Summary

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research), based in Global South, is an independent research collective and knowledge producing institution, located in Mumbai, India, that conducts multi-sectoral, cross-disciplinary, community based, participatory action research through the lens of marginalized youth who create evidence based actions for transforming themselves and their communities. PUKAR sees itself as a premier institution that in anchored in the value of Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) as a powerful and ethical instrument for knowledge production by marginalized youth. PUKAR believes that in a young, diverse, and pluralistic country like India where a large population faces multi-dimensional poverty, accepting, encouraging and respecting multiple epistemologies of knowledge, can contribute richly to urbanization and governance processes.

Causes Working On

PUKAR is a sector agnostic organisation. We use CBAPR as a tool in all of our initiative. We works under following rubrics- 1- Youth- Skill Development 2- Gender and Agency- Engaging adolescent girls and boys from slum and tribal areas, Women in slums and tribal areas 3- Urbanization and Governance 4- Health 5- Environment

Awards & Certifications

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