Participatory Action Research

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    Involving communities in planning and assessing the impacts of development programmes: Report on a pacific NGO workshop on participatory approaches to development, Nadi, Fiji, 23–25 June
    (2023-06-23) Quinn, Marion; Clark, Kevin
    This report documents a Pacific NGO workshop on participatory approaches to development held in Fiji in 2003, aimed at strengthening the capacities of civil society organisations to use participatory impact assessment, stakeholder analysis, indicator setting, and community based monitoring in their own contexts. Its central concern is how development can move beyond expert driven models toward processes where primary stakeholders influence decisions, resources, and outcomes. The report covers practical sessions on identifying stakeholders, understanding gender relations, designing meaningful indicators, collecting and analysing data, and using participatory tools such as mapping, ranking, focus groups, seasonal calendars, and time use studies. Through examples from Pacific countries, it shows how communities can define priorities, generate knowledge, and evaluate change on their own terms. This report offers an important lesson that monitoring and evaluation are not merely technical exercises but democratic processes linked to power, voice, and accountability. It demonstrates that when communities participate from the beginning of a project cycle, development interventions become more relevant, more sustainable, and more responsive to local realities.
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    Preparing the next generation of researchers
    (UNESCO Chair, 2020-06-23) Bhatt, Nandita
    This report covers a June 2020 webinar hosted by the K4C Raipur hub, known as Sangwari, part of the Knowledge for Change Global Consortium that Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall established in 2017. The session drew on presentations from hub coordinators, PRSU Vice-Chancellor Keshari Lal Verma, and student researchers, set against the backdrop of COVID-19 and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities. The hub turns to its focus on training the next generation of community-based researchers, holding that integrating community-university engagement into core academic work, rather than treating it as a side activity, is what strengthens a university's social responsibility. The report reviews student-led projects tied to SDG 5, SDG 8, and SDG 17, including a study on antenatal healthcare access among rural women in Chhattisgarh, work on sexual harassment awareness among young female athletes, and a planned study on the pandemic's impact on informal women workers. It closes with remarks from Hall pointing to the hub's use of arts-based methods and local language as a model other K4C hubs can draw from.
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    Regionalizing the UNESCO knowledge for change consortium: K4C at the ESC!
    (UNESCO Chair, 2023-10-05) Mercy, Nkatha
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    Report of the sixth state finance commission of Sikkim: Report for the award period 2025-26 to 2029-30
    (State Finance Commission (SFC), 2023-10) State Finance Commission (SFC)
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    An introduction to the history, theory and practice of participatory action research
    (Department of Politics and International Relations, 2025) Díaz-Arévalo, Juan Mario
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    Beyond partnerships: Embracing complexity to understand and improve research collaboration for global development
    (2021) Fransman, Jude; Hall, Budd L; Hayman, Rachel; Narayanan, Pradeep; Newman, Kate; Tandon, Rajesh
    While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the ‘partnership’ as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for understanding and evaluating collaboration is proposed. This framework is used to reflect on a set of principles for fair and equitable research collaboration that emerged from a programme of strategic research and capacity strengthening conducted by the Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) for the United Kingdom (UK)’s primary research funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The article concludes that a systemic conceptualisation of collaboration is more responsive than a ‘partnership’ approach, both to the principles of fairness and equity and also to uncertain futures.