ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses citizenship practices to reflecting on learning within the research process of exploring everyday citizenship. Participatory methodologies have advocated change in the power relationships between planners and workers, adult educators and learners, and development agents and their beneficiaries. According to M. Berryman et al., participatory research is a process rather than an event, one that begins and ends with “people”. The GROW project was interested in encounters involving nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) promoting some kind of active citizenship with local communities. Action for Development has conducted extensive citizenship activities and interventions in all five regions of Uganda, focusing on building the capacities of communities and leaders to promote good governance and to improve their socio-economic transformation. The NGO also has a participatory attitude and has built good relationships with communities, which presumably decreased the suspicion of community members towards us as researchers.
