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      Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video

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          This paper describes and critically examines the process and outcomes of a community-based participatory video (PV) research project on issues related to water governance with residents of underserved and informal settlements in Khayelitsha, South Africa and Accra, Ghana. Co-produced videos were used to facilitate communication and to open a dialogue between the participating communities and their respective local governments, with the aims of improving awareness of the issues, enhancing agency and enabling participation in the political and social debates about water governance. Analysing the approach, our research draws on two key principles of participatory governance – recognition and response – to evaluate the application of PV as a potential engagement tool for participatory water governance. We critically discuss the reality and tensions of PV in shifting deep-rooted inequities of power in decision making through two case studies, both of which involved residents and representatives from local governments in the research process.

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          Modifying Photovoice for community-based participatory Indigenous research.

          Scientific research occurs within a set of socio-political conditions, and in Canada research involving Indigenous communities has a historical association with colonialism. Consequently, Indigenous peoples have been justifiably sceptical and reluctant to become the subjects of academic research. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an attempt to develop culturally relevant research models that address issues of injustice, inequality, and exploitation. The work reported here evaluates the use of Photovoice, a CBPR method that uses participant-employed photography and dialogue to create social change, which was employed in a research partnership with a First Nation in Western Canada. Content analysis of semi-structured interviews (n=45) evaluated participants' perspectives of the Photovoice process as part of a larger study on health and environment issues. The analysis revealed that Photovoice effectively balanced power, created a sense of ownership, fostered trust, built capacity, and responded to cultural preferences. The authors discuss the necessity of modifying Photovoice, by building in an iterative process, as being key to the methodological success of the project.
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                Contributors
                Journal
                rfa
                Research for All
                UCL Press (UK )
                2399-8121
                01 February 2022
                : 6
                : 1
                : e06104
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada
                [2 ]Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, Canada
                Author notes
                *Correspondence: crystalt@ 123456uvic.ca
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-0936
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1700-1902
                Article
                10.14324/RFA.06.1.04
                1888a729-5dae-4f60-9921-0d18a8328fa9
                Copyright 2022, Crystal Tremblay and Leila M. Harris

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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                : 26 June 2019
                : 19 October 2021
                Page count
                References: 82, Pages: 19
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                Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Education & Public policy,Educational research & Statistics
                participatory video,community engagement,urban Africa,water governance,community-based research

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