Coordinated by the AeHIN-openIMIS regional hub, ten identified testers from Nepal (Tinker Technology and Kathmandu University) and the Philippines (San Beda College of Medicine and AeHIN Secretariat based in Manila) joined the beta testing for the October 2024 software release of openIMIS. The testers were given the opportunity to play around with new features before the updated version of openIMIS was released. 

The openIMIS coordination desk, in its public announcement, shares that: “The current release further extended and improved the functionalities developed during the CORE-MIS migration project with strong support and feedback from several World Bank implementation teams in countries. The main activities in all four phases of the social protection delivery chain (Assess, Enroll, Provide, Manage) are now handled even more efficiently, qualifying openIMIS even more as a robust and dynamic social protection information system.”

For this release, the openIMIS developers committee included the following updates:

  • Merger with the CORE-MIS software from The World Bank 
  • New module for grievance management 
  • Compliance to the GovStack standard specifications significantly, qualifying openIMIS as an official GovStack building block
  • A number of features contributed by the Nepal team
  • Many bug fixes and performance improvements 
  • Special investments were provided for security improvements

The openIMIS regional hub in Asia, hosted by AeHIN, is part of a project supported by GIZ and commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.