Shaping policy processes through citizen voice in Francophone West Africa: the arts as a vehicle for knowledge co-construction

通过西非法语区公民的声音塑造政策流程：艺术作为知识共建的工具

基本信息

批准号：
AH/T008458/1
负责人：
Imogen Bellwood-Howard
金额：
$ 6.85万
依托单位：
Institute of Development Studies
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT008458%2F1
关键词：
Shaping policy processes through citizen

项目摘要

This networking activity convenes research, policy, cultural and community engagement organisations from across Sahelian Francophone West Africa. In this context, many citizens have minimal opportunity to contribute to governance processes, and their voices are seldom heard in deliberative spaces. Meanwhile, creative and artistic methods such as music and drawing have been used elsewhere to represent citizen voice to policy, in ways which could be conceptualised as storytelling, such as photovoice, digital storytelling or participatory filmmaking. Co-creation of such outputs often occurs between participants and researchers. As a rich tradition of storytelling exists in West Africa, this network aims to discover whether artistic and cultural methods can be used similarly here and, going further, whether policy makers themselves can engage with communities and artists to co-create understanding about issues of mutual concern.The core group of interdisciplinary researchers from five research institutions will map policy and civil society stakeholders, as well as arts professionals. A subset will be interviewed to understand the conditions under which artistic co-creation could be possible. A further subset of interviewees will be invited to convene the wider network and participate in a workshop, where the answers to these questions, and to the overall research objective, will be debated. Part of the workshop will involve an activity where policy makers and community and advocacy representatives attempt to co-create understanding about an issue of concern through a pre-determined but flexible creative activity, facilitated by artists, termed 'storytellers' in the context of this activity and workshop. The answers to questions and the results of the debate will be processed by IDS into a working paper and a policy brief. The artists will work to create a communicable set of outputs from the creative activity. These will be publicised through traditional and modern media, from radio to Instagram. Thereby, awareness of the agenda will be raised among other relevant organisation, who may be able to participate in researching them further, or adapting the techniques trialled in the practical domain.Capacity of the network members will be raised, but through the dissemination activities, the wider public and policy, advocacy and research communities will become aware of the network and the potentials for developing this kind of work.

这项网络活动召集了来自萨赫勒法语西非法语的研究，政策，文化和社区参与组织。在这种情况下，许多公民有很少的机会为治理过程做出贡献，并且在审议空间中很少听到他们的声音。同时，音乐和绘画之类的创造性和艺术方法已在其他地方用来代表政策的公民声音，这些方式可以被概念化为讲故事，例如光载，数字讲故事或参与性电影制作。这种输出的共同创建通常发生在参与者和研究人员之间。由于西非存在着一种悠久的讲故事的传统，该网络旨在发现在这里是否可以类似地使用艺术和文化方法，并且进一步发展，政策制定者本身是否可以与社区和艺术家互动，以共同创建对相互问题的理解关注。来自五个研究机构的跨学科研究人员的核心小组将绘制政策和民间社会利益相关者以及艺术专业人员的绘制。将采访一个子集，以了解艺术共同创造的条件。将邀请更多的受访者召集更广泛的网络，并参加研讨会，在该研讨会上，这些问题的答案以及对整体研究目标的答案将进行辩论。研讨会的一部分将涉及一项活动，政策制定者，社区和倡导代表试图通过预定但灵活的创意活动共同创造对关注问题的理解，这是由艺术家促进的，在此背景下称为“讲故事的人”活动和研讨会。问题和辩论结果的答案将由ID将其处理成工作文件和政策摘要。艺术家将努力从创意活动中创建一组传染性的输出。这些将通过传统和现代媒体（从广播到Instagram）进行宣传。因此，将在其他相关组织中提高对议程的认识，他们可能能够进一步研究它们，或者调整在实际领域中试用的技术。更广泛的公共和政策，倡导和研究社区将意识到网络以及开发此类工作的潜力。