Proposals Due Oct 3, 2024
Background
The Campbell Collaboration Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) evidence synthesis programme is a global research initiative to use rigorous and relevant evidence to inform policy and practice. The programme produces high quality evidence reviews on
- effective interventions to prevent and counter radicalization and violent extremism and their harmful impacts
- tools and strategies used when intervening with individuals radicalizing to violence, or other audiences affected by violent extremism
- approaches to measuring performance and outcomes appropriate for or tailored to CVE
- ways in which CVE connects with and complements other areas of prevention, such as against targeted violence and hate.
About the proposed reviews
We are seeking teams with experience in conducting evidence synthesis and demonstrated ability to complete contracts according to rapid timelines to complete evidence synthesis on:
- Identifying existing primary interventions for cognitive and behavioral radicalization.
The purpose of this Evidence Gap Map (EGM) is to identify the current state of primary interventions that have been subject to some form of evaluation. An EGM allows the identification the evidence-base associated with a wide number of primary interventions, which might not be captured in a systematic review. Please note, a systematic review of secondary and tertiary interventions is ongoing and the focus of this EGM should be solely primary interventions.
- Factors associated with high and low levels of trust in government.
The purpose of this review is to allow a better understanding of trust in government with a focus on understanding factors that will facilitate trust building. Factors may be multi-causal and independent of actions taken by the government.
- The effectiveness of interventions to increase trust in government.
The purpose of this review is to identify effective interventions that can be undertaken by the executive branch of government to increase trust in government.
- Identifying interventions for the countering of transnational organization crime.
The purpose of this Evidence and Gap Map is to identify the available evidence-base for interventions to counter transnational organized crime with a focus on human trafficking, child sexual exploitation and abuse, and human and contraband smuggling. For the purpose of this RFP, human trafficking, to include child trafficking, forced labor, and sex trafficking. Human trafficking is typically through force, fraud, or coercion. Child sexual exploitation & abuse to include, but not limited to, financial sextortion, live streaming, or child abuse organized by transnational criminal organizations. Human smuggling involves the illegal movement of people (consensual and non-consensual) across international borders. Smuggling of contraband, including but not limited to arms, drugs, and materials tied to illegal activities.
Authors should propose titles based on available published literature and existing Campbell Reviews. Proposals should indicate how their proposal builds on existing literature (e.g. by updating) or fills an evidence gap that has been identified by decision-makers and prior systematic reviews. Potential topics can be rescoped as needed based on proposer subject matter expertise and the depth of the topic. For example, proposals may focus on specific sub-populations.
Budget and timeline
Proposals may be submitted for up to USD$68,000. The budget is part of the bid evaluation criteria (see below).
The successful bidders will be announced by Oct 23, 2024 and bidders will receive feedback on their title registration form at this time. Ability to revise the title form based on feedback within 5 days will be considered as a final criterion in awarding the bids. The protocol will be due for submission no later than Jan 15, 2025. The first draft of the review should be submitted to Campbell for editorial assessment and peer review no later than Sept 15, 2025, and the final report approved by Dec 30, 2025. This will require review teams to turn around peer review and editorial feedback revisions within 5-10 days. The review team may propose earlier dates for these deliverables. If teams are unable to submit within these timelines, the contracts may be cancelled.
Bidders who are not successful will be asked if they would like to be informed of future calls.
Campbell will provide a search specialist to run the searches in electronic databases, including registries such as the Global Policing Database (if relevant to the topic). The team will need to design and carry out their own grey literature searches.
Review criteria
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of
- Proposal (30%): This will be evaluated against (i) the team showing a clear understanding of the task; and (ii) innovative suggestions for the conduct of the work including use of tools such as automation and machine learning, as appropriate and iii) completeness and clarity of the title registration form in defining the question and rationale. A bid must receive at least 18 of the 30 points on this criterion to be considered.
- Experience of the team (50%): This will be evaluated against the requirement that the team have experience for both the substantive content of the question and systematic review methods and analysis expertise appropriate to the topic. It will also assess the feasibility of completing work in the timeline above, as indicated by details such as the team’s demonstrated ability to complete funded bids within rapid timelines to high quality standards. A bid must receive at least 30 of the 50 points on this criterion to be considered.
- Budget (20%): This will calculated as [1 – (Bid-Minbid)/68000]x20 where MinBid is the lowest budget from a proposal which meets the minimum technical scores specific in the previous two criteria.
Questions
Questions regarding this RFP can be directed to info@campbellcollaboration.org. Answers to all questions will be posted on www.campbellcollaboration.org .
How to apply
Applications should be sent to info@campbellcollaboration.org by 11.59 PM Eastern Standard Time Oct 3,2024.
Applications should include:
- A statement of the approach to the work (Max 1,500 words)
- A summary of the expertise of the team (Max 1000 words)
- A title registration form using the Campbell template for evidence and gap maps or systematic review (as appropriate to the question)
- Timeline for protocol and review. This must reflect a turn-around of 12 weeks for editorial assessment at protocol and review stage and 4 weeks at title approval stage
- Budget
- CVs of senior team members (any format)