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Welcome to our September-November 2025 newsletter! Many exciting things have happened that we want to call your attention to:  Latest Highlights World Health Summit Side Event New video launched on openIMIS solutions Upcoming Events:  Global Digital Health Forum 2025 Recent Events: HELINA - The Pan-…

A new video is now available highlighting implementations of openIMIS solutions in Nepal, Lao PDR, Nigeria, Cameroon, São Tomé and Príncipe and Burundi. The video highlights how openIMIS’s modular, open-source architecture enables tailored solutions for diverse local contexts – with innovations developed in one country shared…

The openIMIS Initiative is happy to announce the October software release of 2025! The current release mainly focuses on bug-fixing, performance improvements and minor functionality upgrades. It also contains new versions of the mobile apps which are now fully compatible with the modular architecture of openIMIS. There is a…

The openIMIS initiative invited the AI Hub for Social Protection to present its work to our community of implementers and developers. The AI Hub helps countries adopt AI responsibly and innovatively. During the introduction, Honga Ross and Sarang Chaudhary highlighted the Hub's services and resources, especially its direct…

The openIMIS Initiative co-organized the GIZ side event: Partnering for Efficiency, Strengthening Collaboration in Health Financing and Digital Health in Times of Resource Constraints.    (Graphic credit © Susanne Asheuer) Anna Sophie Herken, GIZ managing director, opened the event with looking at the ways that…

  The September Bhela was dedicated to Celebrating Women in Tech, bringing together community members to reflect on women’s contributions, the challenges they face, and practical ways to strengthen support for women working in the tech space.  Discussions highlighted the stark gender gap in digital access: 885…

This year’s openIMIS Stakeholder Conference took place on Wednesday, 19 September 2025, and was attended by more than 50 representatives of bilateral implementing agencies, development partners, openIMIS community members, and international organizations working in the fields of digitalization, health and social protection, and…

GIZ, ADB, and Amref Health Africa have joined forces to develop an e-Learning course on integrating AI into the management of social health insurance programmes. A Learning Exchange approach is helping to ensure the course is tailored to real world challenges in Africa and Asia. Learning Exchange AI for Health Insurance, 1st…

  Merankabandi, Burundi’s national Cash for Jobs project, has started using a software solution powered by openIMIS to administer cash transfers and other social protection benefits to more than one million people.       Burundi has taken a big step forward in the development of its social…