The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is planning to pilot this approach over the next few years. We hope it will provide away to integrate poor people’s own priorities and values into development decision-making. And if it doesn’t, it will at least make it more obvious when policy-makers aren’t giving people what they want. Which would be a start.
Their answers have allowed researchers to assign “weights” to each combination of different outcomes – numbers that can guide policy. These are now being used to measure outcomes and to inform the deliberations of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) when deciding if a particular treatment is good value for money.
