biosafety clearing house training workshop for regional advisors

Biosafety Clearing House Training Workshop for Regional Advisors

15 - 27 May 2006Bangkok, Thailand

Introduction to Management Centre

Prakash BistaFred Vogel

Registering Information on BCH

OBJECTIVE

• Understand the Management Centre

• Use the Central Portal to register information into the BCH


How

• Presentation

• Authorized users demo

• Hands-on lab


Institutional Structure

• In the framework of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, two groups of users are considered for interacting with the Biosafety Clearing House:– National Focal Point for the Biosafety Clearing-

House (NFP-BCH)– National Authorized User (NAU)


BCH vs BCH Training Website

BCH Website:

http://bch.biodiv.org

BCH Training Website:

http://bchtraining.biodiv.org

• Training site to help in the learning & understanding.

• Similar to the real website but may have differences due to upgrading.


Management Centre Data entry interface for

registering, updating, deleting or correcting information

Access restricted to the BCH NFPs and other authorized users

Information must be validated by BCH-NFP or the CBD Secretariat

Anyone can register Information made public only

after verification by NFP


Sign-in to Management Centre

Requires a username and password

Use the email address used for registering as a user


Registering new information

• National Contacts

• Laws and regulations

• Decisions and declarations

• Capacity building

• Roster of experts

• Other Resources


Manage information

• Manage Information

• Edit information

• Delete Information

Registering Information on BCHManage Authorized users (only for National Focal Points)

• Manage Authorized Users

• Authorize new user

• Edit user

• Delete user


Manage Authorized Users Demo


Hands-on Lab


Groups

• Group 1 – Brazil

• Group 2 – France

• Group 3 – Spain

• Group 4 – Norway

• Group 5 – Mexico

• Group 6 – Sweden


Users

• 6 Groups of 3:– 2 National Authorized Users (NAUs)

bangkokX.nauN

– 1 BCH-National Focal Point (NFP) gbangkokX.nfp

– All passwords are “bangkok”


Hands-on Lab: Roles

• First user in the row is BCH-NFP, and the rest are NAUs 1 to …

• http://bchtraining.biodiv.org

• NAUs enter fictitious data

• BCH-NFP validates ONE RECORD

• Each user then exchange role so that all can be BCH-NFP


OBJECTIVE

• To learn how to input country information into the BCH

• Case studies follow a related path(e.g., information registered about Contacts

would be further be referenced in another records)


Steps to follow

• Input ONE contact information of a person

• Input ONE Competent National Authority

• Input ONE decision or declaration on LMO using the Contact and CNA as a reference

• Input ONE Risk Assessment

• Input ONE National law or regulation using the reference of an existing CNA


After first info input...

• NFP validates ONE record

• Change roles, repeat point 1 for every member of your group


Review questions

• What are the two groups of users considered for interacting with the bch portal?

• What is the BCH training website, and how do you reach it?• Describe the workflow for registering and approving information on the BCH • Who validates the new information to be made public in the Central Portal?• Who can register new information on the Central Portal? • When is information made public ?• How to sign-in to the Management Centre?• What are Common Formats? Why are them needed?• What is the Thesaurus or Common Vocabulary• What types or categories of information can be registered?• Who can manage Authorized Users for a Party?• How does the NFP know that he / she has some information to review and

validate on the Central Portal?• How does an NAU know the state of the registered information?

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