Knowledge Democracy / Participatory Research

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Welcome to the Knowledge Democracy / Participatory Research Community. This community serves as a comprehensive repository of resources on participatory approaches, community-based research, and collaborative inquiry methods. Our mission is to foster knowledge sharing and support initiatives that empower communities to contribute to research, ensuring their voices shape the knowledge that impacts their lives.

Explore a wealth of materials, including case studies, policy papers, training guides, and research publications that highlight the practice and principles of participatory research worldwide.

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    Despite knowledge democracy and community-based participatory action research: Voices from the global south and excluded north still missing
    (Sage Publications, 2015) Openjuru, George Ladaah; Jaitli, Namrata; Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd L
    The primary purpose for this special issue of Action Research Journal (ARJ) focusing on knowledge democracy, community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) was to draw attention to and raise debate about knowledge exclusion of and alternative forms of knowing in the global South as well as to bring to the fore the perspective of authors from the global South. We understand the global South to include the excluded epistemologies from the global North such as Indigenous Researchers from the First Nations People from Canada. Reflecting on the 12 submissions that were made for this special issue reveals how even within supportive knowledge and research paradigms that are meant to promote marginalized scholarships, the global South and excluded North still remains excluded.
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    Participation: Building perspectives
    (PRIA, 2000) Jaitli, Namrata
    This paper by Dr. Namrata Jaitli examines the concept of participation in development discourse. She identifies four broad interpretations of participation as contribution, organisation, empowerment, and in a project framework. The paper also divides the functions of participation into instrumental, political, and psychological. It further highlights the debates about the nature of participation, deeming them important for development practitioners and policymakers. Jaitli expands on factors that influence participation such as structure, society, operations, community organization, participatory mechanisms, and psychological factors, while also acknowledging some of its obstacles. The paper ends with a cost and benefit analysis of participation, noting that while participatory processes can improve project quality, effectiveness, and sustainability, they also incur costs like relinquishing control, supervision, and time burdens.

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