“Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at RFOs: Quick-Reference Sheets from the Practical Guide” is a set of concise, action-oriented resources designed to support RFOs to engage with RRA and catalyze action. The one-page Reference Sheets provide a highly distilled summary of each section of the full Practical Guide for Research Funding Organizations, covering: Introduction to the Guide Key activities for embedding RRA Key moments in funding agency research assessment: Establishing funding programs and calls Making funding decisions Setting grant terms and conditions Monitoring and evaluating grants and programs Communicating and engaging with your communities Responsible Research Assessment and its place in the research system To support ease of use, we have uploaded to Zenodo: One consolidated file containing all Quick-Reference Sheets Individual files for each sheet, allowing you to download and share specific topics as needed A series of Informational Briefs are also available at https://sfdora.org/resource/practical-guide-for-rfos-informational-briefs/ The RFO Practical Guide has been developed by DORA in collaboration with the Global Research Council RRA Working Group and Science Europe, and has engaged funders worldwide in five co-creation sessions. We are grateful to all who have contributed to it. The RFO Practical Guide is a sister volume of a similar volume for Research Performing Organizations, which has been created as part of Project TARA, supported by Arcadia. These materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial CC BY-NC. They may be freely used, copied, and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that the source is acknowledged. Cite as: DORA San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. (2026). Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at RFOs: Quick-Reference Sheets from the Practical Guide. DORA. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19615426 This is part of DORA’s toolkit of resources to support academic institutions that are improving their policies and practices. Find other resources in the toolkit here.