Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 268, Issue 3, Pages 865-874Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.11.025
Keywords
Community operational research; Participatory research; Community development; Action research; Operational research in developing countries
Funding
- Freedom Fund
- CA Foundation
- Sightsavers
- United States Institute for Peace
- USAID
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This paper assesses three research projects focusing respectively on disability, peace building and slavery in a variety of international development contexts. It discusses the evolution of methodologies which enable meaningful and extensive participation in the research process by people living in poverty and marginalisation, and which enable participatory methods to go to scale. The paper shows how these processes are built on methodological pluralism combined with iterative methodological reflection. The paper argues that large scale participatory processes of this sort demonstrate significant methodological rigour and analytical robustness, and are highly effective processes for generating impactful systemic intervention. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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