02/04/2026
The quality of your data is only as good as the diversity of voices behind it.
When people with mental health conditions and psychosocial disabilities are excluded from monitoring and evaluating social protection programmes, we don't just lose their perspective, we lose accuracy. We miss barriers that never make it into reports. We design solutions for a version of the problem that isn't quite real.
Equity-focused guidelines on issues like the disability employment gap, school dropout rates, and poverty need to be built and assessed with the communities they serve. That's not idealism but good governance.
What would change in your community if lived experience were treated as expertise?
