Your Project Design Document (PDD) as well as any supporting evidence can be drafted, submitted and reviewed through Certify.
Full support for all protocol and module requirements is dependent on your project’s pathway. Your Registry Operations Manager will discuss the most appropriate approach for your PDD draft during your onboarding.

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Project requirements

Certify consolidates the requirements for your project into a single structured checklist. Requirements are derived from:
  1. The Isometric Standard
  2. The protocol your project will be credited under
  3. Any protocol modules that apply to your project
The governing document that each requirement is derived from is linked from the Certify interface via the link icon: .

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Requirement sections

Requirements are grouped into the following sections, navigated by tabs in the Project Design page:
  1. Project setup
  2. Protocol & monitoring
  3. Environmental & social
  4. Stakeholder input
  5. Pathway specific

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PDD drafting

Follow the steps below to draft and submit your PDD for review.
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Draft responses

Open the response form for each requirement by clicking the disclosure icon: .Responses can be added inline, using rich-text markup features including:
  • Headings
  • Lists
  • Tables
  • Section breaks
  • Hyperlinks
Your responses are saved automatically as you edit.
2

Upload source files

To attach more detailed evidence to a response, click the Upload file button and upload your sources files, for example equipment specifications, contracts, receipts or geospatial information.
3

Track completion

Use the progress bar at the bottom of the Project Design page to track outstanding responses. A blue indicator dot shows any requirements or sections where a response is still required. Clicking the blue dot in the Filter menu will filter all requirements down to those that still require a response.
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Submit for Validation

When all responses have been provided, the Request validation button in the bottom right of the screen will be enabled. You can then submit your PDD draft for review.Isometric will pre-screen your submission and, once all feedback is addressed, send it to the verifier for validation.
5

Address feedback

On review, your responses will either be marked as complete, or issues may be raised by Isometric’s review team or your assigned Verifier. If issues are logged, you will be notified by email with a daily digest.In Certify, responses with an open issue are marked with a red indicator dot. Clicking the red dot in the Filter menu will filter all responses down to those where action is required.After redrafting any responses with an open issue, you should resubmit those responses through the Request review button within the response.
On requesting a review from Isometric or the verifier, your response will be locked and cannot be edited until the review is completed.

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PDD publication

Once the PDD has passed through pre-screen, your Registry Operations Manager will agree any required redactions of sections containing commercially sensitive or personal information, before publishing a copy to Isometric’s registry for the project’s public comment period.

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Product walkthrough

A video walkthrough of the process of drafting and submitting a Project Design Document