Knowledge is a central component of the Quality of Life Initiative. How knowledge is captured, organized, shared and applied is crucial to ensuring that the innovative tool at the center of the initiative is scaled up and scaled out across municipalities around the world. Local leaders need the guidance, methodologies and capacity building tools to ensure that they are relevant and applicable to them and their constituents.
The Quality of Life Initiative is developing a knowledge ecosystem which pulls together different threads of institutional engagement, advocacy, knowledge production, and of course the technical development of the monitoring tool itself. Understanding how these pieces interact with one another is key to understanding how the Quality of Life Initiative is working to concretely influence local and global policy agendas, through a human-centric approach to development.
The selection below is a growing collection of knowledge from the Quality of Life Initiative, which will continue to evolve and expand.
The position paper was developed by the academic community of practice of the Quality of Life Initiative and provides context, key takeaways and recommendations for cities and local leaders to use to inform policies that improve quality of life at the local level. The community of practice takes the position that a truly holistic vision of quality of life - and its understanding, measurement, and application - can provide a common thread through which ambitious, inclusive, resilient, sustainable development can progress at the scale and speed demanded by the urgency of the interlinked challenges faced today.
At its core, the Initiative features the development of an innovative, globally relevant, locally applicable index to evaluate and accelerate progress on local and global policy agendas around improving the quality of life in cities.
The present document is the first in a series which takes a closer look at how the Quality of Life Initiative is co-creating a more inclusive, human-centred vision of quality of life in cities. This series zooms in on different aspects of the Initiative, while presenting a coherent picture of how the different pieces come together.
The present document is the second in a series which takes a closer look at how the Quality of Life Initiative is co-creating a more inclusive, human-centred vision of quality of life in cities. This series zooms in on different aspects of the initiative, while presenting a coherent picture of how the different pieces come together.
The present document is the third in a series which takes a closer look at how the Quality of Life Initiative is co-creating a more inclusive, human-centered vision of quality of life in cities. This series zooms in on different aspects of the initiative, while taking care to present a coherent picture of how the different pieces come together.
