MERIT User Guide Appendix B Overview of Project Shells

MERIT User Guide V3

Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Tool

USER GUIDE

FOR NRM FUNDING RECIPIENTS

AND THE PUBLIC

Appendix B: Overview of project shells

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APPENDIX B: Overview of project shells

Each project shell in MERIT consists of the following tabs:

Tab / Function
Overview / This tab can be viewed by anyone who visits MERIT without logging in. It displays project information sourced from the Department’s grant management system and the funding application form. Funding recipients can also add a project blog (including news and events, project stories and photos), sound bytes and videos (see 10. Uploading documents and media and 12. Create or edit project blog).
Documents / Documents can be made public or viewable only by project members. Refer to 10. Uploading documents and media.
MERI Plan / The public can view this tab for all National Landcare Programme Regional Funding projects. Administrators can edit the MERI Plan (see 5. Create / edit a project MERI plan).
Activities / This tab displays a list of planned project activities based on the project MERI plan and/or grant application form. Total project output targets and risks & threats for the project are also listed (5. Create / edit a project MERI plan).
Sites / Users can create, view, edit sites and points of interest for their project. See 7. Add a site to a project and 8. Add points of interest to a site for guidance.
Dashboard (project) / This is a visual representation of data using graphs and tables to show the number of outputs the project will deliver and the progress the project has made toward these outputs (see 5. Create / edit a project MERI plan).
Admin / For administrators only. Clicking this tab reveals several sub-tabs, listed below.
Sub-tab / Function (administrators):
MERI Plan / add and update information appearing in the MERI Plan tab.
Project announcements / provide details on key upcoming events and announcements, and invite the Australian Government to participate in launches, communication and media opportunities related to the project. Project announcements can only be made if a MERI Plan has been approved by the grant manager.
Edit project blog / edit news and events, project stories and photos. The project blog is displayed on the Overview tab. Editing is most efficient on the Overview tab.
Project access / add, remove or edit project members for a project.
Species of interest / create a species list for a project. This function aims to reduce the list of candidate species, in the species look-up function on forms, to only those that are applicable to the project.
Documents / attach documents (Word, Excel, PDFs), sound bytes, videos and photos to a project. Administrators can nominate if the document/photo is publicly available on the Project Overview page. Photos nominated as the “main project image” will display more prominently on the Overview Page.
NB: Photos containing sensitive information (e.g. people) must not be made publicly available unless you have permission to do so.