PRMS does not maintain its own lists of CGIAR institutions, centers, countries, or indicators. Instead, every dropdown and catalog in PRMS that involves these entities draws from CLARISA — the authoritative master data registry for the CGIAR portfolio. When you select a partner organization, a lead center, a country, or an SDG target in PRMS, the list you see came from CLARISA.Documentation Index
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What CLARISA is
CLARISA (CGIAR List of International Research Institutions for Sustainability and Assessment) is the shared reference catalog that the entire CGIAR system uses to identify and describe its organizations and research entities. It is maintained independently of PRMS, by CGIAR system administrators. PRMS is a read-only consumer of CLARISA. It never modifies CLARISA data — it only reads from it.What data CLARISA provides to PRMS
PRMS syncs the following catalogs from CLARISA:Institutions and centers
The full list of CGIAR Centers and partner institutions (NGOs, universities, government bodies, and more), each with their type, headquarters country, and website.
Initiatives and portfolios
The OneCGIAR Initiatives and sub-portfolios, used to assign results to the correct organizational unit and to filter reporting by initiative.
Countries and regions
ISO-coded countries and UN/CGIAR regions, used when you specify the geographic scope of a result — from a single country to a global reach.
SDGs and SDG targets
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their detailed targets, used to link results to the UN 2030 Agenda.
Impact areas and indicators
CGIAR impact areas (Nutrition, Poverty, Gender, Climate, Environment, Water) and the quantitative indicators that measure contributions to each.
Action areas and outcomes
Action area frameworks and their associated outcome statements, used for results that contribute to CGIAR system-level action areas.
Innovation types and readiness levels
Standardized classification schemes for innovation development and innovation package results.
Geographic scopes and policy types
Controlled vocabularies for geographic scope, policy stages, and study types used across multiple result types.
How the sync works
PRMS keeps a local copy of all CLARISA catalogs in its own database. A background sync job runs every 8 hours and pulls the latest data from CLARISA. Higher-priority catalogs — the ones most likely to change during an active reporting phase — are also refreshed every hour. This means:- You do not need to wait for a real-time connection to CLARISA each time you open a form. Catalog dropdowns load from PRMS’s local cache, which is kept current automatically.
- Changes made in CLARISA (a new institution is registered, a center’s name is updated) appear in PRMS within the next sync window — typically within an hour for high-priority data, and within 8 hours for the rest.
Sync jobs run automatically in production. You do not need to trigger them manually under normal operation. Admins can initiate a manual sync from the admin panel if time-sensitive updates are needed.
What this means when you use PRMS
When you are filling out a result, the selections available to you in partner, center, country, region, and indicator fields reflect the current CLARISA catalog. Specifically:- Adding a contributing partner — the institution list comes from CLARISA’s full institution registry.
- Selecting a lead or contributing center — the center list reflects the active CGIAR Centers registered in CLARISA.
- Choosing a geographic scope — countries and regions are the ISO-coded CLARISA country and UN/CGIAR region catalogs.
- Tagging an SDG — the goals and targets come directly from the CLARISA SDG catalog.
- Selecting an impact area indicator — the indicators and their targets are sourced from CLARISA’s impact area indicator registry.