PUKAR

The Youth and Urban Knowledge Production theme encourages community based youth to create new urban knowledge. This process leads to democratizing the knowledge producer, knowledge ownership and helps creates a level playing field for the marginalized youth who become leaders of their communities. A group of marginalized youth is provided with research and communication skills, through workshops, debates and dialogues conducted by facilitators, alumentors, innovators and resources persons. They partake in the research design based upon the needs assessment of the community and they collect the data. Armed with their research data, together they design, advocate, disseminate and implement change in their communities.