Campbell, Cochrane South Asia, and the Department of Health Research, Government of India is holding a free half-day event in New Delhi to discuss the evidence generation process conducted by these organisations. The use of evidence to support policy debates and decisions in India, and for creating a culture of ‘evidence-based policy’ in addressing various social, medical and public health challenges, will also be addressed at the event, which is open to all.
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To be held in New Delhi, 5-7 July 2017, this workshop will present the scientific principles, methods, analysis, and reporting standards that guide the process of conducting systematic reviews and meta-analysis in social sciences. Participants will also work in groups to produce titles for registration with the Campbell Collaboration.
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Howard White, CEO of the Campbell Collaboration, was recently interviewed by Andy Feldman at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC. Part 1 of the interview on useful principles for evidence-based policy and practice presented four principles: 1. Use the right evidence to answer the right question, 2. Don’t rely on single studies, 3. Context matters for transferring evidence, and 4. Evidence-based policy is not a blueprint (aka cookie cutter) approach.
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The Campbell Collaboration seeks junior consultants from low- and middle-income countries to assist in screening and coding studies for systematic reviews.Training and guidance will be provided. We are also seeking writers of Campbell Plain Language Summaries.Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Available work will be sourced to the pool of registered consultant as work becomes available.
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Face-to-face Restorative Justice Conferences (RJCs) are cost-effective in reducing reoffending and increasing victim satisfaction. Compared with standard criminal justice,usually through the courts, face-to-face RJCs reduce the frequency of subsequent crimes among offenders.
Effective multi-component classroom management programmes seem to improve student behaviour in the classroom but further research is needed. Effective classroom management is a preventive approach which establishes a positive classroom environment in which the teacher focuses on appropriate student behaviour.
Drug Courts monitor drug-involved offenders’ abstinence from drug use through frequent drug testing and compliance with drug treatment programs. These courts are effective in reducing future offending and drug use (recidivism) for adults, but not for juveniles.
Teen pregnancy prevention programs are mostly ineffective. Multi-component programs may work. Teen pregnancy prevention programs aim to reduce teenage pregnancy by promoting abstinence and using contraception.
‘Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review' by Cyrus Samii, Matthew Lisiecki, Parashar Kulkarni, Laura Paler, and Larry Chavis.
In honor of World Environment Day on June 5th we are featuring our review studying the effects of programmes for reducing deforestation. Forests store carbon, which helps mitigate the effect of carbon emissions. However, the amount of forest cover is declining at a rate of over seven million hectares a year. Payment for environmental services (PES) are voluntary contracts to supply an environmental service in exchange for payment. In this review, the service is the maintenance or rehabilitation of natural forests.
The review examines how these programmes affect deforestation, factors affecting programme effectiveness, and whether PES should also aim to reduce poverty. The authors conclude that payment for environmental services programmes have only modest effects on deforestation and are not cost-effective. PES programmes are more likely to attract wealthier farmers, and are less effective in poor areas.
