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Major update to the PRA Tool (25 June 2025)

• New-look Home page
• More user-friendly design for 'PRA by Pest'
• Automatic saving
• New pest PRA report

More details of the changes for existing users are included below.

We would really value your feedback on this update. If you would like to respond, please complete this survey.

How do I access the PRA Tool?

This tool uses the same authentication as CABI Digital Library.

Subscriptions may be set up for access by CABI voucher, IP recognition or institution email domain.

Vouchers have been sent to the official IPPC contact point in over 100 NPPOs in lower income countries that are eligible for a free subscription. Please contact the NPPO for the voucher code if you believe this applies to you. 

If you have difficulty obtaining the voucher code for your institution, please contact PRA@cabi.org for assistance.

Logging in for the first time using a voucher code

Please select where you would like to start for the appropriate instructions:

• From the CABI Digital Library:
  CABI Compendium and PRA Tool voucher system login guide (PDF)  

• From the PRA Tool:
  PRA Tool voucher system login guide (PDF)

Already a PRA Tool user before March 2024?

It is important now to Sign in or Sign up to CONNECT with your PRA Tool email address to continue to access your saved PRAs.

With an active subscription, your CONNECT account will also provide access to the CABI Compendium and premium version of the Horizon Scanning Tool.

If you have been using more than one email address for CONNECT or the PRA Tool, you can include those as additional identities in your CONNECT profile (up to 3 only). We advise that you do not to remove email addresses from your Connect account, at least until you have fully logged into the PRA application.

Please go to the PRA Tool home page to Sign in. You may be asked to enter your institution's voucher code if you have not done that before.

Need support to access the PRA Tool?

This tool is designed for a desktop computer. Please ensure you are using an up to date browser and have pop-ups enabled. You may need to check in your spam and junk folders if you are not receiving emails for account verification and team invitations. If you have checked these and still need help, please click on the Support button on the tool pages or contact PRA@cabi.org.

User guides for the PRA Tool

Getting started

Tips and quick summary of changes in Jun 2025:

Home page

• Click on CABI PRA Tool top left to access the Home page from anywhere else in the tool
• PRA list now provides more information about your saved PRAs if you expand the row
• Access your PRA profile (formerly My CABI) by clicking on your username top right
• Create New Team from the Home page but view My Teams by clicking on your username. Here you can invite new members, leave the team and also hide/unhide teams from your Home page. As previously, remember to start a PRA in a team and not your Personal view if you wish the share it with colleagues.

PRA by Pest

• Complete Initiation and Risk Assesment in smaller steps with automatic saving of your data
• Expand and collapse PRA sections to control how much detail you see on each page. Text icons indicate where data has been saved
• Import Identity data from the Compendium datasheet into structured fields which remain editable. Older PRAs will show these as empty, but you could re-import or move the content you saved previously if you wish
• Use new radio buttons to conclude Categorization more clearly
• Assess individual pathways of entry and then provide an overall rating for Probability of Entry. This has been added to help you summarise the overall level of risk if you are using a risk matrix or other risk scoring system
• Most of the risk assessment questions remain the same but the Potential Consequences section has been re-organised
• When selecting Risk Management options for plant product pathways, you now have the option to select the intervention points that are already used in 'PRA by Pathway' 
• Save & Close a PRA and the tool will remember which page you were editing when you next open it
• Download your PRA in a new Word report format. We will be gathering feedback on the report style. Please use the Navigation view in Word to move around the document
• We have removed the HTML view of the full pest PRA report. Note that the section summaries now show the data that has been entered at each PRA stage
• It is no longer possible to Export the asssessment to edit in Word for offline working. We are assessing whether this is still required

The following guides are currently being updated and screen shots no longer reflect all the pages you see. However as the steps in the PRA workflow have not essentially changed, you may still find some useful information.

Pathway-initiated PRA guide

Pest-initiated PRA guide

Pest-initiated PRA illustration (developed for demonstration purposes only): Risk of introduction of red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) to Ghana .

New PRA training materials coming soon

The following materials were developed before the recent update. New versions are under development.

CABI Compendium datasheets for PRA (Powerpoint) Video (17 mins)

The Horizon Scanning Tool for Pest Prioritization (Powerpoint)

Introduction to the PRA Tool (Powerpoint) Video (13 mins)

Conducting a pathway-initiated PRA (Powerpoint) Video (38 mins)

Conducting a pest-initiated PRA (Powerpoint) Video (17 mins)

General guidance on assessing risk (Powerpoint)

Creating a team in the PRA Tool (Powerpoint)

Working offline from the PRA Tool (Powerpoint)

Risk assessment and risk management options available in the PRA Tool / Formulaire de ARP questions l’évaluation du risque et d’options de gestions (PDF)

For queries and feedback about this tool, please contact PRA@cabi.org.

For further guidance on the PRA process, please refer to the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures developed by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), in particular ISPM 2 and ISPM 11.

Additional training materials are available from the Resources page.

Summary of recent updates to the PRA Tool

• June 2025: New design for Home page and pest-initiated PRAs (editing offline in Word for this PRA type is not currently available). Pathway and Live import PRAs remain unchanged.
• March 2024: User accounts and login moved to CABI Digital Library CONNECT.