PARTNERS FOR URBAN KNOWLEDGE ACTION AND RESEARCH (PUKAR)

About PARTNERS FOR URBAN KNOWLEDGE ACTION AND RESEARCH (PUKAR)

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.