Our UNESCO Chair and its Knowledge for Change Global Consortium on Training are building community-based research capacity in the global South and the Excluded North to produce participatory knowledge that is locally contextualized and community driven as a contribution to the achievement of the SDGs. Each hub in our K4C Consortium relates to one or more of the SDGs. The specific knowledge generated comes from issues raised in communities.

It is carried out by students and community workers who undertake CBPR projects as part of their training in CBPR. Each participant works with a community or communities to identify an issue needing new knowledge and works with community members to co-create new knowledge related to one of the SDGs

The entire project is focussed on capacity-building of a new generation of community based participatory researchers

It is coordinated by Drs. Budd Hall, U of Victoria, Canada and Rajesh Tandon, PRIA, India in cooperation with the K4C hub coordinators in the various countries where hubs exist.

University of Victoria, Canada, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), Knowledge for Change Global Consortium on Training in Community-Based Research (South Africa, India, Indonesia, Italy, Colombia)