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Jake Watson (Deactivated), Vidya Sampath and Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) traveled to Geneva and Copenhagen to demo the 3.3 features to the Gavi Secretariat and UNICEF Supply Division In addition, the team had one-on-one meetings with key Gavi Senior Country Managers representing 12 countries, and the Global Fund.
Key Trip Takeaways:
Table of Contents:
Date: at 12:00pm
Attendees: There were 30 - 40 people in the room. The team did not pass around a signup sheet. The RSVP for the event is here.
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19fwjoTAKm7KchHlXvOBdK05FnQRMzGon4k_syUGCbmw/edit?usp=sharing
Summary: A full room of attendees that were engaged and asked many questions throughout the presentation. Overall seemed like participants followed the presentation. Folks were excited about the DISC indicators. There were a few questions on capturing data from paper and DVDMT. Similar to BMGF meetings, we weren’t really allowed to get past slide 3 before we the questions/bombarding began -- team had to be flexible in staying engaged and setting aside the script to go with the audience needs. Excellent post-demo follow-up conversation with the Gavi Country Performance Monitoring Unit team (Laura Craw, acting head and Carine Gachen, Sr Manager).
Detailed Notes
Follow-up: As if USAID could publish the third party evaluations of eLMIS in TZ and Zambia. Completed on thanks to Lindabeth from USAID.
Date: at 12:00pm
Attendees: Gemma (tead lead), Innocent (works with Ken Legins and SCS Center and direct advising to country govts), (new) Theresa (forecasting focus), Modeste (D4M focus), ?? who is now the ViVa PM
Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qYnT-PvE_nSntcn3V129MMaD9lIwegpOZXpGpPFoC9Q/edit?usp=sharing
Summary: Presentation very well received; Gemma in particular pleased with the data analytics portions of the presentation and what was possible. In general, between the two orgs, UNICEF SD “got it” more quickly than Gavi did, and are a wee bit closer to country supply chains than the SCMs.
Follow-up: Engage the team around the implementer toolkit. Do you they have suggestions or additional resources?
Date: at 12:00pm
Attendees: Jake Watson (Deactivated), Ryan Wilcoxen, Sophie Logex (Manager, Health Product Management Hub at The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria)
Summary: Quite a bit of discussion around ways to work together and continue to identify overlap in projects or pool funding for system implementations. Global Fund is supportive of GS1 standards and communicated they currently are putting clauses into all contracts that GS1 labeling must be available on all packaging. Sounds like the team is working on something similar to Gavi's Targeted Partner Profile work being lead by Chris Wright currently. Opportunity to coordinate with USAID on the product registry. A team member, Alfons, will attend the GS1 meeting in Ethiopia - . A clear opportunity to establish a good communication with the team for coordinating on implementations, product roadmap and standards.
Follow-up: Obtain a list of their 25 high-impact countries and where they are engaged with diagnostics or supply chain activities. Shared OpenLMISv3 links. How can we link Gavi, USAID, DFID, TGF together?
Much of the conversation was around SELV and potential for EPI integration with CMAM. Acasus is also active in country with funding from DFID and is working on an application on tracking outreach/coverage. Will also work in DRC, in Mozambique, -> to pull more information in around outreach. This *should* feed into the monthly information review.
Not much came from the meeting with the GAvi SCM but GHSC-TA put out an RFP for an LMIS several months ago and they have likely selected a system. Does anyone know anything further?
Using DHIS2 (not with EPI really)
Improvements on:
Gavi wants to support HMIS and LMIS integration
Summary
A few inquiries have come from them to info@openlmis.org. We are encouraged to follow up with the SCM if we see this as an opportunity country.