Table 2 Phases of theory development

Initial

If WFP supports its staff, through a phased roll-out with tailored training, to disaggregate its data by disability, then it will become more disability inclusive by empowering staff and revealing gaps and needs.

Refined

IF WFP supports its staff, through a phased roll-out with tailored training, to disaggregate it’s data by disability and collect qualitative data on barriers, THEN some WFP country offices will become more disability inclusive by empowering staff, revealing gaps and needs, and drawing funding towards DI, BECAUSE the data will demonstrate exclusion to an engaged and empowered audience, along with the necessary information to act.

Rival

In contexts of acute food security and high work demands on WFP staff, programs which require the collection of disability data, but which do not consider and co-create plans for collection and use (implementation) are likely to be considered by staff as a burden, increasing resistance, and are likely to be under-utilised or rejected for program adaptation.

Consolidated

WHEN the purpose of disability data is unambiguous and perceived as relevant, and when structures and resources can facilitate actioning data, and IF data disaggregation is applied by key staff according to this rationale, with system capacity to learn with experience, THEN implementation of data disaggregation can sustainably proliferate, AND over time will contribute to more systematically inclusive action.