Participatory Action Research
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Item Training on participatory research methodologies. September 18-22, 2017(2017-09-22) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)Item Advancing environmental health science research and translation in India through community based participatory research (CBPR) workshop February 26th -28th, 2019(2019-02-28) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA); College of Public HealthItem Lived realities of women sanitation workers in india insights from a participatory research conducted in three cities of India(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2019-06) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)This paper is about the everyday lives of women sanitation workers in Ajmer, Jhansi and Muzaffarpur, drawn from a 2018 participatory study of 206 women conducted under PRIA's Engaged Citizens Responsive City initiative. The paper traces how poverty, caste and gender intersect in the accounts gathered, alongside a fourth thread - the role education, or its absence, plays in keeping these women locked into sanitation work across generations. Interviews, focus group discussions, shadowing exercises and daily logs shaped the research, and the paper stays close to the women's own words rather than smoothing them into policy language. It documents that contractual and outsourced workers earn far less than permanent staff for the same labour, often without safety gear, payslips or basic awareness of laws meant to protect them. It records how discrimination based on touch continues in subtler, everyday forms. The paper closes with recommendations for government bodies and civil society, covering wage parity, grievance redress and community-level steps toward recognition and dignity.Item Certificate in international perspectives in participatory research instructional guidelines(PRIA & UVic, 2013) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA); University of VictoriaItem Workshop report teaching of participatory research, 4-5 August 2005(2005-08) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)Item Second national inter professional dialogue on participaroty development and participatory research, April 18-24, 1997(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) and Association of Schools of Social Work in India (ASSWI), 1997-04) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)The Second National Inter-Professional Dialogue on Participatory Development and Participatory Research took place at PRIA, New Delhi, from April 18-24, 1997, organised in part the Association of Schools of Social Work in India. Eighteen social work teachers from across the country attended as a residential cohort alongside senior practitioners and researchers serving as resource persons. The programme built upon a dialogue held in 1995 and aimed to develop conceptual clarity on participatory research and development while working out their implications for social work education. The sessions traced the history of development approaches and social work education in India, examined participatory research's evolution since the 1970s, and compared it with conventional social work research. Speakers including Rajesh Tandon, T K Oommen, Binoy Acharya, Sheela Patel, and Joe Madiath addressed governance, urban and rural participation, and global donor policy. A field visit to Panchayati Raj sites in Haryana grounded these discussions in practice. Three PRIA-funded research projects were presented and analysed. Closing group work produced consolidated reports on curriculum reform and issue-specific action plans drawn from the week's case studies.Item Participatory training: Philosophy and perspective(0000) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)The paper examines the assumptions underlying participatory training as a response to systems of inequality that concentrate power and control over the minds of ordinary people. Education, media and institutional knowledge production have historically devalued popular knowledge and eroded the self-confidence of ordinary people to think, act and transform their own realities. The paper proposes a set of guiding beliefs, termed articles of faith, centred on the capacity of ordinary people to learn, change and grow, as the basis for translating these ideas into practice. Conditions required for this translation include respecting learners and their experience, creating structured opportunities for sharing and critical reflection, strengthening self-esteem, and establishing mutuality between learner and trainer within a learner-centred and learner-controlled process. Training is presented as an ongoing, long-term intervention rather than an isolated event, directed toward generating new knowledge and countering hegemonic control. The paper closes by stating that trainers must first clarify their own assessment of reality, their vision of a better world, and their guiding articles of faith before designing training programmes.Item Participatory Research Network in Asia(1980) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)Item Participatory research: An introduction(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 1982) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)This book is about participatory research, put together by the Participatory Research Network and published in 1982 by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA). It frames participatory research as three processes that cannot really be separated in practice, collective investigation, and collective analysis and action. Its roots draw from several places at once- adult education, anthropology, action research, and Paulo Freire's idea of conscientization. A large section covers methods used in the field, group discussions, public meetings, open-ended surveys, community seminars, popular theatre, and educational camps, grounded in real examples such as grain storage in Tanzania, a women's cooperative in South Korea, and sewage problems on a Canadian reserve. Four longer case studies follow, from Appalachia, Tanzania, Chile, and India, each raising doubts about whether the approach can move beyond reform or truly shift control to local people. The book closes with unresolved tensions around funding and training, and a set of poems that place the work within a wider international struggle.Item Revitalizing the teaching of participatory research in social sciences(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2005-03) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)The report is based on several years of PRIA's experiences of working together with academic institutions. It began in 1994 with PRIA's collaboration with Association of Schools of Social Work in India (ASSWI). A series of inter- professional dialogues at national and regional level were organized to provide opportunities for social work educators, renowned academicians and experienced practitioners of participatory development (PD) and participatory research (PR) to come on a common platform and assess implications of the concepts in social work education and practice. Building on the lessons of the five-year collaboration (1994-1999), PRIA and ASSWI initiated a new phase of joint collaborative intervention in the year 2000 for strengthening the ideas of participation, democratic governance and citizenship. The need for the same was felt as the issues of democratic governance and citizenship gained significance in development debates and interventions. To effectively plan and implement this intervention, a strategy to strengthen five social work education institutions as Regional Nodal Centres (RNCs) was mutually agreed by PRIA and ASSWI. Institutions Identified to Work as RNCS were: Stella Maris Collage of social Work, Chenai; College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai; Department of Social Work, Andhra University, Visakhapatnem; School of Social work, Lucknow University, Lucknow; Department of Social Work, Viswa-Bharati, Santiniketan. Besides working with ASSWI, PRIA also carried out a collaborative project with Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi to help the faculties and students get conceptual orientation and field exposure in PR. An outcome of this intervention was introduction of the course on Participatory Sociology at postgraduate level. With PRIA's new strategic plan Governance Where People Matter "coming into operation in 2003, the academic Linkage porgrame has made concerted effort to reach out to social science faculties in Indian universities. During this period we hosted seminars in universities (Mysore University, Mysore; Osmania University, Hyderabad; Punjab University, Chandigarh) on participatory research and conducted an exhaustive mapping exercise of the teaching of PR in academic institutions. This synthesis report draws from 1) Earlier experiences and lessons gathered from working with ASSWI and Jamia Milia; 2) Discussions during seminars and lectures; 3) Independent discussion with social science faculty members in various universities; 4) Results of mapping of PR teaching; 5) Key note address given by Dr. RajeshTandon on "Should Participatory Research be Taught in a University?" (23 September 2003, Mysore University, Mysore) and key note address given by Dr. Ranjita Mohanty on "Participatory Research and the Agenda of Social Transformation" (29 August 2003, Punjab University, Chandigarh)