ENACTUS TRAINING Measurement Tools Developed by D Caspersz amp D Bejr 2013 All enactus projects should meet the enactus judging criterion Considering the relevant economic social and environmental factors which enactus team ID: 616929
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Quality of Life and Standard of Living
ENACTUS
TRAINING
Measurement Tools
Developed by D
Caspersz
& D Bejr, 2013Slide2
All enactus projects should meet the enactus
judging criterion“Considering the relevant economic, social, and environmental factors, which enactus team
most effectively empowered people in need by applying business and economic concepts and an entrepreneurial approach to improve their quality of life and standard of living?”Slide3
Measuring Empowerment
One method of determining what social change has occur, or how empowered an individual or group of people have become, is to measure their quality of life or/and standard of living.Slide4
Variables that can be measured Slide5
Standard of Living is…
Tangible circumstances or variables in which people live, the goods and services they are able to consume and the economic resources they have access toSuch as material comforts, ease of living and opportunities for personal satisfaction.
Often ‘income based‘access’ and ‘affordability’ of items such as: - education or skills development
- health care and sanitation - materialistic comforts such as housing, clothes and transportation
- sufficient food Slide6
Quality of Life is…
Intangible variables regarding human welfare or well-being as measured by social indicators. This includes (but is not limited to) factors such as: - self-esteem - overall satisfaction of life
- working conditions - ability to care for one’s family - hope in life - acceptance in community, neighborhood and/or work environment Slide7
Comparing Quality of Life and Standard of Living
Quality of Life IntangibleOften socially basedSelf-esteemHope in lifeLife satisfaction
Standard
of Living
Tangible
Often income basedEducation attainedHealth care availableAccess to clean waterSlide8
Discuss…
What are the differences between quality of life and standard of living?By targeting one, do you think you will affect the other through your enactus project work?Do you target both at the same time?