Prompting the Village: AI as a Catalyst for Youth-Led Structural Accountability

Evaluation data in the Global South is frequently highly extractive. Data is sourced from marginalized communities and locked within dense, 60-page donor PDFs that the community, especially the youth never reads or benefits from. To move young people up Roger Hart’s "Ladder of Participation," they must be granted democratic access to the data that governs their lives.

This session explores how AI can radically democratize M&E data to fuel "unpermissioned" civic action. We will demonstrate how grassroots evaluators and creative practitioners can utilize AI to rapidly translate dense evaluation findings into accessible, culturally resonant formats from policy briefs to cinematic impact storytelling scripts. By equipping youth with the tools to "prompt" their own community data, we transition them from passive beneficiaries of state programs to active architects of accountability, empowering them to utilize constitutional frameworks to demand systemic change.