November Meetings in Lusaka, Zambia

November Meetings in Lusaka, Zambia

This page is for planning purposes for the week of November 26th in Lusaka, Zambia. 

 

GHSCS Agenda: http://ghscs.com/agenda-2018/

Full Agenda (pdf):  http://ghscs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/11th-GHSC2018-Full-Agenda-FINAL-Nov19.pdf

Meetings to Schedule

  • In-person Gap Project status update to Lindabeth 

    • Participants@Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) (point), @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

    • Duration: 30 minutes at least

    • Prep: Presentation with Burndown, summary of key achievements, top risks, estimated scope to be delivered by the end, financial update

    • TimeNov 29, 2018 

Tentative Schedule

Day

Meetings/Activities

Participants

Notes

Day

Meetings/Activities

Participants

Notes

Nov 26 Monday

Prep day and potentially meetings

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

 

 

Nov 27

Tuesday

eLMIS/Facility Edition site visit

  • Goal: to see how eLMIS/FE is being used and learn what has been working or lessons learned

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

  • @Felimone Amone Junior

  • @Aida Coelho (Deactivated)

  • @Dércio Duvane

  • Dimitri Peffer

  • Brana Santos

  • @Ashraf

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

Please add your name if you are interested in attending the site visit.

 

Waiting to hear back from @Chris Opit (Unlicensed) and @Ashraf on feasibility.

Update from Wendy- Nov 20

We shall be visiting two sites on Tuesday the 27th of November 2018 namely Levy Mwanawasa Hospital and State lodge health center.

Logistics. We shall pick you up from the Radisson at 9am on Tuesday morning, we have managed to secure vehicles for the site visits. You shall be taken to both facilities, Chris and I shall accompany you and at the end of the tour we shall have you dropped off at the Radisson

Approvals - we have obtained approval for Levy and are awaiting for approval from the District to visit State Lodge, we shall have this before the end of the week.

The sites are within Lusaka and we shall visit all of them in the morning. We should plan to spend no more than 1.5 hours to 2 hours max at each facility.

Nov 27

Optional Conference Side Event: 9am-5pm

People that Deliver workshop Using a Theory of Change and whole of Supply Chain Management labor market approach to catalyze country investments to improve Human Resources: A practical toolkit 

anyone who is available and interested- note: you must register

This is a one-day workshop (9:00 am - 5:00 pm) to be held the day before the Global Health Supply Chain Summit. This is a joint collaboration between the GHSC-PSM project, USAID, and the People that Deliver. Please see below for more information as well as the attached agenda. You must sign up in order to attend. To reserve your place, please fil l out this online form.  

Nov 27 

Tuesday Dinner

7:30pm

Dinner among Trusted Partners and OpenLMIS Gap Team

Where: Horseshoe Steakhouse (TripAdvisor

Address: Nangwenya Rd, Lusaka, Zambia

Everyone

  • @Edward Wilson

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @MAHMUDUL ISLAM (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

  • @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)

  • @Ashraf

  • @Dércio Duvane

  • @Alfred Mchau (Deactivated)

  • @Felimone Amone Junior

Mary Jo is asking the JSI team for recommendations. 

Logistics: Meet in Radisson Blu lobby at 7am to share/arrange taxi  transport. Otherwise, you can get your own transport to Horseshoe Steakhouse at 7:30pm.

Nov 28

Wednesday

GHSCS Day 1
(conference sessions all day)

3:00pm Prep Session for Advocacy Event

Goal: run through the presentation and ensure everyone is clear on roles/responsibilities

GHSCS Prep Session

  • @Edward Wilson

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @MAHMUDUL ISLAM (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

  • @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) (lead)

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed) (taking Craig's place)

  • Malawi Representatives (Mr. Vuso Tembo & Chifundo Chilivumbo)

 

Nov 28

Wednesday

Conference Session: 

OpenLMIS Expansion in Mozambique: A collaborative success story

Authors/presenters:

  • António Langa

  • Brana Santos

  • Custódio Mondlane

  • @Dércio Duvane

This session will start at 1:45 PM in Track 2  (Location: Room 1)

Nov 28

Wednesday

Conference Session: 

Interoperability: Health and Supply Chain information systems to achieve maximum impact

Authors/presenters:

  • @Alfred Mchau (Deactivated)

  • Derek Ritz

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • Craig Appl

This session will start at 3:10 PM in Track 7  (Location: Mini-Dome)

Nov 28

Wednesday

Gap Meetings:

  • Gap v3.6 Feature Discussions

    • Facilitator: @Wesley Brown

    • Location: Radisson Blu - Boardroom 1

    • Duration: Full day (5 separate meetings) - 8:40am-3pm sessions start

      • Lunch: 12-12:45 (or maybe working lunch if boardroom is close to lunch location)

    • Focus:

ARV Meeting

  • @Ashraf (leader)

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) (required)

  • @Alfred Mchau (Deactivated)

  • @Dércio Duvane

  • @Felimone Amone Junior

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

Notifications

  • @Wesley Brown (leader)

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) (required)

  • @Ashraf (required)

  • @Alfred Mchau (Deactivated)

  • @Dércio Duvane

  • @Felimone Amone Junior

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

DHIS2 (update only)

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) (leader)

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) (required)

  • @Alfred Mchau (Deactivated) (required)

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed) (required)

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @Dércio Duvane

  • @Ashraf

  • @Felimone Amone Junior

Data Pumps (Flexible)

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated) (leader)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @Wesley Brown

  • Ona

Architecture

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • Others?

 

Nov 29

Thursday

Morning

Gap Meetings:

  • Connect with local JSI team (Waiting on confirmation)

    • Facilitator: @Wesley Brown

    • Duration: Morning

    • Focus: Meet the local Zambia JSI team, get an insiders tour of eLMIS as well as the Facility Edition, discuss what performance tests and non-functional requirements eLMIS currently has, and hear about the roadmap for future work

  • @Wesley Brown

  • potentially @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson (may or may not depart for 11am session)

  • @Edward Wilson

 

Nov 29

Thursday

Morning

Conference Session:

Integrating systems to provide end to end visibility: Supplying remote health facilities with critical commodities takes more than one system.

Authors/presenters:

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • Craig Appl

This session will start at 8:15-10:15 AM in Track 15 (Location: Mini-Dome)

Nov 29

Thursday

Morning

Conference Session:

Visualize, Analyze, Improve: Development and Use of the EPI Dashboard in Mozambique

Authors/presenters:

  • Timoteo Chaluco 

  • Dercio Duvane 

  • Christine Lenihan 

  • Vidya Sampath 

This session will start at 11:00-12:15 in Track 20 (Location: Room 2-3)

Nov 29

Lunch

GHSCS Day 2
(conference sessions all day)

LUNCH: OpenLMIS Advocacy event (funded by BMGF)

  1. Participants: TP representatives, OpenLMIS Core Team and Gap Team members, ministry officials

  2. Goal: Introduce OpenLMIS v3, highlight what Malawi has done, and showcase capabilities/services of the Trusted Partners in the community.

  3. Date: November 29th lunch

Lunch Presenters:

  • @Edward Wilson

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @MAHMUDUL ISLAM (Unlicensed)

  • @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

  • @Craig Appl (Unlicensed) 

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)

  • @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • Malawi Representatives (Mr. Vuso Tembo & Chifundo Chilivumbo)

Details:

Location; Meeting room 4 (on the first floor)

Time: starts at 12:15; our team should arrive by 11:45

 

 

 

 

Here is the planning document
Here is the

Nov 29

Thursday Afternoon

Gap Meetings:

  • Gap v3.6 Scheduling

    • Facilitator: Not @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

    • Location: Radisson Blu - Boardroom 1

    • Duration: Afternoon

    • Focus: Team Scheduling for Version 3.6

 

  • @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

  • @Wesley Brown

  • @Josh Zamor (Deactivated)

  • @Sebastian Brudziński

  • @Ashraf

  • @Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)

 

Nov 29

Thursday 

5:30 - 8:30pm

Leveraging Partnerships and Technologies to Strengthen Warehousing and Distribution Systems

Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Hotel Radisson Blu Lusaka Join Chemonics International and our partners during the upcoming Global Health Supply Chain Summit in Zambia for a cocktail reception and interactive event. We look forward to engaging dialogues around innovative partnerships and technologies and the common challenges experienced by supply chain logisticians in resource-limited settings.

 

Register here

Nov 30

Friday

GHSCS Training Day
(post-conference training sessions and academic sessions for faculty)

9:00  - 10:30 AM: OpenLMIS Internal Community Meeting (funded by BMGF)

  • Goal: to meet each other, to evaluate and discuss OpenLMIS processes, identify ways to improve the community, discuss 2019 roadmap, discuss responding to RFPs, potentially in-person Product and Technical meetings

  • Agenda: State of the community, followed by unconference approach where we will vote on the ideas and then spend time discussing

  • Facilitators: @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)@Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

  • Location: Boardroom 1

  • Duration: 1.5 hours

TP representatives, OpenLMIS Core Team, Gap Team members

(@Craig Appl (Unlicensed) may be interested to join remotely if this is ~11pm Seattle)

 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM : Break out for Gap Meetings:

  • Gap Retrospective

    • Facilitator: @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

    • Location: Radisson Blu - Boardroom 1

    • Duration: 1.5 hours

Participants: VR, Team Leads, others as required

 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM : Break out for TPs:

  • Learning how to demo and understanding OpenLMIS v3 functionality.

    • Facilitator: @Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) with support from @Sebastian Brudziński

    • Location: TBD

    • Duration: 1.5 hours

Participants: @Dércio Duvane (VR), @Former user (Deleted) (CHAI), @Edward Wilson (JSI), @MAHMUDUL ISLAM (Unlicensed) (SoftWorks), 

 

PM: OpenLMIS strategic planning 

  • Location: Radisson Blu - Boardroom 1

  • Participants: VR OpenLMIS strategic Meeting

@Josh Zamor (Deactivated)@Wesley Brown@Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)@Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)@Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

Facilitation: @Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

Supporting: @Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

 

Topics to Discuss

OpenLMIS: the global initiative for powerful LMIS software