1. COMMUNITY BASED PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (CBPAR)

2. Terms to Know C.A.B. Stakeholder Gatekeeper Assets Dissemination
Equity
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3. CBPAR
Research that equitably involves community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in ALL aspects of the research process, in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making and responsibilities.

4. AIMS OF CBPAR
To increase knowledge and understanding of a given phenomenon and integrate the knowledge gained with interventions and policy change.

5. PRINCIPLES OF PAR METHOD
AN APPROACH TO STRUCTURED LEARNING BY DOING
INVOLVE THE FOLLOWING STEPS OF ACTIVITIES :
REFLECTION : WHAT IS THE PROBLEM ?
PLANNING : WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THE PROBLEM ?
ACTION : TAKING STEPS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
OBSERVATION : WHAT EFFECT DID THE ACTION HAVE ?
REFLECTION : WHAT NEXT STEPS ?
THE GOAL IS TO EXPERIMENT WITH SOLUTION TO AGREED UPON PROBLEMS AND TO LEARN THROUGH A STRUCTURED, ITERATIVE PROCESS IN WAYS THAT CAN BE COMMUNICATED TO OTHERS

6. CYCLE PROCESS OF PAR ; Monitoring Monitoring Learning Learning Future
New Action
Present
New Action
Observation
decision
Observation
Decision
Intervention

7. 9 Principles of CBPR (Israel, 2003)
Recognizes community as a unit of identity
Builds on strengths and resources within the community
Facilitates a collaboration, equitable partnership in all phases of the research, involves an empowering and power-sharing process that attends to social inequalities
Fosters co-learning and capacity building among all partners
Integrates and achieves a balance between knowledge generation and intervention for mutual benefit of all partners
Focuses on the local relevance of public health problems and ecologic perspectives that recognize and attend to the multiple determinants of health
Involves systems development using a cyclical and iterative process
Disseminates results to all partners and involves them in the discrimination process.
Involves a long-term process and commitment to sustainability