Community-oriented research (CBR) is promoted as a method of collaboration in which community members have a say in defining the research program, following the process through to the end. Unlike academic research method that deals with only one scientific discipline, community-based research gives communities a space to set their own research to be conducted and address their own needs and priorities. Through the attitude of mutuality, community members become partners, not subjects and CBR promotes respect, inclusion, and co-learning. "Research can give tools and capacity to make a difference in their own vicinity, taking them from being passive observers to key stakeholders in the fight for a better common future."
Two significant aspects of community-based research are that firstly, it boosts mutual understanding of knowledge and secondly, it brings together researchers and community members, The implementation of the community members throughout the project lifecycle, from design to diffusion, is targeted to: inform the hidden sides and to share and transform the community's vision and goals. One community can solve the big problems and this reduces the gap between knowledge producers and the community which, most likely, explains an improvement.
It is also useful to community-based research for the reason that it can be used as a stimulus of social transformation by promoting participatory leadership and heckling of policies that are solidly founded on the information and the data that emanate directly from the community. CBR communities’ cooperation not only produces valuable knowledge but also builds a constant atmosphere among all, and the spirit of strength and collective efforts is also nourished. Cooperating, working as one, and thus crafting strong, fair, and sustainable communes is what community-based studies can achieve.
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