1. Measuring what matters Elijah Bisung Post-doctoral Fellow Geography & Environmental Management University of Waterloo September 18, 2015

2. Global risks landscape

3. How do we measure the impacts ?

4. …the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials…It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile…(Robert F. Kennedy, 1968)

5. Global Initiatives

7. GDP+ Measures of wellbeing ***GDP plus other basic indices (e.g. education, health) 1. Human Development Index 2. Inclusive Wealth Index HDI :  Life expectancy at birth Knowledge  Mean years of schooling  Expected years of schooling Standard of living  GNI per Capita (PPP $)

8. GDP++ Measures of wellbeing GDP+ plus broader economic welfare indicators that combine wealth distribution adjustments, and natural, social, and human capital adjustments 1. Gender Inequality Index 2. Adjusted Net Savings 3. The Genuine Progress Indicator 4. Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index 5. Multidimensional Poverty Index

9. Subjective wellbeing 1. Australian Unity Well-Being Index 2. World Happiness Report

10. Subjective wellbeing Derived from domains and indices that require an individual to reflect on and evaluate their overall wellbeing, happiness or life satisfaction; these indices are typically based on the collection of primary data

11. E.g. Australia unity wellbeing index

12. Subjective wellbeing /Objective wellbeing 1. Happy Planet Index (HPI) Experienced well-being Life expectancy Ecological footprint 2. National Well-Being Index

13. Objective/Subjective measures of wellbeing 1.UK Index of Wellbeing 2. Gross National Happiness 3. Taiwan National Wellbeing Index 4.Gallup-Healthways Wellbeing Index 5. Happy Planet Index (HPI) 6. National Well-Being Index

14. Objective wellbeing measures Wellbeing MeasureTypeCountries Applied Sustainable Society Index Index151 countries Wellbeing of Nations Index180 countries Social Progress Index Index132 countries Australian National Development Index IndexAustralia Measure of Australia’s Progress Dash- board Australia New Zealand Social Report Dash- board New Zealand Canadian Index of Wellbeing IndexCanada Focused on environment In progress Dash-board

15. Example of dash-board & Index Measures of Australia Progress Canadian Index of Wellbeing

16. Canadian Index of Wellbeing Framework Living Standards Canadian Index of Wellbeing Time Use Community Vitality Democratic Engagement Education Environment Healthy Populations Leisure and Culture

17. Canadian Index of Wellbeing Framework

18. Trends in domains of wellbeing…

19. Life expectancy Self-rated health Incidence of diabetes Teen smoking Flu shot Hlth. services rating Depression Years good health Trends in Healthy Populations domain…

20. GLOWING  East African region  West Africa (Ghana)  South Africa  The Caribbean  Economies that are particularly vulnerable…

21.  A tool to track progress/change…  Social  Health  Economic  Environmental  Cultural  Political  A tool to gauge the impact of (policy) intervention(s)  Co-production of solutions-oriented knowledge through a transdisciplinary network

22. Public Consultations Collaborative development Community organisations government agencies Academics, researchers 2015

24. As we try to measure what matters..… 1.What the numbers represent 2.Making the measures matter 3.Ways of knowing

25. Dr. Susan J. Elliott Dr. Bryan Smale GLOWING research team Acknowledgements