Feb 11, 2020

Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) , Ashraf, and maybe others

Discuss recent opportunities:

Swaziland eLMIS- RFP Approved_RFP_eLMIS CMS_eSwatini_2020.pdf

-JSI/Ashraf: estimated timeframe was 3 months, which did not seem likely. Not successful to find suitable partner. Didn't seem worth the investment for only 3 months. Ashraf provided feedback to them why the timeframe seemed unrealistic. Thus no submission was made.

Uzbekistan vLMIS-  https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/100565

• Outcome: timeframe was extended, a proposal was prepared with: VillageReach, SolDevelo, and an Uzbeki company called DataSite, formed a consortium with JSI. The proposal is compelling and fulfilled almost all requirements
• Annual maintenance fund of 25k was incorporated into the budget for this proposal. This is something we are aiming to formalize for current/future implementations. 
• 25k would go to whoever is providing support; 25k for each year was budgeted
• Carl: Where did this figure come from? is that maintenance for the implementation or for the core software?
• Ashraf: Came from the Joburg workshop; rooted in Resonance research. We need to confirm what our messaging is . Is it an 'upgrade fee'? or is annual fee accurate? We could talk about it as a retainer fee for helpdesk support. As long as we can say its helpdesk support from community, can give TA for how to upgrade to new versions. not a surcharge but actual services are included. We might be hearing from Uzbekistan again soon (within the month). It could be helpful to have some language ready when they come with questions. **Urgency to get some language set up for the next few weeks
• Brandon: This is one of the workstreams that the stewards have in our plans. We have to determine what pricing structure makes sense. Need to draft an SLA to tell people what they get for these services

other implementation opportunities/leads to share?

Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) and/or Brian Taliesin

Notes from first partnership working group meeting are here (semi private wiki page)

Working Group had our first meeting to clarify our mode of working and finalize our TOR for the coming months; will meet every 2 weeks

-In first meeting decided on recruitment strategy; create and circulate an EOI to make sure we are casting a wide enough net (don't want to limit to just tech/health companies)

-Goal: Make final recommendations to for governance committee vote by Nov 2020

-Shortlisting of partners and interviews/scoring of partners will happen iteratively throughout the year. At a minimum will thoroughly evaluate 3 partners.

Overview of Working Group TOR and key milestones

Next steps for working group:

• Adapt interview guide and score card to use for assess potential partners (this month), will share these drafts for discussion at next governance meeting
• contribute/comment on document outlining handover partnership terms/wants/needs; 
• finalize draft EOI 

Request: comments or feedback on Working Group TOR by Friday Feb 14th (Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)  circulated over discourse)

The basics: A proposal to BMGF submitted this week to fund OpenLMIS activities throughout our next phase while we select a partner, and transition activities. This includes funding for ongoing product/community maintenance as well

Timeline: Proposal was for 24 months but this might be shortened. We proposed an Exploratory Phase (up to 12 months) that ends when a Handover Partner is chosen and all agreements/MOUs are in place to conduct the handover.

In the subsequent Handover Phase (up to 12 months) we anticipate ramping down all donor-funded stewardship and transferring responsibility for it to the Handover Partner. VR role shifts to monitoring and supporting during this phase.

Key results expected:

Roles & Responsibilities:

-OpenLMIS stewards- continue to manage community and product; push forward sustainability initiatives; be the leaders and 'doers' in our sustainability workstreams

1) Partnership Working Group (led by stewards with heavy community participation)- to vet and select partner

2) Value of Data workstream -understand the value of OpenLMIS data, company willingness to pay for it, country willingness to share or sell it

3) Establish Annual Maintenance Fund-coordinate with donors, and current implementations to establish fund; document the sponsorship model;  establish funding mechanism; establish transparent maintenance prioritization (for those paying in)

-External support: Kim and others from Resonance will provide advice and guidance

Questions/Comments/Suggestions:

none

Upcoming Conferences for 2020 (let's add them here!)

There is interest in a Digital Square maintained Calendar of Events. So we might eventually link with that calendar in the future

• Question: Will there be another Global Health Supply Chain summit this year? 

• Health Datapalooza
  • February 10-11, 2020  Washington, D.C. 
  • https://www.academyhealth.org/events/2020-02/2020-health-datapalooza   

• Symposium DHIS2 
  • March 19-20, 2020  Washington, DC  
  • https://dhis2symposium.org/

• ICT4D - The Global Digital Development Conference  
  • April 21-23, 2020 Training Day: April 24. Abuja, Nigeria 
  • https://www.ict4dconference.org/
  • **I heard DIAL is doing a sustainability-related event here. Anyone have details?

• HHL2020 - 12th Annual Conference on Health & Humanitarian Logistics 
  •  will most likely be held on July 10-11, 2020. Kigali, Rwanda  
  • https://chhs.gatech.edu/conference/

Country implementation opportunities: