Caregivers Employed: Total (OI5323)

In the health context, this metric is intended to capture the number of individuals employed who provide preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and promotional health services. Examples of caregivers include doctors, nurses, clinicians, and community health workers. Caregivers need not necessarily be certified or licensed.

In the education context, this metric is intended to capture the number of individuals employed who provide care and learning opportunities to children, particularly in early childhood. Examples of caregivers in education include pre-kindergarten teachers and daycare providers, among others.

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. It may help describe the WHO dimension when the stakeholder group represented by the metric is the stakeholder group targeted by the investment or organization. It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.