Programme status
A programme status such as planned, active, paused or closed is a short word that readers take as a long claim. They infer funding, staffing, delivery and even results from it, though the word asserts none of these on its own. This page sets out what a status assertion records, who may make and change it, how statuses drift away from the programme they describe, and what a funder, auditor or partner needs to see before relying on one.
Record ledger
Programme status · Registry · Ledger head 4520089
- Records registered3446
- Complete provenance, % of records93Normal
- Open corrections15Watch
- Rights holds0Info
Latest records
| NX-R-20740 | Programme status | v2 | 3557271 | Registered |
| NX-P-99526 | Publication | v1 | 9568898 | Registered |
| NX-E-98224 | Evidence record | v2 | 2471930 | Correction open |
| NX-C-85422 | Participation | v1 | 7123058 | Rights hold |
Version history
- v1NEWRegistered with sources
- v2FIXUnit corrected, reason recorded
- v3OPENCorrection requested
Fig.Record ledger. Design wireframe with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record or a live system.
The short answer.
A programme status is a short assertion, such as planned, active, paused or closed, about where a programme stands. Readers infer funding, staffing and results from it, though the word asserts none of these alone. A trustworthy status names its owner, the date it was last attested and the evidence behind it.
People and hazards in World.
For programme status, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, land cover and night lights with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on World; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For programme status, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, land cover and night lights with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on World; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · GDACS · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A · NASA HLS S30Sources and licences
- We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
- ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
- Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
- Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
- Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
- Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
- Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
- Observed (EO): NASA HLS S30 (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026). We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS).
- Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.
Layers and dates
- True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
- Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024
- Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
- Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
- Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
- Enhanced vegetation index, rolling 8 days: MODIS Terra EVI, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
Programme status: how the risk develops.
What a programme state does and does not mean. The dossier below sets out how the risk develops, what is measured, where the data come from, how it is modelled and who decides.
Status outlives its evidence
A status is set at one moment and then left. Staff move, funding lapses or a phase ends, but the record still reads active. Without a review date and a named owner, an unchanged status cannot be told apart from a confirmed one.
Target read as delivery
Registries often hold planned scope beside actual progress. When a design target, a launch announcement or a pilot sits under the same status as an operating service, readers take intention for implementation, and implementation for a verified outcome.
Vocabulary drift
Each partner uses its own words: open, live, ongoing, in delivery. When records are merged without a controlled list and a crosswalk, one status means different things in different rows, and counts across the registry stop being comparable.
Reliance cascades
Funders schedule tranches, partners commit staff and reviewers cite the programme as evidence of capacity, all from the status field. A stale or inflated status therefore travels into budgets, reputations and later audit findings far from where it was entered.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Status attestation | A dated statement by a named owner that a programme's recorded status is still accurate. |
| Status vocabulary | The controlled list of status terms a registry accepts, each with a written definition. |
| IATI activity status | The codelist the International Aid Transparency Initiative uses to report whether an activity is in pipeline, implementation, finalisation or closed. |
What is measured, and how well.
Each indicator carries its unit, its cadence, the kind of source behind it and the evidence label a value would carry. No values are shown: a programme supplies them under its own authority.
| Indicator | Unit | Cadence | Source type | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programme records with a named status owner | share of programme records | quarterly | Registry record audit | OBSERVED |
| Time since last attested status change | days | continuous | Record timestamps | OBSERVED |
| Owner attestation currency | share of records attested within the review cycle | quarterly | Steward attestations | DECLARED |
| Status assertions with linked evidence | share of status assertions | monthly | Evidence link check | OBSERVED |
| Status vocabulary conformance | share of records using the controlled list | monthly | Schema validation | OBSERVED |
| Agreement with funder award records | share of programmes matching the funder's status | annual | Funder grant records | OFFICIAL |
| Planned against reported milestone completion | ratio of reported to planned milestones | per milestone | Programme reports | REPORTED |
| Status changes later reversed or corrected | count per reporting period | quarterly | Correction trail | OBSERVED |
From sources to decisions.
The topic as a computational graph: named sources feed the methods, an evidence review gates the outputs, and the decisions stay with the authorities that hold them.
Fig. 02Nodes carry their type, two metric rows and a state; connectors show what feeds what; dashed frames name the owners; the timeline is the cadence. Design of the pipeline, not a record of a run.
Where the evidence comes from.
Named public datasets and institutional records, each with its licence class. Sources by agreement are used only under their terms and never republished.
| Source | What it gives | Licence class |
|---|---|---|
| IATI Standard and its activity status codelist | Machine-readable programme records from development and humanitarian publishers, with a controlled list of activity states | Open data, licence set by each publisher |
| CORDIS | Project records, participants, dates and reported results for EU-funded research and innovation programmes | Free reuse with attribution under the European Commission reuse policy |
| NIH RePORTER | Award records, project periods and linked publications for United States federally funded research | Public domain |
| UKRI Gateway to Research | Grants, organisations, people and reported outcomes from UK Research and Innovation | Open Government Licence |
| Crossref grant identifiers | Persistent identifiers and metadata deposited by funders for individual awards | Open metadata, no restrictions on reuse |
| Research Activity Identifier (RAiD, ISO 23527) | A persistent identifier and metadata record for a project across its lifetime, linking people, organisations and outputs | Open metadata, terms of each registration agency |
Who decides, and what the evidence serves.
Nexus Registry prepares evidence. The decisions below are taken by the authorities named, under their own rules, and never by the platform.
| Who decides | The question | Evidence this page serves |
|---|---|---|
| Funders' programme officers | Whether to release the next tranche, extend or close an award | Status with its attestation date, linked milestone evidence and agreement with the funder's own award record |
| Programme stewards and boards | When to change a status, and who must confirm the change | Status definitions, the evidence each state requires and the history of earlier changes |
| Internal and external auditors | Whether reported status matched the programme's actual state over the audit period | Time-stamped status history, correction trail and the evidence linked at each change |
| Partner institutions | Whether to commit staff, data or co-funding to a programme | Current status with owner, scope boundaries and the difference between planned and delivered work |
Outputs this topic produces
- A status glossary defining each programme state, what it asserts and what it does not
- Programme record views showing the status owner, the date of last attestation and linked evidence
- A status history for each programme with every change, its author and its stated reason
- Crosswalks between partner status vocabularies and the controlled list
What experts ask about programme states.
- What is the minimum evidence for each state, and who must hold it?
- How can a vocabulary stay stable across institutions, languages and legal systems?
- How should a status separate the existence of a programme from the quality of its work?
- What happens to a status when its evidence lapses, is challenged or is withdrawn?
- How are past states preserved so that history cannot be rewritten?
Why status claims drift.
Status inflation is a well-documented pattern in programme reporting. Organizations describe intentions as commitments, memoranda as agreements and pilots as operations, often without bad faith, because incentives reward visible progress. Each restatement in a press release, slide or directory strips a little more context, until a programme in exploration is cited as active. The drift is compounded when different institutions use the same word for different things.
Records practice counters this with three disciplines: a controlled vocabulary with written definitions, a rule that each state is tied to a named type of evidence, and an append-only history so that every change is dated and attributable. The Registry applies these to its seven published states, from exploration to historical record, set out on programme states.
How states are recorded, and what they cannot show.
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Controlled vocabulary
Each state has a definition and a statement of what it does not mean, kept as a versioned glossary.
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Evidence binding
A state is linked to the record that supports it, such as a constituting decision or a closeout record, with its issuer and date.
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Event history
Changes are recorded as events, so the state on any past date can be reconstructed.
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Limits
A status shows formal standing, not effectiveness, quality or compliance. Evidence held privately can only be described, not shown, so readers rely on the issuer's authority for it.
How it is studied, and what the methods cannot say.
- Data engineering, interoperability and stewardshipSchema-validated ingestion · Persistent identifier reconciliation · Lineage capture in pipelinesApplied here
- Digital identity and public digital systemsIssuer authentication and authority · Contributor disambiguation by the personApplied here
- Cybersecurity and cryptographyTamper-evident record history · Signed exports and releases · Threat modelling of edit pathsApplied here
Questions and answers.
Does an active status mean a programme is delivering results?
Who can change a programme's status?
Why does a status carry a date of last attestation?
How do partner status terms map to the registry's list?
Does an active programme have approved findings?
Can a country listing imply a programme exists there?
What if a recorded state is wrong?
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