Measuring quality of life
HI tools from Cambodia and India
livelihood projects
1. Reference framework: capabilities
approach to poverty
• “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 … »
2. How it was designed and is being used
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
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)
Area of
assessment
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
2
3
4
CRPD Art 28
Area of assessment: Basic needs
Categor
y
Criteria
Scores
1
HH
Budget
Evolution of HH over a year
Educatio % children missed more than
one month at school
n
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
2
3
4
Area of
assessment
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
2
3
4
Area of assessment: Capacities
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
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
Selfconfidence
* Person’s
assessment of
her own capacity
to find solution to
problems
2
3
4
Area of
assessment
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
2
3
4
CRPD Art 3, 4, 29, 30
Area of assessment: Participation
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
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 decisionmaking
2
3
4
Area of
assessment
Category
Criteria
Scores
1
2
3
4
Basic needs
Capacities
Participation
General
Overall
satisfaction
with life
Very
Dissatisfi
dissastifi ed
ed
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
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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
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• Basic needs section: focused on family or individual?
• Participation: more participation or choice to participate?
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• Generic tool finalization / other categories (eg water and sanitation?)
Exercise
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Are all these relevant?
What is missing?
Suggest some criteria for each category
Report on ideas and discussion
Summary of tools
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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…?