Community Engagement Working Group

The Community Engagement Working Group is developing a toolkit to support researchers in meaningfully engaging affected communities across the entire research value chain from design to communicating findings. The working group will pilot the toolkit in Africa and Asia.

How can people join or participate in WG activities:
We invite people based in Africa and Asia to test the newly developed Community Engagement 4 CSID Toolkit as part of the pilot phase of development between May and August 2026. People should have a small project already in mind and not already be community engagement experts. People will be asked to use the Toolkit to develop their idea and run their activity. They should provide feedback on the Toolkit to the Working Group by September. A small stipend will be available to help run the activity. Because funding for the pilots is limited, we also welcome volunteer projects to test the toolkit.

We invite volunteers to review the toolkit before it is published. Reviewing will take approximately 2 hours towards the end of September. Feedback will be consolidated through a feedback template.

How can people get in touch with you: [email protected]