Creating a new project

Note: To show your project portfolio online, your organisation first needs to have a signed contract with Akvo. Administrators (see: Roles & permissions) from contracted partners can add, edit and publish new projects.

From the My projects page, where you manage your projects and see an overview of all projects that are linked to you and your organisation, you can create a new project by first clicking ‘Create new project’.

There are two options when creating a new project: ‘Stand Alone’ and ‘Contributing’.

Simply put a ‘Stand alone’ project is one that is not part of a program hierarchy; it will not inherit a core results framework for a lead project.

A ‘Contributing’ project is part of program and will inherit the core results framework.

To create your new project you will use the Project Editor, filling in all required information in each section.

Before proceeding to fill in details about your project, you first choose the appropriate ‘validation set’. For example, when you want your projects to meet IATI reporting requirements, you select one of the IATI validation sets.

The project information that you need to fill in is divided into sections. As you fill in each section, the green checkmarks indicate that all required fields for that section have been correctly entered. Required fields are indicated by a red outline on the particular field along with a text prompt letting you know how many more required fields remain for that section.

The RSR project editor has an auto-save feature. Every few seconds, as you’re updating new information, the system automatically saves new data.

To be able to publish a project to RSR site, the complete set of mandatory fields (i.e. all sections) for the selected validation set need to be populated.