This brief ‘imagines’ an innovative and systematic approach that reconciliation mechanisms like the NPRC could consider (among other tools) to ensure responsive and effective strategies to address gender needs – while enabling increased participation of women and girls. In doing so, it theorizes on the utility of ‘design-thinking’ as a systematic methodology that adopts a human-centered approach through empathy. This entails the needs of target groups being met by prototyping solutions before they are deployed at scale.