Dodd Warren, Wyngaarden Sara, Humphries Sally, Lobo Tosta Esmeralda, Zelaya Portillo Veronica, Orellana Paola
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Action Res (Lond). 2024 Sep;22(3):243-261. doi: 10.1177/14767503231160960. Epub 2023 Mar 6.
Empowerment and participation are promoted as critical factors in meaningful development processes; however, action-oriented researchers face challenges in fostering genuine empowerment and meaningful participation within traditional funding cycles and research timelines. This case study illustrates a participatory methodology employed by researchers in partnership with one Honduran non-governmental organization (NGO) to conduct 'practical' participatory evaluation with rural Honduran youth. Through collaborative autoethnography, two components of this methodology are identified and described. The first component - 'foundational elements'- includes the NGO's culture of transformative participation and the organization's attention to synergies in the insider/outsider identities of research partners. The second component includes the ability of the research team to leverage this foundation for the participatory evaluation with rural youth. Importantly, this ability was grounded in and shaped by long-term, trust-based relationships between research partners. These relationships were the catalyst for success in this participatory initiative, connecting the 'foundational elements' identified to the collaborative outcomes experienced. Overall, this case study contributes to current and ongoing scholarly discussions on how to facilitate meaningful participation and capability expansion in research and evaluation contexts.
赋权和参与被视为有意义的发展进程中的关键因素；然而，以行动为导向的研究人员在传统资金周期和研究时间范围内促进真正的赋权和有意义的参与时面临挑战。本案例研究展示了研究人员与一个洪都拉斯非政府组织（NGO）合作采用的一种参与式方法，对洪都拉斯农村青年进行“实践”参与式评估。通过合作自我民族志，确定并描述了该方法的两个组成部分。第一个组成部分——“基础要素”——包括该非政府组织变革性参与的文化以及该组织对研究伙伴内部/外部身份协同效应的关注。第二个组成部分包括研究团队利用这一基础对农村青年进行参与式评估的能力。重要的是，这种能力基于研究伙伴之间长期的、基于信任的关系，并受其影响。这些关系是这一参与式倡议取得成功的催化剂，将所确定的“基础要素”与所经历的合作成果联系起来。总体而言，本案例研究为当前正在进行的关于如何在研究和评估背景下促进有意义的参与和能力拓展的学术讨论做出了贡献。
