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Thank you Rhoda and Nonvicks for this rich pushback — you both moved my thinking forward.Rhoda, thank you for naming the fault line so clearly. I agree: frontline observation becomes evidence the moment we design it to be traceable —…
Thank you Rhoda for sitting with my reflection so deeply. I appreciate how you picked the ECR lens and the fathers in formation framing — that means a lot.You are right, the lesson outlives school. That is what we see…
@Rhoda Nakhosi Thank you for spotlighting this crucial reality the fear of community surveillance, clinic-associated stigma, and parental disclosure in many African contexts is indeed a massive barrier that keeps young people from walking through clinic doors. To your question, digital…
@Rhoda Nakhosi you’ve pinpointed where standard interventions fracture. Monthly absence tracking flags girls still fighting to attend, but misses the chronic drift toward dropout where missed days lead to poor exam performance, disengagement, and quiet attrition. Catching this requires linking attendance…
@Charles Frontline observations must be treated as formal sentinel data, not mere anecdote. Lived experience legitimately triggers revalidation when field teams see recurring patterns across districts, when workers must rely on operational workarounds, or when structural conditions like cash-transfer policies or…
@Rhoda Nakhosi The deferral of social stakes is a genuine risk that tips from a helpful trade-off into harm whenever AI becomes a terminal destination rather than a rehearsal. Externalizing pain to an algorithm can lower the barrier to eventually confiding…
@Rhoda Nakhosi Spot-on challenges. Both tokenism and staff burnout are real risks if this isn\'t structured intentionally.On genuine youth involvement: It fails when it’s treated as a one-off focus group or a wish list that gets ignored. It works when youth…
@Charles Bawate Bawate, that\'s a real refinement, and \"necessary but not sufficient\" is the honest version. But I want to press on condition 2, because I think it\'s the one carrying the most weight and the least certainty.You say 50…
@Charles Bawate Anyama, this is the fullest answer anyone has given to my original question. But I want to test the parenting argument, because I think it lets our institutions off slightly too easily.You say we raised children to fear vulnerability,…
@Charles Bawate \"Dignity by design\" is a phrase I\'ll be borrowing and I like that you\'ve drawn the boundary at nutrition first rather than nutrition only. The club-linkage idea is smart because it answers my worry about workload without dropping…
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Fortunate This is the question that defines our generation of African researchers. Why does Africa publish evidence about its own young people, yet policy for those young people is still imported?At Purpose Rwanda, we have learned this: The gap between…
Rhoda Nakhosi Powerful framing. At Purpose Rwanda in Kigali, we see school meals doing silent mental health work.When adolescents — especially girls — feel safe, dignified, and included at the table, attendance becomes belonging.I vote: Double duty, but with boundaries.1. Stay…
Thank you Rhoda for sitting with this uncomfortable truth. I have been sitting with it too since your workshop note, and I want to offer a different lens.Young people are not choosing ChatGPT over peers. They are choosing a non-relationship…
Thank you Rhoda for pushing on this — you\'re right, it\'s not automatic at all.I said \"If we own our local relevance, global visibility will follow.\" On reflection, that was hopeful. For local relevance to CONVERT to global discovery, I…
@Charles Bawate, the three-part structure you\'ve sketched (a named Community Sensing Lead, a monthly trigger that automatically opens a revalidation check, and custodianship inside local institutions) is the most concrete formalisation anyone has offered, and I\'d only add one thing:…
@Charles Bawate you\'ve put your finger on the fault line that runs through most evidence systems: frontline observation is treated as anecdote precisely because it arrives informally, not because it\'s weak. My view is that lived experience should count as…
@Charles Bawate, thank you for registering, and I\'m glad the citizen science and gender transformative framing resonated. You\'ve picked out exactly the thread I hope the session pulls on: the gap between disaggregated baseline data and the lived experiences behind…
@Charles Bawate, \"invisible by both design and neglect, but more by neglect of our own ecosystem\" is an honest framing you\'ve offered in this thread, because it refuses the comfortable option of blaming the algorithm alone. Your discoverability vs intent…
@Charles Bawate, your point on \"identification happens through relationship, not registration\" answers my question better than I could have hoped. It also explains why stigma doesn\'t follow the PAT route in the same way: the entry point is friendship, not a…