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Participatory Research and Knowledge Production

01 Participatory Research and Knowledge Production · 14 edit slice
13
orgs
14
activities
13
strategies
the opening take
This slice touches 13 organizations and 14 activities — MILLENIUM WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION ( MWAYED), URGENT ACTION FUND FOR WOMENS HUMAN RIGHTS - CHANGED NAME TO: URGENT ACTION FUND - AFRICA, THE FORUM FOR AFRICAN WOMEN EDUCATIONALISTS KENYA CHAPTER, COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVE and others. The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Development", run by 5 orgs.
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shortlist

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where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
who's here

organizations in this field · 13

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

APIN Public Health Initiatives 1
Foundation
Center for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP) 1
Foundation
FCDO 1
Foundation
GIZ 1
Foundation
Kenya Red Cross 1
Corporate
The Global Fund 1
Foundation
UNFPA 1
Foundation
USAID 1
Foundation
USAID Wema 1
Government
WHO 1
Foundation
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Community-Led Development
4
1
Amplifying Lived Experience
3
Human Rights-Based Empowerment
4
Culturally Grounded Empowerment
2
Empowerment Through Collective Agency
3
Empowerment Through Participation
2
Integrated Development with Local Ownership
2
Integrated, Trauma-Informed Care
2
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks — relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

NGOs Partner
shared by 2 orgs
international organizations Partner
shared by 2 orgs
ACE Africa Partner
shared by 1 org
ACK Development Services Nyanza Network
shared by 1 org
ACK Development Services Nyanza Partner
shared by 1 org
ACK Development Services Nyanza Government
shared by 1 org
ACK St. Peters Church Partner
shared by 1 org
ACK St. Peters Church Compound Partner
shared by 1 org
AMwA Partner
shared by 1 org
APIN Public Health Initiatives Partner
shared by 1 org
APIN Public Health Initiatives Funder
shared by 1 org
African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) Partner
shared by 1 org
African Philanthropy Forum Network
shared by 1 org
African Philanthropy Network Network
shared by 1 org
African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF) Partner
shared by 1 org
African Women’s Development Fund Funder
shared by 1 org