Community-based participatory research (CBPR) aims to co-produce knowledge with marginalised people in order to challenge and transform material, relational and epistemic inequities. People living in urban informal settlements and other marginalised urban groups face multiple spatial, social and economic vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change, including barriers to accessing health promoting services. They often lack opportunities to communicate their needs to and demand rights from health systems planners and providers due to social and political distance, stereotyping and discrimination. Supporting marginalised people to analyse and communicate their own realities, and to promote trusting and respectful communication with governance stakeholders is an important strategy to tackle this exclusion and promote transformative, community-led action for climate resilience and health equity. CBPR encompasses values, processes and tools to facilitate these efforts.
We will create a space for sharing, discussion and practice that aims to:
- Share principles and practical lessons from applications of CBPR drawing on a 5-year programme working with urban marginalised people in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone) and further emergent research on co-producing initiatives to improve health service responsiveness to extreme weather events (Urban SHADE)
- Provide a framework for discussion of experiences of CBPR in diverse contexts, including social, economic political and community characteristics
- Offer opportunities for participants to practice using tools and approaches
After a 10 minute introduction, participants will have the opportunity to join a 25 minute session at one of the three stations (see below) which will run twice simultaneously. In each station, presenters will share their experience of using a CBPR tool in a specific setting. Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences. Presenters will then facilitate a session which practices or discusses using the approach.
· Station 1: Assessing and strengthening governance stakeholder relationships to promote action using Venn diagramming
· Station 2: Approaches for working with very marginalised groups using Photovoice and participatory video.
· Station 3: Using quantitative surveys within CBPR.
