Community Based Participatory Action Research

Community Based Participation Action Research

What it is

Community Based Participatory Action Research attempts to conduct such research whose process includes the participation of those people of a community who get affected by the issue. This participation can be on several different levels, such as direct gathering of data from community members, done by government or academic institutes; hiring of community members by researchers to collect data; and recruitment of affected community members who would be considered as partners in the research. The basic idea is the relevancy of research direction, validity of data, investigative research and effective use ...