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OpenLMIS (eSIGL) Cote d’Ivoire
OpenLMIS is a leading Open Source electronic logistics management information system purpose-built to manage health supply chains in low- and middle-income countries.
Bringing Nigeria’s Vaccine Last Mile into View
An LGA Cold Chain Officer in Nasarawa State opens Nigeria’s Last Mile Vaccine Stock Visibility (LMVSV) dashboard. Across the health facilities in their LGA, green marks adequate vaccine stock, red signals a stockout and other colors show facilities approaching reorder levels or carrying less...
Sustaining Critical Health Information Systems with Private Sector Engagement
Foreign aid reductions have negatively impacted many low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) health systems in a variety of ways. Aid funding has helped procure and deliver medicines and vaccines, supported health workers delivering health services, and enabled the digital systems that manage supply chain...
Where countries should invest for strong, self-reliant, people-centred supply chains
The latest piece in our thought leadership series – Stronger together: Health supply chain voices – comes from Rebecca Alban, senior manager and team lead at VillageReach. She explains which investments represent best value for money for countries and donors.
Success story: The impact of OpenLMIS on vaccine supply chains in Mozambique
In Mozambique, ensuring the consistent availability of vaccines across vast and remote regions has been a significant challenge. To address this, the country implemented OpenLMIS. Known locally as Sistema Electrónico de Logística de Vacinas (SELV), this system has revolutionized the nation’s vaccine supply chains.
Transforming the health logistics landscape with OpenLMIS: 2024 in retrospective
OpenLMIS is a continuously growing initiative, always seeking new improvements and striving to provide more health logistics possibilities for its users. As a part of the OpenLMIS Core Team, we actively participate in the application development as well as its implementations. 2024 was marked...
Looking Better than Ever: OpenLMIS v3.5 offers exciting new visual & analytics capabilities
Reposted from OpenLMIS The latest release of the OpenLMIS software, version 3.5, is a major accomplishment for the Initiative and a milestone for public health supply chain stakeholders globally. 3.5 is the sixth major release since the re architecture and represents how implementers continue to...
OpenLMIS Releases Version 3.4
Reposted from OpenLMIS OpenLMIS is a global initiative to support the development of shareable, interoperable, open-source software for electronic logistics management information systems. The OpenLMIS initiative’s mission is to make a powerful Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) available in low-resource environments – providing high-quality...
OpenLMIS announces the launch of OpenLMIS version 3, an open source logistics management information system (LMIS)
Announcement- March 2, 2017 OpenLMIS Releases Version 3 Today, OpenLMIS announces the release of OpenLMIS version 3, an open source logistics management information system (LMIS). The OpenLMIS Community, representing a global consortium of partners including software developers, implementers and donors, collaborated on a full redesign of...
Understanding (with) SELV
OpenLMIS, SELV, iSC. To most people these acronyms don’t mean much. To me, they tell a story of getting vaccines to the most remote communities in Mozambique. Sistema Electronico de Logstica de Vacinas (SELV) is the local name of a software used to record...
What do vaccines and vending machines have in common? Using data to improve vaccine delivery in Benin
Over the past year and a half in Benin, VillageReach has supported the Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) in their work to pilot and scale Logivac, an informed push distribution system for immunization commodities. Starting as a pilot in a single health zone in...
2014: A Year of Learning
Why Peer-to-Peer Learning is a Critical Part of Health System Improvement As the Country Director for VillageReach in Mozambique, I am very encouraged by the progress we have made in the last 12 months. Great strides were made at the national level to bring...
Testing Innovation in the Field - SELV
A few weeks back, my colleague Rachel Powers wrote about VillageReach’s customized deployment of an open-source electronic logistics system (OpenLMIS) in Mozambique, where it is referred to as SELV (Sistema Electrónico de Logística de Vacinas). Along with members of our team, she and I...Background
John Snow Inc. (JSI) through the MEASURE Evaluation project currently implements OpenLMIS (developed in partnership with VillageReach) in Côte d’Ivoire in 50 facilities that are clients of the Central Medical Store (NPSP). Locally called eSIGL, OpenLMIS supports requisition processes for several programs including malaria, HIV, lab commodities, essential medicines, and reproductive health medicines.
Last Mile in Equateur, DRC. (Photo Credit: Henry Sempangi Sanyulye)
How It Works
- 50 facilities are using the system on a regular basis to order and report on commodity usage and to provide key stakeholders real time access to available data. Currently, eSIGL is in the process of scaling from the initial 50 facilities to a total of 318 throughout the country.
Partners
Technical Partners
- JSI Snow, Inc
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