Southern Sudan is taking important first steps toward the national implementation of iHRIS Manage, the Capacity Project’s human resources (HR) management software. The software will be installed in HR offices in Central Equatoria, Western Bahr al Ghazal and Upper Nile in the upcoming weeks. In preparation, HR officers and HR information systems point persons from each of the three states attended a three-day training session on the system and learned how to enter data and produce reports.
To ensure full participation in country-wide implementation, the Project also held a workshop for 21 directors and director generals from all ten states and the central government, along with representatives from WHO and the International Organization for Migration. Participants reviewed data flow, and used their own health workforce data (collected with support from the Project earlier this year) to practice using data for decision making. An important outcome of this workshop was the decision to create a data collection tool and training materials to assist county health officers in supervising data collection at the health facilities. These tools will help to improve data quality and also build local capacity for sustaining the software.
We are currently planning our development for the next project year (July 2008-June 2009), and we have updated our development roadmaps as a result. This year we are focusing on improving the features available in our human resource information systems, based on requests from the countries that are using the systems.
We are also planning to complete a thorough code review that will result in a more stable release by June 2009. This release will be easier to install and customize; it will include a system administrator’s manual and complete technical documentation. We are also planning to improve support for translating the system into other languages and for exchanging data with other systems.
We are excited about our development plans for this year. We always welcome user suggestions. Feel free to contact us or join the ihris-developers mailing list to keep track of ongoing development.
We are pleased to announce the release of Offline iHRIS version 3.0.1, available for download at the Launchpad hosting site. This release fixes some bugs in version 3.0:
If you have previously downloaded and installed Version 3.0, please remove it using Add/Remove Programs (in the Control Panel) and delete the directory C:\ihris before installing this bug fix.
Offline iHRIS can be installed and run on any computer running Windows XP. It installs a single-user version of both iHRIS Qualify and iHRIS Manage on the computer.
Offline iHRIS 3.0.1 has the following known issues:
These issues will be corrected in Version 3.1, scheduled to be released in July 2008.
The full Release Notes can be downloaded as a README file.
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