About us

Billions of people in LMICs with marginalised identities (gender, sexuality, race, caste, religion, and disability) experience suboptimal outcomes across different domains in life.

This happens because of prejudice/bias on the one hand and poorly designed public and development programs/policies on the other that don’t take into account unique needs of these segments.

Despite their importance, such intersectional considerations often get overlooked in SDG activities, leading to gaps in addressing the challenges faced by marginalised groups.

Epistemic inclusion, or the integration of equity considerations in SDG research and program design, is vital going forward.

BelonggAI,  an innovative LLM-based tool, enables development practitioners, funders, and researchers to uncover how their work might be excluding these considerations and how it could be more inclusive of marginalised groups.

Our hope is to influence development researchers, practitioners and funders in diagnosing and adopting more equitable and inclusive approaches that better serve the needs of people with marginalised identities.

You can read more about our inclusive tech work here:
https://belongg.net/belongg-inclusive-tech/