Participatory Action Research
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Item Gobeshona global conference: Participatory research for climate adaptation(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2021-01-29) 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 Participatory research and gender in PRIAs projects: An exploration(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2021-02) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)PRIA has pioneered the concept of Participatory Research (PR) in bringing about social change among the marginalised in India. For three decades, PRIA has not only built capacities of/trained grassroots development workers to incorporate the PR approach in their work, it has used the PR methodology in implementing its own projects. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the application of a gendered approach to using PR in some recent interventions of PRIA. How have the principles and methodology of PR been incorporated into project activities, and were there any PR outcomes in the project? How was people’s knowledge and voice, especially those of women, valued? Did the project entail production of new knowledge, new learnings? Did local actors have a role in production of that knowledge? What use has been made of that knowledge and by whom? The paper begins with a very brief overview of the PR approach and the potential outcomes of adopting this approach. The next section describes the PR methodology and suggestive gendered outcomes in four recent initiatives undertaken by PRIA. The last section summarises the PR outcomes from the four initiatives.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 Inter-Professional dialogue on participatory research and participatory development, April 19-25, 1995(PRIA and ASSWI, 1995-04-19) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA); ASSWIThis report is about a six-day residential dialogue held at PRIA, New Delhi, from April 19 to 25, 1995, bringing together twenty-one social work teachers from sixteen institutions across India. It was organised jointly by PRIA and the Association of Schools of Social Work in India, and the programme traced development thinking in India from colonial resource extraction through the green revolution to the emergence of civil society as a third actor alongside state and market. Sessions moved between conceptual grounding and field testimony, with contributions on urban slum work, panchayati raj, tribal displacement, unorganised labour, women's migration and sustainable development sitting alongside sharper debate on whether social work had earned a distinct professional identity or remained tied to a semi-professional, service-delivery role. Group work threaded through each day, pushing participants toward naming obstacles to participation and imagining how participatory research might enter curricula rather than stay confined to fieldwork electives. The closing sessions turned toward future collaboration between PRIA and the schools of social work.