Participatory Action Research for Positive Change
Indoor cooking causes 4 million deaths yearly
worldwide. With 7Senses, local communities in Kampala,
Uganda discovered a solution that instantly reversed
this threat...
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For about 20 years, Saban fishermen saw their redfish
stocks decline; a threat to their income and the marine ecosystem.
With 7Senses they discovered how to turn the tide...
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Create impact yourself by setting up your own
Participatory Action Research project, leading
a multi-disciplinary international team in the field!
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or training about the innovative power of communities
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There’s this famous saying: “Give somebody a fish and he has food for one day. Teach him how to fish and he will have food for his entire life.” But what if that somebody does not like fish, or fishing? Or what if there’s no fish around? What if our fishing style is not working abroad? Or what if it is not culturally appropriate to eat fish?
7Senses’ aim is to empower people worldwide to tackle complex issues together and co-create the world they want to live in. 7Senses’ work -conducting Participatory Action Research worldwide- is focused on facilitating local people and involved stakeholders in co-discovering and developing sustainable solutions to tackle complex issues, using local talent, manpower, materials and abundance. As such, entire communities work together on co-designed, cost-efficient solutions and innovations which truly fit their context and needs!
Through Participatory Action Research, 7Senses accelerates the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Each PAR project indicates to which SDG(s) it contributes.
Participatory Action Research is a form of research that links science and practice. It allows a community of organizational and non-organizational stakeholders to investigate their own situation, reflect on its results and co-create the best fitting interventions to tackle complex problems and achieve sustainable impact.
You can also realize sustainable impact with 7Senses! Follow the 7Senses independent trainings, join the 7Senses Academy or join the 7Senses Challenge!
Participatory Action Research is an approach that bridges science and practice. It combines the best of both in order to boost the transit to a more sustainable world. Our PAR processes empower local communities to tackle the world’s most complex issues with the crowd, leading to unexpected, yet extraordinary effective results.
We train our action researchers in the 7Senses Action Research Academy. After graduation, alumni perform Participatory Action Research in their own jobs, become independent action researcher for 7Senses or develop 7Senses Challenge programs, in the Netherlands or beyond.
Are you facing a complex issue in your community, involving multiple stakeholders? Hire us for Participatory Action Research! Or do you prefer to become an Participatory Action Researcher yourself? Join one of our trainings or book us for an in-company training!
The Agnites Vrolik Award 2018 is an initiative of UtrechtUniversity to reward the one who's (scientific) work has the most impact on society. The prize: €25.000,- to be spent on science. 7Senses Founder Madelon Eelderink is nominated for this award! The...
Gastblog door Geertje Lavrijssen, Challenge Coordinator van de Sustainable Tourism Challenge
Het is tweede kerstdag en we naderen het eind van 2018, een tijd om terug te blikken op het afgelopen jaar en de activiteiten en gebeurtenissen die hebben mogen...
There are only few projects in which stakeholders are involved so prominently in all aspects of the project. And that works so fantastically!”
7Senses contributes to creating paradise on earth!”
The combination of professional and personal development through intensive guidance ánd doing something good for someone else through action research makes the Challenge an unforgettable experience for me.”
Such a simple project with such an enormous impact!”
7Senses is a great initiative and I fully support their ambitions!”
