NARSIS (Natural Resources Information System) is an online projects database, containing project data on all DFID-funded projects with any Natural Resources (NR) and Environment (green and brown) component.

The database was originally set up in 1990 to track projects within DFID's Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy. From this beginning it was expanded to provide detailed information on DFID's NR and Environment projects irrespective of funding source, including: Bilateral Country Programmes, Rural Livelihoods and Engineering Research, ESCOR, Joint Funding Scheme (JFS) and Challenge Funds. It also includes cross-sectoral projects which adopt sustainable livelihoods principles. Further information is available at: www.livelihoods.org.

The database contains over 8,000 records which date from 1990. There is comprehensive coverage of centrally-funded NR research; Bilateral NR (country programmes) and JFS projects. Earlier projects are covered, but not comprehensively. The "brown" environment and relevant Emergency Aid is covered from April 1995.

Information includes text (objectives/purpose, intended and actual outputs, conclusions and recommendations, keywords, and publication and dissemination), codes (all relevant DFID and institute codes, economic sector codes, PIMS marks, file references), financial (total commitment, annual spend, future annual budgets), institutional contacts (project leader, managing institute, associated institutes, overseas collaborators).

NARSIS is available free of charge on the Internet at:
www.narsis.org.