This monthly newsletter aims to highlight the participatory research initiatives emerging from Participatory Research @ McGill (PRAM), and Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency (CIET), as well as share new opportunities for projects, courses, funding, and more! 

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An ever busy team, below are a few updates from the PRAM/CIET network.

This month, our wonderful colleagues in Nunavik, Pasha and Elisapie, travelled to Kuujjuaq to conduct fuzzy cognitive mapping sessions. Community members will be invited to explore the contributing factors for giving birth in a good way. This is a continuation of their previous work, where they visited all the communities around Hudson Bay in 2022. During these first few months of 2023, they will gradually visit all the communities on Ungava Bay.

We are wishing them all the best as they continue their important work.

The team working in Bauchi State, Nigeria, is attempting to address a common challenge found in participatory research - how can stakeholders be included in the data analysis process?

Last year, adolescents and other stakeholders created fuzzy cognitive maps to identify factors leading to good adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Local research team members are now having these original map creators review the list of individual concepts identified across all the maps (200 concepts!), and group them into categories according to action; meaning, putting together related concepts that could be acted on together.

All groups, even adolescents as young as 10 years old, have been able to do this grouping and have found it enjoyable and engaging! See below some pictures from the ongoing efforts in Nigeria. 

Highlighted below are some of the most recent publications from the industrious PRAM team:

Authors: Juan Pimentel, Paola López, Camilo Correal, Anne Cockcroft & Neil Andersson

Authors: Juan Pimentel, Paola López, Anne Cockcroft & Neil Andersson