The Community-Led Research Initiative (CLR) actively engages communities and social movements in producing data on issues affecting their economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights (ESCER). The initiative aims to disrupt the power dynamics that result in the exclusion, marginalization, and erasure of communities’ ways of knowing and doing. By centering communities’ agency, knowledge, and perspectives grounded in lived experiences, the CLR initiative challenges dominant narratives and brings pluralistic solutions to ESCER issues.
The Working Group provides technical and practical support for social movements and grassroots groups to conduct participatory action research, offering learning spaces to gather data and evidence on specific issues. Additionally, it strengthens popular education and movement building and supports claims for justice, reparations, and accountability.
