scholarly journals The Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond Project: On Conservation Finance, Decolonization, and Community-Based Participatory Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Conservation Finance ◽  
Conservation Funding

The Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond (CIB) model was developed in Canada as a novel approach to conservation finance building on components of existing conservation funding models. The CIB model responds to the urgent need for piloting reconciliatory and cross-cultural ways of collaborating with Indigenous communities to diversify investment partnerships and redirect capital to conservation efforts that promote the regeneration of land and reciprocal and respectful relationships in southern Ontario. The CIB is a financial instrument that facilitates cross-cultural collaboration by providing a common goal amongst a diverse set of sectors, partners, and worldviews to promote healthy landscapes and empower relationships between people and ecosystems. By leveraging financial incentives, this model aims to engage partners who may not have otherwise been attracted to conservation efforts. By tying financial returns to impact metrics of holistic landscape health that incorporate Indigenous worldviews and values of nature, this innovative instrument seeks to contribute towards shifting the conservation finance paradigm more broadly by engaging in the ongoing process of decolonizing the financialization of nature.

Baraza as method: Adapting a traditional conversational space for data collection and pathways for change

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110293
Author(s):  
Laura A. Chubb ◽  
Christa B. Fouché ◽  
Karen Sadeh Kengah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Context Specific

The call to decolonise research processes and knowledge produced through them has spawned a powerful shift in working relationships between community researchers and members of local communities. Adaptation of a traditional conversational space in a community-based participatory research study offers a context-specific example of a decolonising method for data collection and as pathways for change. This article reports on learnings encountered while adapting the space and highlights the relevance for other cultural contexts. We present principles to adapt traditional conversational spaces both for collecting data and as a means of working in partnership with indigenous communities to enable different ways of knowing and action.

Community-based participatory research with Indigenous communities: The proximity paradox

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 183-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Ritchie ◽  
Mary Jo Wabano ◽  
Jackson Beardy ◽  
Jeffrey Curran ◽  
Aaron Orkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Based

Community-Based Participatory Research in the News: A Qualitative Case Study of the Online Media Characterization of a French Health Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-194
Author(s):  
Catherine dP. Duarte ◽  
Alison K. Cohen ◽  
Barbara L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Epidemiologic Study ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Content Analysis ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Methodological Rigor

Since online media can be key in the widespread, symmetrical dissemination of science, we performed a media content analysis of 44 online articles to assess coverage of a French community-based participatory research (CBPR) epidemiologic study. Most articles highlighted methodological rigor and the research topic’s salience to residents. Approximately half of the articles reported findings, with the remaining focusing on action steps. To our knowledge, this study is the first to explore how online media communicate CBPR, a novel approach in the French context, to the public. Though there were some gaps in the media’s portrayal, CBPR may facilitate online media uptake of findings. We provide recommendations for future research on this topic.

Expanding the Transformative Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Design Archetype in a Cross-Cultural Context: The Polemics of African Refugee Livelihoods in Places of Resettlement

2020 ◽  
pp. 155868982093637
Author(s):  
Arati Maleku ◽  
Youn Kyoung Kim ◽  
Njeri Kagotho ◽  
Younghee Lim
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Mixed Methods Design ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
African Refugee

Transformative sequential mixed methods design in a cross-cultural context is seldom straightforward. Using a community-based participatory research approach as the transformative lens in an African refugee context in the southern United Status, we explored: (a) the intersection of culture, financial stress, and financial self-efficacy and (b) tested the efficacy of financial literacy as the focus of a culturally responsive solution grounded in community-identified priorities. Through a three-phased explanatory sequential mixed methods design, we demonstrate how the addition of a third phase of analysis that focuses on convergence and expansion of quantitative and qualitative data integration and cyclical processes of dissemination and action can strengthen the utility of transformative mixed methods research in a cross-cultural context. Our study offers a unique contribution to the long-standing methodological dialogue between the design elements of mixed methods research, community-based participatory research, and migration studies by expanding the transformative explanatory sequential design archetype in a cross-cultural context.

A Contribution to Measure Partnership Trust in Community-Based Participatory Research and Interventions With Latinx Communities in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483992110046
Author(s):  
Arelis Moore de Peralta ◽  
Victoria Prieto Rosas ◽  
Julie Smithwick ◽  
Shirley M. Timmons ◽  
Myriam E. Torres
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trust Model ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Multidimensional Measure

Given the growing diversity in the United States, responsiveness to the needs of diverse communities is paramount. Latinx communities in the United States often state mistrust in outside institutions because of adverse experiences. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is considered a trust-building process and is one approach to understand disparities. However, the conceptualization and evaluation of trust as a CBPR outcome are understudied. This article summarizes a community-engaged research process conducted for the cultural and linguistic refinement of a partnership trust survey tool to assess partnership trust as an outcome of CBPR (CBPR-PTS), by using Perinatal Awareness for Successful Outcomes (PASOs) as a case study and cross-cultural cognitive interviewing (CCCI) methodology. The participants were 21 diverse stakeholders of PASOs, a community-based health organization that serves the Latinx population in South Carolina. A modified version of the multidimensional measure of trust model informed instrument development. The team analyzed the CCCI data using compiling informal analysis to identify which survey items’ wordings must be changed or adapted based on the participants’ accounts. Sixteen of 28 questions subjected to CCCI required modifications due to translation errors, culturally specific errors, or general cognitive problems. The new survey instrument has 19 scales and 195 items categorized into nine dimensions of the modified multidimensional measure of trust model. CCCI was a useful tool to address the cross-cultural understanding issues of the CBPR-PTS. Measurement instruments should be able to capture the socioeconomic, cultural, and geographic/environmental variability of community stakeholders to help understand the diversity of the comprehension and views of the communities involved in disparities’ reduction efforts.

scholarly journals Learning to Fail Better: Reflections on the Challenges and Risks of Community-Based Participatory Mental Health Research With Inuit Youth in Nunavut

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polina Anang ◽  
Nora Gottlieb ◽  
Suzanne Putulik ◽  
Shelley Iguptak ◽  
Ellen Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Community Based ◽  
On The Road

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a mine field of moral dilemmas. Even when carefully planned for and continuously critically reflected upon, conflicts are likely to occur as part of the process. This paper illustrates the lessons learned from “Building on Strengths in Naujaat”, a resiliency initiative with the objective of promoting sense of belonging, collective efficacy, and well-being in Inuit youth. Naujaat community members over time established strong meaningful relationships with academic researchers. Youth took on the challenge of organizing community events, trips out on the land, and fundraisers. While their creativity and resourcefulness are at the heart of the initiative, this paper explores conflicts and pitfalls that accompanied it. Based on three themes – struggles in coming together as academic and community partners, the danger of perpetuating colonial power structures, and the challenges of navigating complex layers of relations within the community – we examine the dilemmas unearthed by these conflicts, including an exploration of how much we as CBPR researchers are at risk of reproducing colonial power structures. Acknowledging and addressing power imbalances, while striving for transparency, accountability, and trust, are compelling guiding principles needed to support Indigenous communities on the road toward health equity.

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