Measuring quality of life HI tools from Cambodia and India livelihood projects

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

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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

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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…?