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Kevin Cussen (Deactivated) & Christine Lenihan presented this deck describing the outcome of 4 days of exploration in Tanzania and Zambia. In Tanzania they interviewed 4 of the 6 roles. Based on these interviews the gap appears to be fairly small and limited to reporting related functionality. However, in Zambia many gaps in functionality were found with high levels of complexity. One additional week in Tanzania will likely be enough to complete discovery, while 2 - 3 additional weeks in Zambia will likely be required to document feature gaps.
JSI (Ashraf) took this Some in attendance took the opportunity to question the wisdom of building a new platform without an end user, instead suggesting that USAID and BMGF should invest in upgrading eLMIS. Wendy B suggested their that there should be a MoU between VR and JSI and it was stated that there is a lot of mistrust between the two organizations. USAID stated that new implementations of OpenLMIS are a higher priority than an upgrade for either Tanzania or Zambia, and that there was an expectation that the community work together.
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Chris Opit and Wendy Bommett gave a demonstration of the features of eLMIS Facility Edition. Tim Bollinger from CHAI Mozambique and Danni Yu of Thoughtworks ThoughtWorks gave a presentation on the ESMS application in use in Mozambique. ESMS is a mobile front-end for Android tablets that uses the stock management back-end functionality developed in version 2 of OpenLMIS. They discussed the approved scale up of ESMS in Mozambique to 100 facilities in 2017 and the handover of ownership from CHAI Moz to PSM who will support the app moving forward.
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