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Doing research and advocacy for the disability and the LGBTQIA+ communities require more people with lived experiences. Thus, voices from within the communities can represent it best. Sangath is proud to announce iHEAR Peers for Equity (P4E), a community Peer-led initiative where we aim to co-create spaces to develop a cohort of researcher-advocates from both communities through a combination of a short digital course on evidence-based advocacy that is free to access and subsequently a mentored fellowship.
The P4E digital course aims to give community members the tools needed to conduct an action-based project and/ or evidence-based advocacy in the disability LGBTQIA+ communities.
The course comprises short videos of 10-20 minutes each, delivered in simple English, for people without or with minimal prior exposure to research. These videos will be done by people from the communities with research and advocacy experience. We envisage 10 hours of pre-recorded videos and 4 live webinars of 2 hours each delivered over 4 weeks
To give community members the tools needed to conduct an action-based project and/ or evidence-based advocacy in the disability, LGBTQIA+ communities.
Who all can apply?
This course is exclusively for people from the Disability Community and LGBTQAIP+ Community who has zero to little experience in research and advocacy. Applications are closed.
About the fellowship
A small section (25 participants) of the cohort of participants who performed well in the digital course, expressed enthusiasm and initiative as well as were willing to invest their time were offered the opportunity to join a mentorship program where they were guided in developing a fellowship output such as a research proposal, evidence-based advocacy plam, policy brief, sensitization workshop plan. The fellows were also provided with the following during their Fellowship program:
First Cohort of P4E Fellowship
The first cohort of the P4E fellowship consists of 23 fellows pan who are mentored by 7 advocates, researchers, and activists from Disability communities and LGBTQAIP+ communities who are doing grass root research and evidence-based advocacy for the respective communities. The fellows were hosted at iHEAR Sangath partner organizations across the country and worked on their fellowship outputs, such as research proposals, advocacy plans, policy briefs, and sensitization workshop plans.
For any queries, write to us at admin.bhopal@sangath.in
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