This work addresses the recurring implementation gap between climate or public policy design and real-world delivery conditions. Many programmes fail not because of strategy intent, but because operational realities, user constraints, and frontline feedback become filtered out through reporting structures, performance metrics, and procurement systems before they influence decision-making. The Ground-Truth Governance framework responds to this structural disconnect by providing a diagnostic method to trace where lived experience is lost within institutional processes and to support more reliable, usable, and trusted policy delivery.