July 19, 2016

Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

Next week w/Product Committee: Will be reviewing a medium-level product roadmap

Feature process flow to be discussed next week to work together and prioritize the backlog after the 3.0 release

Will send out links, tracking the work at an epic/mid-level view

Product decisions next week: Will bring those to the Governance Committee next month - roadmap at a detailed view

Ensure that we're building the right things first

Conflict in prioritization? Governance committee weigh in on/guide

Mid-level prioritization outside of what we've already committed - results of that would be presented to the Governance committee

Contribution process was focused more on technical committee and product - results of that would go to the Governance committee

Drafting a list of risks involved with the project - would also bubble up to the Governance

Chris Wright

JSI trying to get clearer participation at different levels. What was proposed and what was decided - comes from Product and moves up to Governance? In order to be in the loop on how Product arrived at its decision.

Ashraf & Mattias have been in both committees, but more heavily internal to the software development discussion. What makes sense to contribute and how? Chris comes from a subject-matter perspective - supply chain.

Lakshmi Balachandran

Android facility-level application of OpenLMIS completed late last year, deployed in 9 facilities, at this point is in 25 facilities and on course to be scaled out to 100 facilities by the end of the year

HIV, Maternal, Nutrition, Malaria, integrated but not all commodities. Vaccines are not involved.

Interest from the MOH to scale this up, having discussions with donors in-country. Only at the HF level with OpenLMIS serving as the web-portal at regional stores. Interoperates with one system at the district level, and another at the national level.

UNFPA is keen is pushing CHANNEL in Mozambique there - saying they've invested in the technical side as well to make it more robust. Ministry at least wants to look at CHANNEL as an option. They have been given a template evaluation to fill out to see if it's a feasible.

Sort-of using a requirements-based decision process yet?

Drop-dead date is September 16. Well within the timeframe to make sure that the BAA work is looped in.

Chris

The word from USAID is that they've gotten through a number of internal deadlines - there has been a silence other than, we're working on it. For the BAA framework. With Lindabeth, Jake has been in touch in terms of when we'll get some numbers. Will reconvene, PSM has been brought in as well, to make sure we're all on the same page. Proposed a year-long engagement, but we're actually talking about 5 months timeline. We have three different buckets: Learning from field - implementations from 1.x and 2.x into 3.x to inform re-architecture; using a similar process to update the CRDM for OpenLMIS to reflect actual implementations in countries; putting together and working w/country teams to put together business cases to upgrade to 3.x. Get back together early next week - preliminary numbers by the end of the month.

OpenLMIS Opportunities

Opportunities (Archive) page

• Malawi
• Guinea
• Senegal
• Mozambique
• Global Digital Health Forum
  • Abt Associates
  • PATH abstract
  • OpenLMIS abstract (additional participation?)
• Gavi INFUSE

Lindabeth Doby

Kyle Duarte just got started last week - don't have any big initiatives going yet, but would be good to keep him looped in on communications.

SIAPS - Guinea : USAID keeping an eye on it?

Tony and his team, don't talk to LB about LMIS projects. Didn't know this was going on - Abdou was talking OpenLMIS. Would love to learn more.

Kaleb Brownlow (Deactivated) and Lindabeth Doby

Kaleb - David and Deborah are in town for some family planning work - told him to reach out toTony. Asked David to reach out, not the highest degree of of communication between SIAPS.

3-4 people working on it on USAID's side - very decentralized. Don't necessarily keep tabs on all of it. LB may reach out to Tony, and also Lisa and Toby to see if she can get additional information.

AOB - DHIS2/OpenLMIS integration and DHIS2 as LMIS system

Chris Wright

DHIS2 - OpenLMIS integration in countries where it's been done/considered

U of O has to positioned DHIS2 as the answer as all things data - to be used an an eLMIS

Nigeria / CHAI working with DHIS2 as an LMIS

SIAPS also wants to use it in Bangladesh as an LMIS system

Several countries using it - product owner seeking to expand into that area. From JSI's perspective - try to be agnostic. Looking at DHIS2

Kaleb Brownlow (Deactivated)

Has been raised several times, been some disagreement between implementing partners (software developers vs. U of O) - DHIS2 is not an LMIS, trying to have everyone be honest about what their systems are/are not. See exactly where this falls and Gates could take a stronger side, but overall BMGF disagrees that DHIS2 is an effective LMIS tool. Conversations still happening at the country level. In contact with folks in Nigeria, with CHAI. What can it do/what not? Would you use it for a few products?

Lindabeth Doby

We had an additional meeting with DHIS2, how do they see a logistics module within DHIS2 - convo with lead developer.

Chris

Taken on a life of its own - expertise has built up in country to manage/support DHIS2 and that is passing on to a "why not use DHIS2 for LMIS also since we already have expertise in its customization and management?" conversation.

Tenly Snow (Deactivated)

More important than ever to emphasize OpenLMIS/DHIS2 integration, and steer conversations away from DHIS2 being used as an LMIS.

Follow up question: How can we help steer MOH colleagues or other in-country stakeholders away from considering DHIS2 as an LMIS system? What kinds of back-up, collateral, or talking points would help?