This guide aims to draw out the principles, behaviours and mindsets that underpin lived experience work. In policy-making, lived experience usually refers to people with personal experience who interact with a policy in their daily lives.

This report considers the role of lived experience evidence and co-production in disability policymaking in Wales. The report finds that people have different understandings of what lived experience and co-production mean in disability policymaking.

Indigenous people living with disability experience issues related to racism, ableism and colonisation, impacting on wellbeing and life outcomes. More research using intersectionality embedded with decolonising knowledges and Indigenous standpoints on disability, led by those with lived experience, is needed.

This report is the culmination of a two-year collaborative project between RMIT University's Innovation Catalyst and The Constellation Project, which focused on reviewing, further developing, and sharing Constellation’s model of lived experience inclusion.

This report provides crucial evidence to support the implementation of the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032's opening imperative. It offers recommendations for developing and reforming public policy through co-production with survivors of gender-based violence.