Uxolo: Demonstrating Community-Engaged Praxis (Stream II)

Community Action Research Programme (CARP)

Stream II has a community-based participatory research (CBPR) orientation, and originated in Erijaville, about 40 km to the east of Cape Town. The Stream is focused on developing critical and innovative context specific youth violence interventions in low-income community settings. The Stream is underpinned by the principles of CBPR, mobilises community assets and resources, and demonstrates the development, implementation and evaluation of youth violence prevention, safety and peace promotion sustainable interventions to promote social transformation and community-building. Stream II has also established community-based structures to optimise the engagement of a community researcher group and residents in programme management and intervention activities to promote social transformation, ownership, community building, and sustainability.

Drawing on various modes of intervention and research strategies to address youth violence in low-income communities, the key objectives of Stream II are to:

Design, implement and evaluate youth violence prevention interventions in low-income settings.
Evaluate the integrity, coherence, relevance, logic and contextual congruence of a CBPR model of community engagement.
Establish and capacitate community-based structures and systems to promote social justice and optimise sustainable praxis.
Conduct a conceptual-based evaluation to synthesise all our work on all CBPR initiatives, and to uncover key principles and values, organise and synthesise the lessons learned, and identify emergent themes to establish gaps and opportunities potential areas of for further development.

Last modified: Mon Aug 07 18:03:37 SAST 2023