Abu Dhabi’s Department of Community Development (DCD) will collaborate with as much as 41 stakeholders during its initial stage of the “Family Quality of Life Strategy” initiative formed to improve the quality of life of Abu Dhabi’s families, the Youth and senior citizens.
The project will study and identify the current challenges, and develop initiatives that contribute to ensuring the quality of life for families, the Youth and senior citizens.
DCD has identified Abu Dhabi’s families, the Youth, and the Senior Citizens as three main segments which will be focused on the Family Exploratory Study which will be based on scientific-based methodologies such as the Quality of Life survey.
Representations at the 1st technical committee meeting
Abu Dhabi Executive Office
Family Development Foundation
Abu Dhabi Youth Council
Human Resource Authority
Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority
Judicial Department
Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an
Social Care and Minors Affairs Foundation and
Dar Zayed for Family Care
Dr. Bushra Al Mulla, Executive Director of the Community Development Sector at DCD, stated, “The initial stage of this project is to study and identify the current challenges, and develop initiatives that contribute to ensuring the quality of life for families, the youth and senior citizens, based on scientific-based methodologies.”
Al Mulla stressed, “We are currently working on drawing the strategy, in cooperation with OECD studies, and support from experts at the Oxford Center for Quality of Life, United Arab Emirates University, Youth Policy Lab in Germany and the Laboratory for Ageing Research in Australia. Such cooperation aims in developing the strategy through introducing initiatives and sustainable programs that contribute to meeting current and future challenges to families in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.”
“The project will go through different stages and methodological plans over the coming months, starting from the stage of establishment through which the project will be developed, and then the evaluation to identify the challenges and current policies, also create innovative social services, which will be analyzed to identify the priorities to raise the findings and recommendations,” Dr. Bushra added.
