What needs to be disclosed
An author, reviewer or contributor should identify relationships that could reasonably affect the work. Examples include employment by an organisation being assessed, consulting work, financial support, a close personal relationship, a competing project or a role in the proposed implementation.
Relevant expertise is useful, but it does not remove the need to explain an interest. Disclosure helps readers understand the scope and limits of a contribution.
Make the declaration specific
State the relevant relationship, the work it concerns and the role the person would perform. Record whether the person has declared no relevant interest, disclosed an interest, had the role limited or stepped away from the review.
Do not publish private account records, home addresses or unrelated personal information as a way to demonstrate transparency. The public explanation should contain only what is needed to understand the relevant interest.
Assign and manage the review
Consider the reviewer’s expertise, knowledge of the place, available time and relevant relationships. A person who designed, funded or delivered a project can explain it, but that contribution is different from an independent evaluation of its success.
Where a conflict could affect a decision, seek a suitable reviewer without that conflict, limit the person’s decision-making role or record why the work cannot yet receive an independent-review label. Declaring a conflict does not automatically resolve it.
Keep funding and partnerships separate from conclusions
Support must not purchase favourable findings, evidence labels, ratings, rankings, the omission of criticism or the suppression of a correction. A partnership must not turn a project announcement into proof of effectiveness.
Disclose a relevant support relationship beside the affected material. Review methods and results on their merits, including costs, harms and missing evidence.
Keep a decision record
Record the declaration date, the material reviewed, the relevant relationship, the management action and the person responsible for the decision. Revisit the record when a relationship or the work changes.
The current independently operated website does not claim that an external conflict committee or automated reviewer-assignment system is already running. Information Required: named review owners, an independent escalation arrangement and a maintained declaration register for the final service.
Raise a concern
Email support@indiafortomorrow.com with the page URL and the relationship or decision that concerns you. Include a reliable source if available. Describe the relevant issue without making an unsupported allegation or forwarding unnecessary private records.