Engagement on fisher folks livelihood held by local community actor at Kundapura, Karnataka.

Building a knowledge repository with the women working in Farmer Producer Organisation at Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu.

<aside> 📎 Research should, first and foremost benefit the communities whose knowledges we engage with is one of our founding principles.

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Our focus is to build deep relationships with specific communities of a place, which enables multiple forms of participation by the community members in research activities.

We have learned from our long relationships with the women health workers in Channapatna, and multiple actors and communities in Bidar, Karnataka, and more recently with the women farmers in the Pudukottai region of Tamil Nadu, where we have carried out numerous community-based, community driven research initiatives.

Our research facilitates to both look into and understand pasts and presents, for eg, the Climate Resource Center in Bidar (by Living Labs Network, in collaboration with Team YUVAA, Bidar), as well as enable collective speculations about the future, for eg, the International Telecommunications Union funded research to understand resilient futures of community networks (in collaboration with University of Cape Town and Janastu-Servelots)

Samagra Arogya a place based community led research in collaboration with Karnataka Health Promotion Trust is a long-term place-based collaborative engagement to understand and respond to Social Determinants of Health at the Gram Panchayat level. First phase is situated in 7 Grama Panchayats in Kundapura Taluk namely Vandse, Idur Kunjnady, Hemmadi, Hakladi, Chittur, Aluru, and Keradi.

Women farmers speculating on the futures of their enterprise, in Pudukottai.