In August 2021, the World Health Organization developed the first web-based equipment Inventory and Gap Analysis (IGA 1.0) application to help ease the burden on countries for collecting and analyzing equipment inventory data.
The web-based software has a complete functionality, is open-source and can be installed in any Microsoft®-supported server. IGA has a complementary mobile application that can run in any Android® supported smart phones and tablets and can be used to enter data, which can be processed using the web based IGA application. IGA is designed to be used in any country, for any programme and can be translated to any languages.
IGA has two levels of users: admin and user levels. The admin group (staff who has knowledge of the country and the programme) has access to software configuration and settings. Therefore, the admin group can configure and adjust the settings of the application to address the country- and programme-specific needs and situation. Users have no access to configuration and settings and have limited and customized access to the application. IGA is currently available in English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic languages. It can be easily translated to any other languages.
IGA has several built-in reports and has a mapping function. The reports have multiple filters to estimate gaps at different administrative levels and for individual or for all facilities based on the criteria set by the software administrator. In addition, all data can easily be exported to MS Excel® sheets for more detailed facility segmentation and equipment analysis. IGA also has an option to estimate future gaps and requirements - for at least five years from the time of data collection - to support planning.
IGA is recommended for collecting and analyzing inventory of equipment and other non-consumable assets such as cold chain equipment, transport vehicles, temperature monitoring devices, power generators, computers and printers, incinerators, autoclaves, electrical equipment such as voltage regulator, and other auxiliary devices.
Georgia is the first country to use IGA for collecting equipment inventory data from all facilities in all administrative levels.
The test version for demo site is by using the following URL: www.inventory-gapanalysis.c om
Username: admin
Password: 123
The mobile application (only for Android) can be downloaded from: http://www.inventory-gapAnalysis.com/mb/IGAS_2.7_GEO.apk
For any question or support, contact Mojtaba Haghgou ([email protected]) or Maricel Castro ([email protected])
This is a wonderful tool.
I have two questions,
1. When will training be conducted for cold chain managers on the installation and use?
2. Can the data captured with the WHO excel-based CCE Inventory and Gaps Analysis tool be imported into the new platform?
Thanks
Abdulhafeez Mustapha
UNICEF-Nigeria
Hi Abdulhafeez.
Thank you for your questions. To answer your first question, we are planning to conduct an orientation on IGA soon. It will be announced in TechNet, please watch out.
With regards to your second question, currenty IGA tool is not yet completely interoperable with the older Excel-based WHO CCEI and gap analysis tool. Work is on-going to allow full harmonization so that data from the old tool can be easily imported to the new tool. We will update you guys once this is done.
Have a good day.
Maricel
Dear Maricel
Thank you for this interesting tool.
The 2021 CCE Gap Analysis Tool version includes a tab for PQEqpt (WHO PQS Prequalified equipment) that contains much of the product information for specific equipment that is developed when that equipment undergoes prequalification PQS protocols. The tool (2019, 2021) took it a step further by combining this info into energy consumption indicators based on volumes (e.g. daily watt hour per net liters of vaccine storage and/or per liters (kg) of water pack freezing capacity).
This is a useful approach to compare the electricity consumption of mains powered appliances on a fair basis since all prequaified appliances must pass the same rigor where both their volume(s) and electrcity consumption is established through identical protocols carried out at WHO accredited test labs.
I recommend that this same set of indicators be continually supported by WHO in order for stakeholders to have one more way to consider environmental impacts of cold chain equipment selections.
Respectfully submitted
Steve McCarney
Sunny Day LLC
Dear colleagues,
Thank you all for the positive feedback and for sharing ideas on how we can make the tool more useful and practical for country use.
Please note that we are working on improving the tool user-friendliness and adaptibility to user-country context. We also noted the good suggestions from Steve, which we will consider in the next updates. As a heads up, we are also working to have a supplemental functionality to support planning for and implementing preventive maintenance of CCEs.
We will let you know once the new/added features are ready and we will walk you through them.
If you know of a country that is considering to use this tool and need some guidance/support please dont hesitate to contact us.
All the best,
Maricel
When clicking on the hyperlink http://www.inventory-gapanalysis.com/ I receive an error "Server not found", is this web page still available? Thank you.
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies, the old link doesn't work anymore.
The IGA has gone trhough few version update. If you wanted to access the Demo Site for the latest IGA version 4.0. here is the link and the access: https://iga4.invgap.org Username: admin. Password: 2W@#er#>@ (both are case sensitive).
Thanks for the effort. From the link you sent I can only download the Excel tool while I would like to obtain access to the web-based tool and the Android app from the www.inventory-gapanalysis.com website (which is not working).
Thanks a lot for providing the updated credentials so quickly but I still fail to login ("Login failed"). I tried typing and copy/pasting the email and with two different web browsers.
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies, the old link doesn't work anymore. The IGA has gone through few version updates. If you wanted to access the Demo Site for the latest IGA version 4.0. here is the link and the access:
Username: admin
Password: 2W@#er#@
Both are case sensitive.
We are happy to receive any feedback.
Best,
Maricel
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for the late reply. These are the correct link and login details:
DEMO SITE:
Username: admin
Password: phipass3
Best,
Maricel
IGA Demo site is still showing log-in failed. I tried both passwords (phipass3 and 123) but all failed
Hi Maricel,
It seems that below credentials are not working anymore:
Username: admin
Password: phipass3
Would you please share the new ones please ?
Thank you!
Richard (from the mSupply Foundation)
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for the inconvinience. We have to change the password at times. Please use the current credentials as follows:
DEMO SITE:
IGA Demo site:
Username: admin
Password: iga4@admin>
* Both username and password are case-sensitive
Should you have a problem accessing please feel free to contact me ([email protected]) with copy to Mojtaba Haghgou <[email protected]>.
Best,
Maricel
Hello,
It appears that the credentials provided earlier are no longer valid. Could you please share the updated credentials? Thank you!
Dear colleagues,
Please use the following credentials:
Username: admin (case sensitive)
Password: demo@iga4> (case sensitive)
In case you still unable to access the demo site with this credentials, please let us know.
Kind regards,
Maricel
Hello,
Thank you for your response.
The platform link is not working. I tried an old link that I found above and it worked then I attempted to use the updated credentials, but I am still unable to log in to the platform.
Regards,
The correct link is https://iga4.invgap.org/
User name: admin
Password: demo@iga (no ">" at the end)
Your friends at the mSupply Foundation
"The correct link is https://iga4.invgap.org/
User name: admin
Password: demo@iga (no ">" at the end)
Your friends at the mSupply Foundation"
The password appears to have changed to demo@iga4
Dear Adam Dewey
With the support of USAID/Chemonics and with the platform of mSupply, we want to implement a WMS in our warehouse of vaccines, diluents, syringes and all the medicines that the MOH of Colombia storage. I welcome the opportunity for you to help us achieve this goal as soon as possible.
I'm sure this experience for a population of 52 millions in Colombia will be a good topic to share with the TechNet community.
Thanks in advance
Dear Rafael,
We would be very happy to assist you with your proposed WMS implementation for the vaccine warehouse - I previously oversaw the implementation of mSupply at MSPS Bodega Central in Bogotá in 2022 in conjunction with USAID/Chemonics and so I am familiar with the country and the MOH.
It would be fantastic to be able to help further strengthen the immunization health system in Colombia.
And I agree with you, it would be a very good opportunity for a future TechNet topic!
Could you please contact me at [email protected] and we can discuss the situation in more detail.
Many thanks,
Adam
Hello WHO team -
It appears that the previous credentials (admin / demo@iga4) are no longer working on https://demo.invgap.com. Can you please provide updated credentials to the demo site? Thank you!
Hello all -
As quick update, I want to report that I was able to login to demo.invgap.org today using credentials "admin" / "demo@iga4". My previous message included an incorrect URL (using .com instead of .org), which leads to nowhere. My apologies for any confusion.
Dear Maricel or Mojtaba,
In the original post on this thread you state that the IGA tool is open-source.
We have been searching for the code base so that we can invesitgate integration possibilities, but can't find it. Can you please post a link to the code or a description of how to obtain it, which has to be available for you to call it an open source system.
With thanks,
Craig Drown
mSupply Foundation
Dear WHO IGA team -
I'm working on CCE data interoperability efforts in a country that is currently adopting IGA. Our country partners have indicated strong interest in integrating CCE monitoring data with IGA to improve the freshness and utility of the inventory data. This is an exciting opportunity, which is well aligned with ecosystem trends towards great system interoperability and automation. Will you please share API documentation for IGA, plus a URL to the IGA open-source code repository? These assets will be critical in helping our country partners achieve their objectives.
Thank you in advance for your response!
Warmest regards,
Benson Miller
New Horizons
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