Knowledge

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.

Highlighted Publications

Brochure
Quality of Life Initiative - Brochure
13 February 2024
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.
Paper
A Brief History of Quality of Life: From Aristotle to the Present, Evolution of a Concept at the Core of Human Development
13 February 2024
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.
Paper
A Fresh Perspective on Measuring Quality of Life: Initial Process to Conceptualise a Universal Tool to Measure Quality of Life in Cities
13 February 2024
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.
Paper
Harmonizing Our Knowledge: A Look Across the Quality of Life Initiative
13 February 2024
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.