This book provides practical guidance for integrating wellbeing or quality of life in social or development policy and practice.
Human development may encompass social, cultural and spiritual facets as well as economic improvement, and development organizations are beginning to recognize this fact.
But building into programming a wider understanding of development throws up a number of questions:
How do our organizations define wellbeing and quality of life?
What do communities in the global north or south mean by a quality of life?
How can we measure change in wellbeing, and attribute it to our programming?
The main body of the book presents different tools that have been developed and used in social and development policy and practice and outlines the inspiration behind their approach, how it works, what has been learnt through it, and issues and dilemmas that remain.
Edited by Sarah C. White with Asha Abeyasekera.