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Germany joins the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty: openIMIS recognized as key instrument to achieve digital transformation in social protection systems
Germany's recent commitment to the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty signifies a powerful step towards strengthening social safety nets and social protection worldwide. A proposal from the G20 Brazil presidency, one of the alliance’s aims is to “raise resources and knowledge for implementation of public…
Ké Non in Sao Tome, powered by openIMIS
(Em-)powered by openIMIS, the island nation Sao Tomé and Principe is effectively managing its social protection programs
In May 2023, the government of the Central African island nation Sao Tomé and Principé adopted a new digital information management system for its national social protection system. It is called "Ké-Non (= our house)" and based on the CORE-MIS solution, powered by the digital global good openIMIS. The government’s Institute of…
Yolande Goswell portrait 2024
Celebrating Women in Tech: Yolande Margaret Goswell
Country: The GambiaTitle & Organisation: Systems and Project Manager, 2M CorpEducation: Masters and bachelor degrees in computer engineeringAbout 2M Corp… 2M Corp was established in 2019 and is a technology solutions company specialising in data analytics for large-scale impact evaluations and surveys,…
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On openIMIS and actuarial analysis
The Bhela meetings in May and June explored how actuarial analysis strengthens health insurance design and how openIMIS and the ILO/Health actuarial tool can contribute to this. What is actuarial analysis? In his opening presentation at the Bhela meeting in May, Jens Geissler, Professor for Health and Social Sector Management…
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Diversifying Software Development Teams
Where are the women in the software development space? openIMIS raises this diversity question at GIZ’s Digital Africa Gathering 2024 At the GIZ internal conference ‘Digital Africa Gathering’ (13 – 16 May 2024) openIMIS hosted a discussion around the critical question: ‘Where are the women in the software development teams?’…
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Global Public Good: New Free Digital Software to Manage Health and Social Protection Programs
Washington D.C./Berlin/Bern, March 20, 2023 --- The World Bank, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) have announced an integrated new open-source software package to improve the management of social protection and health financing schemes in…
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openIMIS Highlights of January
openIMIS initiative supports the management of HIV scheme in Cameroon  As part of a support measure through the openIMIS Catalytic Implementation Fund, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute will support the implementation of openIMIS for managing the Ministry of Health’s HIV user fee elimination scheme. The…
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Highlights of the openIMIS initiative 2022
  The launch of the employment injury scheme in Bangladesh, the first purely modular version of openIMIS and 10.6 million people benefiting from openIMIS managed schemes - A lot has happened this year in the openIMIS initiative. With this newsletter we summarize the highlights for you. Have fun reading!   …
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Bangladesh launches employment injury scheme by using openIMIS
Bangladesh launched a ground-breaking employment injury scheme – the first of its kind – providing income protection for workers in the country’s ready-made garment sector   This pioneering scheme, named EIS Pilot, will ensure that, for a trial period of three years, all workers in the export-oriented ready-made…