Pradeep Narayanan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 198423 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Pradeep Narayanan |
| PRENOMES | Pradeep |
| SOBRENOME | Narayanan |
| ASSINATURA | NARAYANAN P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India
A Long Journey
Recognizing the limitations of the raid-rescue-and-rehabilitation model, this article emphasizes the need for anti-trafficking interventions to follow a more holistic approach toward addressing the challenges of trafficking. Using the case study of a community-led collectivization initiative facilitated by Praxis – Institute for Participatory Practices that addressed the challenges faced by the Nat and Bediya communities, the article traces the h…
Ethical Issues in Participatory Action Research on Covid-appropriate Behaviour and Vaccine Hesitancy in India
This article starts with a case outlining ethical challenges encountered in participatory action research (PAR) on vaccine hesitancy in rural India during Covid-19. Community researchers were recruited by a not-for-profit organisation, with the aim of both discovering the reasons for vaccine hesitancy and encouraging take-up. This raised issues about the roles and responsibilities of local researchers in their own communities, where they might be…
Building in Complementarity
Beyond partnerships
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the “partnership” as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for u…
Participation Pays
Investing in Communities
Community mobilization often requires greater time and resource investments than typical interventions, yet few evaluations exist to justify these investments. We evaluated the added benefit of community mobilization on HIV prevention outcomes among female sex workers (FSWs) using a composite measure of volunteer participation in program committees by FSWs. After adjusting for treatment propensity, we used multilevel structural equation modeling …
Design of a Community Ownership and Preparedness Index
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation is an important component of a participatory approach to health and development interventions. However, it is challenging to define, measure and assess community participation and ownership of a programme, especially at scale. METHODS: An iterative cross-sectional survey was designed for implementation across a representative sample of community-based groups, using a weighted index that captured both qualitative…
Navigating the swampy lowland
BACKGROUND: Few models of how community mobilisation works have been elaborated in the scientific literature, and evaluation of the impact of these programmes on HIV and other health outcomes is extremely limited. Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, has been implementing community mobilisation as part of its prevention programming with groups of high-risk individuals across six states since 2005. PURPOSE: To articulate a programme theory and evalu…
Monitoring community mobilisation and organisational capacity among high-risk groups in a large-scale HIV prevention programme in India
BACKGROUND: In a participatory approach to health and development interventions, defining and measuring community mobilisation is important, but it is challenging to do this effectively, especially at scale. METHODS: A cross-sectional, participatory monitoring tool was administered in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 across a representative sample of 25 community-based groups (CBGs) formed under the Avahan India AIDS Initiative, to assess their progress i…
Navigating the swampy lowland
BACKGROUND: Few models of how community mobilisation works have been elaborated in the scientific literature, and evaluation of the impact of these programmes on HIV and other health outcomes is extremely limited. Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, has been implementing community mobilisation as part of its prevention programming with groups of high-risk individuals across six states since 2005. PURPOSE: To articulate a programme theory and evalu…
Beyond partnerships
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the “partnership” as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for u…
Design of a Community Ownership and Preparedness Index
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation is an important component of a participatory approach to health and development interventions. However, it is challenging to define, measure and assess community participation and ownership of a programme, especially at scale. METHODS: An iterative cross-sectional survey was designed for implementation across a representative sample of community-based groups, using a weighted index that captured both qualitative…
Monitoring community mobilisation and organisational capacity among high-risk groups in a large-scale HIV prevention programme in India
BACKGROUND: In a participatory approach to health and development interventions, defining and measuring community mobilisation is important, but it is challenging to do this effectively, especially at scale. METHODS: A cross-sectional, participatory monitoring tool was administered in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 across a representative sample of 25 community-based groups (CBGs) formed under the Avahan India AIDS Initiative, to assess their progress i…
Design of a Community Ownership and Preparedness Index
BACKGROUND: Community mobilisation is an important component of a participatory approach to health and development interventions. However, it is challenging to define, measure and assess community participation and ownership of a programme, especially at scale. METHODS: An iterative cross-sectional survey was designed for implementation across a representative sample of community-based groups, using a weighted index that captured both qualitative…
Navigating the swampy lowland
BACKGROUND: Few models of how community mobilisation works have been elaborated in the scientific literature, and evaluation of the impact of these programmes on HIV and other health outcomes is extremely limited. Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative, has been implementing community mobilisation as part of its prevention programming with groups of high-risk individuals across six states since 2005. PURPOSE: To articulate a programme theory and evalu…
Monitoring community mobilisation and organisational capacity among high-risk groups in a large-scale HIV prevention programme in India
BACKGROUND: In a participatory approach to health and development interventions, defining and measuring community mobilisation is important, but it is challenging to do this effectively, especially at scale. METHODS: A cross-sectional, participatory monitoring tool was administered in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 across a representative sample of 25 community-based groups (CBGs) formed under the Avahan India AIDS Initiative, to assess their progress i…
Investing in Communities
Community mobilization often requires greater time and resource investments than typical interventions, yet few evaluations exist to justify these investments. We evaluated the added benefit of community mobilization on HIV prevention outcomes among female sex workers (FSWs) using a composite measure of volunteer participation in program committees by FSWs. After adjusting for treatment propensity, we used multilevel structural equation modeling …
Participation Pays
Building in Complementarity
Beyond partnerships
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the “partnership” as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for u…
Ethical Issues in Participatory Action Research on Covid-appropriate Behaviour and Vaccine Hesitancy in India
This article starts with a case outlining ethical challenges encountered in participatory action research (PAR) on vaccine hesitancy in rural India during Covid-19. Community researchers were recruited by a not-for-profit organisation, with the aim of both discovering the reasons for vaccine hesitancy and encouraging take-up. This raised issues about the roles and responsibilities of local researchers in their own communities, where they might be…
A Long Journey
Recognizing the limitations of the raid-rescue-and-rehabilitation model, this article emphasizes the need for anti-trafficking interventions to follow a more holistic approach toward addressing the challenges of trafficking. Using the case study of a community-led collectivization initiative facilitated by Praxis – Institute for Participatory Practices that addressed the challenges faced by the Nat and Bediya communities, the article traces the h…
Challenges of using PAR to promote collective action with denotified tribes in India
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