Analyse and reflect with people with disability

Once your engagement has concluded, consider how to include people with disability in analysing the information you received and how you might increase participation or inclusion in future activities.

Include people with disability in the analysis phase of your activity. This respects the autonomy of your participants and may help to maintain the trust of the people with disability you engaged. Including people with disability in your analysis phase may mean your findings, analysis, evaluation, and decisions are more representative of participants and possibly of other people within the disability community.

How to engage people with disability in analysis

Aim to include people with disability in the analysis of information you collect during your activity. When you involve, collaborate with or empower people with disability in your project or activity according to the IAP2 Spectrum, you should include people with disability in your analysis phase.

What you must do:

  • Follow general good practice to ensure your activity or project is accessible.
  • Provide sufficient time for participants to prepare before the analysis session.
  • Allow enough time and budget to ensure you can engage people with disability meaningfully in this phase.

Aim to:

  • Structure your team to include people with disability.
  • Build analysis activities into your activity design.
  • Allow enough time for participants to tell you how they would like to contribute to your analysis.
  • In analysis activity, engage people with disability who are participants, specialists, and advocates.

Relevant pages

Context: Define the level of participation

Design: Start by thinking about accessible design

Design: Consider time and costs

Plan: Give participants clear information in advance

Ways to engage people with disability in analysis

  • Present your findings and analysis to participants in a way that suits them, then ask for their feedback. Provide accessible options for people to provide their feedback.
  • Hold a showcase of the findings.
  • Co-design a session (for example, a workshop) for you to analyse the findings together.
  • Analyse the findings with an advisory group and/or some participants.