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Received: 7 July 2025

Accepted: 16 January 2026

First Online: 26 February 2026

Declarations

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: Not applicable as the work reported here relates to the planning stages for research. The ongoing research that this work relates to has ethical approval granted by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee (protocol reference 24-018).

: Not applicable – the data presented in this manuscript is not traceable to any individual.

: Miriam Taegtmeyer (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Rachel Tolhurst (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Gillian Kyalo (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Amina Ismail (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine); Mike Morris (Writing on the Wall); Madeline Heneghan (Writing on the Wall); Natalie Denny (Writing on the Wall); Amanda Fulford (Edge Hill University); Sarah Maclennan (Liverpool John Moores University) Victoria I. Ekpo (Edge Hill University); Vicki Doyle (Capacity Development International); Ema Kelly (Capacity Development International); Kim Ozano (The Stop, Collaborate and Listen Agency Ltd); Sarah Glover (The Stop, Collaborate and Listen Agency Ltd).

: MM and MH are co-directors of Writing on the Wall, a National Portfolio organisation of Arts Council England and a not-for-profit, social enterprise and company limited by guarantee with charitable status, which hosts Liverpool’s longest-running writing festival. KO and SG are directors at The Stop, Collaborate and Listen Agency Ltd, which delivers research, evaluation, capacity strengthening, and connects research to practice. AJ is Co-Artistic Director (Research Lead) at Collective Encounters Theatre for Social Change, an arts charity with a free participatory theatre programme across the Liverpool City Region. EK and VD are co-directors of Capacity Development International, which provides expertise in capacity strengthening, quality improvement, mixed methods evaluations, strategy, monitoring & evaluation, and institutional development.