Research Methodology: Participatory Action Research

Participatory action research is a recognized form of experimental research that focuses on the effects of the researcher's direct actions of practice within a participatory community. This "learning by doing" approach to research is a cyclical process in which groups of people identify a problem, attempt to resolve it, see how successful their efforts were, and if not satisfied, try again.

Try a variety of terms in addition to participatory action research, such as:

• community participation
• community driven
• community based
• public participation
• stakeholder OR stakeholders
• citizens OR citizen