Participatory Action Research

Nurturing a positive intention in mind for rebuilding a selected community through an improvement initiative requires a great heart. If you are intending to read this book for this purpose, I salute you first. This book has been written to enable a social activist or a development worker like you to drive successful evidence-based community development through a scientific participatory approach engaging the community people effectively with a sense of ownership.

The university students may also find this useful to learn qualitative and participatory action research.

Reading this book will help you:

1. To identify a problem in a community or group for an in-depth evidence generation
2. To review the literature relevant to the problem
3. To develop objectives to deal with the problem
4. To conduct investigation of the problem
5. To develop a model or strategy for solution of the problem
6. To implement the planned strategy and evaluate the outcome
7. To prepare the report with further suggestion