Measuring self-reliance among refugee and internally displaced households: the development of an index in humanitarian settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Humanitarian practitioners have recently expanded their focus from the provision of assistance only to working to ensure refugees and internally displaced peoples (IDPs) can develop sustained 'self-reliance'. However, few tools measure self-reliance, and even fewer capture non-financial dimensions of self-reliance or measure the construct within refugee and IDP populations. To help address these gaps in measurement and provide organizations with a tool to track households' self-reliance over time, the Self-Reliance Index (SRI) was developed. The index component of the tool comprises 12 domains of self-reliance, including housing, food, education, healthcare, health status, safety, employment, financial resources, assistance, debt, and savings, and social capital. This pa

SUBMITTER: Seff I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8272264 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature