@Nonvicks Ochieng, this one lands close to home. Most of us have participated in extractive collection without intending to. The survivor gives the story, the agency gets the line in the donor report, and the community gets a summary they…

Extractive data collection can feel like a one-way street where survivors share traumatic details while agencies process numbers for donor reporting.

@Rhoda Nakhosi Nakhosi You’ve exposed the core political economy of global data standardisation. The \"module add-on\" is designed to keep local reality subordinate to global comparability unless we consciously break the hierarchy in how that data is governed and reported.To…

@Nonvicks Ochieng, your \"module add-on\" is the same core plus contextual structure @Henry Magoba proposed, so I will put the same question to you: has a contextual module ever fed back into the core? You describe the two layers as cleanly…

@Nonvicks Ochieng, your criterion of re-asking is justified only when it directly alters a safety plan, enables access to care, or evaluates whether an intervention is reducing risk or is admirably clear, but I want to test its edges. Longitudinal…

@Henry Magoba, I want to push on one phrase you used: \"continuity of relationship may reduce some risks, but it should not automatically lower the ethical threshold.\" I agree it should not automatically lower it  but I wonder whether the…

I think the critical issue is not whether the researcher or implementer “owns” the gap, but whether the system has been designed so that disclosure automatically creates responsibility and a pathway to action.A well-designed instrument should do more than document…

@Rhoda Nakhosi In longitudinal Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) research, repeated questioning is an active intervention that carries real risks of retraumatization, participant mistrust, and physical safety hazards if a perpetrator notices a pattern of visits. Re-asking women about violence…

@Rhoda Nakhosi When women describe context-specific forms of violence such as spiritual abuse, economic coercion, or community ostracism standardized Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) instruments (like the WHO Multi-country Study or DHS domestic violence modules) routinely fail to capture them.…

@Rhoda Nakhosi When a real account of violence meets a fixed form, absorbing the disclosure into the nearest available category creates a double harm: it invalidates the survivor\'s lived reality and creates sanitized datasets that blind programs to how harm actually…

Charles, your point about the peer holding it first while the program owns it structurally highlights the exact breakdown point in most systems.The gap between better datasets and better care usually opens up during the administrative handoff. When an instrument…

That\'s exactly the right question, and the honest answer is: the peer holds it first, but the program owns it structurally. The peer agent is the one who initially receives and acts on the disclosure — that\'s deliberate, because the…

@Charles Bawate, \"the fix isn\'t better categories, it is building the ongoing capacity to notice when reality keeps exceeding them\" is the line I will be quoting. But I want to push on what that capacity actually requires in practice. Recording…

Dr. Magoba, I agree the cascade can make leakage visible but I\'d push on one thing: visibility isn\'t the same as action. A cascade that shows 40% of referrals never reach a service is still just a number until someone…

@Charles Bawate, your \"who benefits from not collecting it\" is the question that reframes the whole thread. I want to  add that the incentive runs deeper than cost, it\'s also reputational. A full cascade makes leakage visible, and leakage is…