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The digital transformation challenges old ways of working and demands new methods and new solidarities locally and globally. Participatory Action Research (PAR) directly engages local priorities and perspectives through co-producing research in partnership among researchers, community leaders, and others with insider knowledge and lives experience; it aims at action and reflection to achieve social change.

What happens when PAR is practiced both locally and transnationally, across borders, at multiple scales? Since 2021, the Digital Health and Rights Project consortium has worked collaboratively with early career researchers at universities, civil society organisations and community-led networks in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Vietnam. The project has engaged over 600 young people in all five countries, including 48 community advisors who are young leaders of networks of people living with HIV, key populations, and/or digital rights advocates.

In May, the project concludes its current phase with prolific outputs: published research, multi-lingual educational resources and policy impact at global and national levels. The model of transnational participatory action research is also itself an output. In this panel, researchers from each country and the project advisory council reflect on what worked, the challenges, and lessons for other transnational participatory action research projects in the future.

SPEAKERS:

• , University of Essex; Digital Rights Advisory Council; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Physical and Mental Health
• , Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM, University of ÌÇÐÄTV) and Global Governance Centre (Geneva Graduate Institute)

PANEL DISCUSSION:

• , University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK
• , KELIN, Kenya
• , Ghana Community Advisory Team (G-CAT), Ghana
• Trang Pham, Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+)

MODERATOR:

• , Universidad de los Ande