The ISHS Community Action Research Programme (CARP) contributes to the South African and global knowledge of transdisciplinary, community engaged injury prevention and safety interventions. CARP is positioned as a community-based action research initiative, and is focused on building, supporting and engaging communities exposed to different forms of violence and injury to promote safety, peace and liberatory, sustainable praxis. CARP brings together critical epistemological expertise, activism and networks of care to focus on the development, implementation, evaluation and adoption of home, preschool and community interventions. The programme contributes to the implementation sciences, as well as towards the stimulation of key services in marginalised, underserved communities.