{"id":16260,"date":"2026-06-10T16:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seven-senses.nu\/?p=16260"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:14:23","slug":"why-participatory-action-research-education-programmes-in-the-form-of-a-sevensenses-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seven-senses.nu\/nl\/why-participatory-action-research-education-programmes-in-the-form-of-a-sevensenses-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Waarom onderwijsprogramma\u2019s voor participatief actieonderzoek in de vorm van een SevenSenses Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As far as societal history goes, there is a huge gap between (scientific) research and practical outcome. On the one hand, research has always been seen as a scientific exercise executed by academic professionals, often lacking access to the practical realisation of positive societal change. On the other hand, solutions for societal change often lacks proper research into the issue, with failing projects as a consequence. Participatory Action Research connects the two, so we get the best of both worlds. Let\u2019s zoom in to the two extremes, to see how Participatory Action Research makes the connection and discover how the Challenge concept adds to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one extreme: academic research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Academic research is very much dependent on institutional supply. Scientific researchers focus on gaps in the literature and\/or where financial support can be mobilized. The end result is a report with recommendations on e.g. policies that have to be developed top-down. This process often lacks the link with societal needs on different layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, on a demand level, the development of the research is often not focused on the actual local demand or need, missing an important opportunity to solve a pressing real-life societal issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, on the data collection level, research methodology is often determined by the researchers, without consulting \u2018the people to be researched\u2019 on what is ethically or culturally appropriate. With this, they risk inappropriate or low-quality research including desirability bias, lack of attendance or a limited response rate from the side of the research population, and other discrepancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, on an outcome level, data are often analysed by the researchers and turned into recommendations for institutional professionals. The research population (the ones \u2018researched\u2019) are often left behind without any insight in the final results and recommendations, which limits their ability to solve the issue. On the institutional level, these recommendations often end up on a shelf doomed to get dusty, as the management level is too busy to realize recommendations if at all funding or other resources are available to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So who is the one and only winner, then? The literature! The gap in the literature was neatly filled up by the researcher. Literature, which in turn is only read by academic people who happen to understand the technical language. Who in turn come up with new research to fill a new gap that emerged and the cycle starts all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cImagine if alle these research projects done in the past were focused on actual, localized societal needs, and action emerging for this research would be directly realized by the local people. Wouldn\u2019t the world look totally different?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Participatory Action Research in particular, and especially in the form of the SevenSenses Challenge, addresses this issue on all levels mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, on the demand level, a Challenge always arises from a local demand to solve a common shared societal issue in a community, as opposed to a demand derived from a gap in literature or from a funding agency. This is how SevenSenses can release itself from the funding agency chain and operate independently, focusing on real-life social issues and change that matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, on the data collection level, Participatory Action Research is such an adaptive process, that even the research process itself is being co-determined with the local stakeholders. In a SevenSenses Challenge, the team works together with two researchers from the local community. They are not necessarily researchers with a diploma. They are people who know the community well, who know local cultural customs and traditions and who know what research methodology would be ethically appropriate. Together with these local researchers, based on your first informal findings in the field, you determine the final research methodology. As such, you get the best suited methodology for your PAR with the highest probability of active participation from the local people, and the most optimal, real-life, unbiased data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, on the outcome level, there is a big difference between regular scientific research and Participatory Action Research. Regular scientific research generally ends with a research report for institutions. In Participatory Action Research the research results are presented to the community during the PAR process. The next step in PAR is to reflect on these results with the different stakeholders[1] involved and proceed towards co-creating solutions to the issue(s) addressed. Together with the local stakeholders you determine the conditions under which the locals can confidently realize the solutions and these solutions are implemented within the same PAR process. The research report then becomes more of a by-product, sharing experiences of the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other extreme: practical outcome<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s place development aid on the other extreme end of the research \u2013 practical outcome scale. As stated before, since it\u2019s very existence, development aid has mostly been practiced top-down, by people who decided \u2018what was good for others\u2019, as in: without consulting them first. Although nowadays much more participatory approaches are used in which locals decide what is best for themselves, the traditional mere top-down way is still practiced today worldwide, unfortunately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local Non-Governmental Organisations often have very limited staff capacity and are dependent on volunteers who may not always be as committed and knowledgeable as paid staff. With a high volunteer turnover, it is often hard to make proper progress on a project. The local community keeps seeing new people coming in; they may be tired of having to tell the entire story again and may face difficulties trusting the new volunteers on their skills, agenda and time. All this seriously impairs the quality of the development project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local NGOs also often lack funds for proper (action) research. Pushed by the \u2013mostly short term oriented- goals of their funders, they often implement top-down designed projects without consulting the local community first. If the donor wants a primary school, they will build a primary school. If the donor wants an orphanage, there will be an orphanage. The before- and after pictures of such buildings are very popular, to show the public they have done \u2018good\u2019 for society. As such, the \u2018rich\u2019 decide what is good for the \u2018poor\u2019.[2] The effects can be disastrous, known as volunteerism or what I call \u2018the orphanage syndrome\u2019. These phenomena both are caused by the discrepancy between the interests of the \u2018rich\u2019 and the needs of the \u2018poor\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe \u2018orphanage syndrome\u2019 is a phenomenon where development aid is driven by finances rather than societal needs. Unfortunately, there are many of these types of development projects, with hazardous effects on society.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Through Participatory Action Research, a societal issue is properly researched with the local community before any solution gets implemented. As such, PAR is a holistic approach that takes into account cause-effect relations of the issue addressed, history, culture, social relations, the current versus the desired situation, the strengths and opportunities of the community, solutions to the issue as proposed by stakeholders, conditions under which these solutions can be put into practice and more. All these things take into account the different perspectives of all stakeholders. Only as such can we get a complete picture of the issue. When stakeholders understand this complete picture, four interesting things start to happen. First, stakeholders gain mutual understanding of other stakeholders\u2019 perspectives and their corresponding behaviors. Second, as all stakeholders have provided information based on their knowledge, a process called social learning emerges in which they learn from each other, which enriches their knowledge of the issue. Third, new solutions arise as multiple solutions come to the surface and new connections are made between problems, assets and solutions. Fourth, as there is more transparency about problems, assets and solutions and new opportunities come to the surface, the willingness to cooperate to tackle the societal issue increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through these four phenomena and presenting your results during your PAR process, a solid base is established upon which a project (the co-created solution to the societal issue) can be realized. This greatly reduces any chance of failure, on the level of 1) fulfilling societal needs, 2) cultural and ethical appropriateness of the solution, 3) equality (reducing the disadvantage of certain stakeholder groups and subsequent acts of envy) and 4) feasibility of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s get back to the mere top-down issue of practical outcome described earlier. A top-down approach is practically impossible in PAR. The opposite of the top-down approach is the bottom-up approach, which basically means that the \u2018bottom\u2019 of society -citizens- create solutions. PAR involves all stakeholders, including people from the \u2018top\u2019 and the \u2018bottom\u2019. I hope one day we will get rid of these terms, as they imply innate hierarchy, something by far not of our times anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bottom-up is a negative term, as it suggests that citizens are the riff-raff of society. For the above reasons, I would like to introduce the PAR approach as a \u2018Community-Up approach\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Community-up means the entire community, including citizens and governments and other \u2018Top\u2019 institutions, and all in between. The advantage of this community-up approach is that all stakeholders are involved in the co-creation of solutions, which creates that solid base I mentioned earlier, limiting the chance of failure to an absolute minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s also zoom in on the issue of NGO\u2019s lacking manpower for proper research. This is where the Challenge concept comes in. The SevenSenses Challenge connects research capacity in the North with societal issues anywhere in the world. There are numerous students with great ambitions to finalise their study on an interesting societal issue overseas, or professionals who want to have more impact in society with their knowledge and skills. The Challenge concept connects the two. Through the SevenSenses Challenge, local NGOs do not have to hire expensive researchers for this PAR process. Challenge participants pay to join the SevenSenses Challenge and in return receive professional training and workshops in PAR, development aid, intercultural communication, and intensive one-on-one support in personal and professional development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there is this endless struggle for NGOs regarding funding. They often lack funding and when there is money, the NGO is often squeezed between societal needs and the goals of the funding agency. Unfortunately the funding agency usually wins. SevenSenses only works with funding agencies that explicitly dare to let go of their specific goals and accept that the SevenSenses Challenge only focuses on societal needs as formulated by the local community as a whole. They also accept that solutions are co-created by that same community and only them, as local stakeholders of the societal issue. In other words, the funding agency accepts that at the start of the Challenge, the solution is yet unknown. They invest in the PAR process; the fact that the co-created solution is often a fraction of the budget that would be required in case of a top-down project, is an added bonus and a happy surprise for the local NGO as well as the funding agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the Challenge concept, SevenSenses aims to create a worldwide reduction of dependency on traditional paternalistic western aid. The term \u2018western aid\u2019 is terribly old-fashioned and people in the developing countries (also a terribly outdated word) are sick and tired of all the paternalistic \u2018help\u2019 \u2013read: interference- of \u2018the rich\u2019. Applying PAR in as many places as possible should generate enough empowerment of local people to tackle societal issues with local means, manpower, talent and all other things that are abundantly available at location. From there, this will likely work as a metaphoric \u2018vaccine\u2019 (vaccinated people protect the unvaccinated): the empowered people empower the ones not (yet) empowered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the entire SevenSenses Challenge Programme<\/a> is designed especially with the aim of tackling the issues mentioned above, up to the tiniest details. Read here<\/a> what it consists of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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