Seven core competencies and conditions for equitable partnerships and power sharing in community-based participatory research

Ozano, Kimberley, Alam, Wafa, Aktar, Bachera, Okoth, Linet, Chumo, Ivy, Quach, Jessica Amegee, Muturi, Nelly, Saidu, Samuel, Gandi, Ibrahim, Wiltgen Georgi, Neele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1737-241X, Otiso, Lilian, Conteh, Abu, Theobald, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9053-211X, Dean, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4910-9707, Tolhurst, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-6641, Karuga, Robinson, Karki, Jiban, Garimella, Surekha, Rao, Vinodkumar, Mwanki, Anthony, Islam, Nazia, Tengbe, Sia Morenike, Dash, Sweta, Saligram, Prasanna Subramanya, Rashid, Sabina and Steege, Rosie (2024) 'Seven core competencies and conditions for equitable partnerships and power sharing in community-based participatory research'. BMJ Global Health, Vol 9, Issue 11, e015497.

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Abstract

Equitable health research requires actively engaging communities in producing new knowledge to advocate for their health needs. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) relies on the coproduction of contextual and grounded knowledge between researchers, programme implementers and community partners with the aim of catalysing action for change. Improving coproduction competencies can support research quality and validity. Yet, frameworks and guidance highlighting the ideal competencies and conditions needed for all research partners to contribute meaningfully and equitably are lacking. This paper aims to advance CBPR by laying out seven core competencies and conditions that can promote power sharing in knowledge production, application and dissemination at the individual, community, organisational and systems levels.

Competencies were developed through an iterative process, that synthesised pre-existing literature and frameworks with a wide range of tacit knowledge from researchers, activists, implementation partners and community researchers from Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Sierra Leone and the UK.

The seven core competencies and conditions are: (1) capacity to interpret and respond to individual and relational identity, connection, uniqueness and inequities; (2) ability of communities and partners to work in the most suitable, inclusive and synergistic way; (3) aptitude for generating safe and inclusive spaces for multidirectional knowledge and skills exchange that goes beyond the research focus; (4) expertise in democratic leadership and/or facilitation to balance competing priorities and ensure shared decision-making; (5) capacity to analyse readiness for action, successes and areas for improvements throughout the research process; (6) ability to instigate sustainable change processes within the political dimensions of systems, policies and practices using advocacy, lobbying or activism approaches and (7) skills to interpret and disseminate findings and outputs that are understandable, respectful and promote community ownership. We present core competency and condition areas, individual and collective expertise associated with competencies, likely outcomes, examples of activities and sources of evidence.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	W General Medicine. Health Professions > W 50 Medical ethics W General Medicine. Health Professions > W 21.5 Allied health personnel. Allied health professions WA Public Health > WA 18 Education
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015497
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Pubrouter
Depositing User:	JISC Pubrouter
Date Deposited:	27 Nov 2024 11:29
Last Modified:	27 Nov 2024 11:29
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/25643

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