the Future Panel Discussion with HIB, SSF, MoHFS and EDP Intro on Break-out Sessions (5 min)	Facilitator: Pratima Rai, Advisor - Social Health Protection / GIZ Health Program, Nepal Panelists: Dr. Pawan Sah, Chief Claims Section and PPMD, Health Insurance Board (HIB), Nepal Dr. Roshan Koju, Director - Information Management Division, Social Security Fund (SSF), Nepal Er. Suraj Prakash Aryal, Standards and Interoperbility, SIL Lab, Director- IT, Ministry of Health and Food Safety (MoHFS), Nepal Ms. Anna Koziel, Health Specialist , The World Bank, Nepal	Session I: Celebrating a Decade of Impact and Extracting Lessons for the Future (Panel Discussion)
14:30-16:00 14:30 - 15:15 breakout session 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:40 - 16:00 Presentation in Plenary	Session I: Celebrating a Decade of Impact and Extracting Lessons for the Future Break-out sessions I.1-3 (45 min) integrated coffee break (15 min) Presentation in the Plenary (20 min)	Breakout session (locations): I.1 openIMIS Lessons learned in health insurance - with product & community // Health Insurance Board & Social Security Fund, GIZ bilateral Health Program in Nepal (Belvedere Hall) I.2 Academia experience - openIMIS as a teaching tool // AeHIN country hub: Kathmandu University and Tribhuvan University in Nepal (Room: Rendevouz, Hotel main building) I.3 Scaling openIMIS/CORE-MIS to national-programme volumes. Performance lessons from Merankabandi II, Burundi // Merankabandi II project and World Bank Group (Room: Orient, Hotel main building)	Session I: Celebrating a Decade of Impact and Extracting Lessons for the Future (Break-out sessions) Support & equipment for Break-out Sessions
16:00-16:40	Session II: Overview on openIMIS & Evolution of Solutions openIMIS Roadmap openIMIS solutions for health & social protection Interoperability Sandbox	Facilitator: Saurav Bhattarai, Team Lead, openIMIS Coordination Desk Presenters: Uwe Wahser, ICT Expert, openIMIS Coordination Desk, Global Alliances for Social Protection / GIZ Dragos Dobre, Project Lead, IT System Architect & Patrick Delcroix, IT Expert / Swiss TPH Maxime Ngoe, CEO / Y-Note & Sunil Parajuli, Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead / Tinker Tech	Session II: Overview & Evolution of Solutions (Plenary session)
16:40 - 18:00 16:45 - 17:40 breakout session 17:45 - 17:55 Presentation in Plenary 17:55 - 18:00 Awarding	Session II: Overview on openIMIS & Evolution of Solutions Break-out Sessions II.1-3 (60 min) Presentation in the Plenary (10 min) Awarding on Hack4UHC winners (5 min)	Breakout session (locations): II.1 3 Interoperability cases & sandbox scenarios // m4h & more (Belvedere Hall) II.2 The strategic potential of openIMIS for national health insurance (Room: Rendevouz; Hotel main building) II.3 Disability Management Information System - The case for an open DMIS // UNICEF (Room: Orient, Hotel main building) Facilitator for Awarding: Purushottam Sapkota, Bilateral Health Program / GIZ Nepal	Session II: Overview on openIMIS & evolution of solutions (Break-out sessions) Support & equipment for Break-out Sessions
18:00-18:15	Wrap-up Day 1 Intro & collecting topics for open space (session) in the afternoon of Day 3 Wrap-up for the day (impressions by the audience) / outlook next day group photo 1	Suravi Bhandary, Technical Expert & Moderator Wrap-up: Saurav Bhattarai Uwe Wahser, ICT Expert, openIMIS Coordination Desk (open space) photo instruction: Rachelle Jung, Communication Specialist, openIMIS Coordination Desk / GIZ	Open space & bilateral talks - topic collection
19:00	Community Dinner (Hotel garden)