Measuring quality of life HI tools from Cambodia and India livelihood projects
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Measuring quality of lifeHI tools from Cambodia and India
livelihood projects
• “The quality of life is not only a result of income, but also a result of the capabilities a person has to influence her life, and the options among which the person had the opportunity to choose … »
1. Reference framework: capabilities approach to poverty
Cambodia• Phase one of the project included a QoL assessment focused on basic needs and assets• Monitor the improvements in the QoL of participants• Allowed analysis of correlation between characteristics of the person and IGA and increase on QoL • Phase two: updated the tool to include capacities and participation (process: FGD/field officers/QoL analysis/internal lessons learned/evaluation/national standards ID Poor/existing tools)• All participants in the project
2. How it was designed and is being used
Microsoft Excel Worksheet
Adobe Acrobat Document
India
• Adapted from the HI Cambodia tool
• Used same categories, adapted criteria and scores
• Selected number of beneficiaries (50/300)
• Currently being tested
UNESCAP: zoom out
• Basis for research questionnaires in 9 countries Asia Pacific : (income + assets, capacities, participation)
Microsoft Excel Worksheet
Adobe Acrobat Document
Area of assessment
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
Category
Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
HH Budget
Evolution of HH over a year
Education
% children missed more than one month at school
Food ability to access enough food all year
Health access to quality medical care
Housing general condition of the house
E.Equip # owned by house
Area of assessment: Basic needs CRPD Art 28
Area of assessment
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Technical and business skills to manage and IGA
* Person’s assessment of her own skills
Ability to invest in key areas of life
* Person’s assessment of her own ability
Self-confidence
* Person’s assessment of her own capacity to find solution to problems
Area of assessment: Capacities
Area of assessment
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Participation in family life
* Participation in family events
Social network
* Counting on a network of persons
Participation in community life
* Participation in social, cultural, religious events, valued by the person
Participation in political life
* Participation in political life and decision-making
Area of assessment: Participation CRPD Art 3, 4, 29, 30
Area of assessment
Category Criteria Scores
1 2 3 4
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General Overall satisfaction with life
Very dissastified
Dissatisfied
Satisfied Very satisfied
3. Added value for HI• Includes objective and subjective measures• Is designed with the informed input of persons
with disabilities, all while taking into account info important for HI and international standards
• Allows for some comparability• Easily adaptable to the context• Allows to monitor the progress of a person +
elements to analyze the whole project• Can link to CRPD specific articles / monitoring
4. Limits / questions• Nothing is disability-specific!• Considered complex by some programs• May be seen as “yet another monitoring tool”• Need to plan for someone to carry out analysis of information +
make sure that it is adapted to the context• Includes change not necessarily linked to the project / so far has not
included a witness group (other PwD or persons with no disabilities)• Based more on interest of individuals than TRD
position/recommendation///• Basic needs section: focused on family or individual?• Participation: more participation or choice to participate?///• Generic tool finalization / other categories (eg water and sanitation?)
Exercise
• Are all these relevant?
• What is missing?
• Suggest some criteria for each category
• Report on ideas and discussion
Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet
Summary of tools
• HI Cambodia QoL tool
• HI India QoL tool
• Generic tool / UNESCAP
• Guideline for field officers (ongoing)
• Note on the shift from v1 to v2 HI Cambodia
…. Way forward…?