NIH has expanded the final progress report.  It now resembles the annual RPPR and requires multiple components. Three major differences are that there is a new section (section I) at the end entitled “Outcomes” and the sections “F. Changes”  and “H. Budget” are not required.

The Final RPPR is due no later than 120 calendar days (not 4 months) after the end date of the grant.  The report should be started as soon as the grant has ended.  The Grants Administrator should follow a similar process as for the annual progress report.

How to Initiate

The Principal Investigator or the Signing Official must initiate the final RPPR.

Watch a video tutorial or follow these instructions:

• Login to eRA Commons
• In the header section (in blue) click on “Status”
• Click on “List of Applications/Grants” around midpage
• A list of your grants will appear.  In the far right column under header Action, you will see “Requires Closeout”.  Click on that link.
• In the new page, click on “Initiate”
• You can the route the application to your Grants Administrator

What to Include

Detailed instructions on what to complete for the RPPR are located on the NIH website.

The following sections must be completed.

The elements of the Final RPPR are as follows:

A.   Cover Page*

B.   Accomplishments**

• Major Goals
• What was accomplished
• Competitive Revisions/Administrative Supplements
• Training/professional development***
• Results dissemination
• Plan to do in next reporting period

C.   Products**

• Publications
• Websites
• Technologies or Techniques
• Inventions, patent applications and/or licenses
• Other products and resource sharing

D.   Participants*

• Personnel Report
• Level of Effort
• New Senior/Key Personnel
• Changes in Other Support
• New Other Significant Contributors
• Multiple PI Plan

E.   Impact

• Impact on physical, institutional, or information resources that form infrastructure
• Dollar amount spent in foreign country(ies)

F.    Not Applicable

G.   Special Reporting Requirements

• Special terms or conditions on NOA
• Human Subjects
  • Info on human subjects status
  • Inclusion enrollment report
  • ClinicalTrials.gov
• Human Subjects Education Requirement
• hESCs
• Vertebrate Animals
• Performance sites
• Foreign component
• Estimated unobligated balance
• Program Income
• F&A costs

H.   Not applicable

I. Outcomes (this section will be made publicly available)

*this section is predominantly completed by the Grants Administrator

**this section is predominantly completed by the PI

***this section is for training grants or for reporting on graduate students and postdocs. 

Common mistakes:  While Sutter Health does not frequently have these positions, Universities do.  If there are Universities that are subrecipients, this section may be pertinent to them.