Participatory Action Research for Positive Change
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 plaatsvinden...
Gastblog van Bas Rosenbrand Soms komen de antwoorden gewoon op je pad. In dit geval was het antwoord: Madelon en actieonderzoek. Het begon vorig jaar, toen we landelijke en lokale verkiezingen hadden. Ik stem meestal niet. Niet omdat ik tegen...
By Carine Rozema and Laetitia Simorangkir It has been a while, but even though we are back in the Netherlands for four weeks already, we are still thinking about our adventure on a daily base. In this blog a...
Getting started week 1 & 2: I thought it is time to give you all an update on how the Sustainable Tourism Challenge has been going so far! Time is flying by and we are already halfway down the...
By Carine Rozema For me personally, adolescents are the people that I love working with the most. These young individuals are the future. The ones that will rise up and take their place in society within the next couple...
By Irmarie Luijk-de Visser. Only two weeks left. Wait, what?! When I became aware of the fact that there were only two weeks left to complete our research, I suddenly felt that we hadn’t come far at all. I thought...
In early 2017, the researchers and I were busy collecting data for the challenge in Kisii. I felt the same excitement and sense of curiosity that motivated the previous Female Rights Challenge, and I wasn’t disappointed. It was mesmerizing...
“Does anyone have any questions for now?” I asked at the end of my ‘speech’ about the research plan and the goal of the Father Involvement Challenge. “I do!”, one of the community leaders replied. “You said you were...
After one month in Kisii, the interviews during the Women Empowerment Challenge are progressing well. We are learning a lot from the interviews. One lesson is that both men and women are being empowered through community Self Help Groups....
Here I am, in Kisii, Kenya, working on an issue that everyone agrees is important, but no one seems able to define: “Women Empowerment”. What is Women Empowerment? English-language dictionaries equate “empowerment” with liberation, emancipation, inspiration, encouragement, confidence-building and...