ITCA NARCH 12 Capacity Building Core

NARCH XII Capacity Building Project: Building our Tribes’ Capacity to Initiate Community-Based Research Abstract Building on the expertise of the Arizona Tribal Research Review Board being developed by the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA) through NARCH XI, this project will provide funding and extensive mentorship to Arizona Tribes to initiate research projects in their own communities. During the project period, ITCA will fund up to ten Arizona Tribes to develop, implement, and evaluate their own community-based research projects. ITCA funding of the community projects will be through a competitive process that is based on evidence of the project’s feasibility and the community’s resources to accomplish their research objectives. The funded Tribes will receive technical assistance and mentoring from a team of American Indian researchers at the University of Arizona with research expertise and a track record of writing and implementing successful research studies with Tribal communities. The UA research team will provide supplemental assistance to up to two projects that show readiness for submission to a national funding agency.