Group for Observation, Action, and Monitoring (GOAS)

The human rights and gender perspectives in which the programme is framed are transversal throughout the (Tr)african(t)s project. In order to incorporate this perspective, two coordination groups have been created to guarantee it in all the research and dissemination activities planned, as well as in the organizational dynamics of the work team. On the other hand, the research group and its coordinating body have a fundamental limitation, which is that they are made up of a majority of white male and female researchers with no biographical connections to the territories of origin of the heritage under study. For this reason, it was decided to create an external advisory and participation team, called the Group for Observation, Action, and Monitoring [GOAS, Grup d’Observació, Acció i Seguiment], composed of four specialists in the field of activism, decolonial research, and anti-racist research linked to the diaspora collectives targeted by this project: Cheikh Drame, Gemma Ferreón, Karessa Malaya i Esther Mayoko. The purpose of the group is to make epistemic evaluations and recommendations on the different criteria, contents, and results of the programme; not to legitimize the project’s discourses, but to construct the research process from diverse epistemologies.