A Wellbeing Economy in Action

A Wellbeing Economy is both a desirable and a feasible goal.

Wellbeing Economy policies and activities are already successfully being implemented worldwide.

“Until we picture wellbeing in different local contexts, we will not know what it actually means.”

– Rehema Isa, Founder of Womenomics, South Africa

Case Studies

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Amsterdam Impact – A local government initiative to make the impact economy the new norm

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Building a Sharing Economy

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Clean Air Plan

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Measuring a Wellbeing Economy

Amul Milk – The World’s Largest Milk Cooperative

Auchrannie Resort, Scotland – Employee Ownership Resort

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Austria – Embedding Gender Equality into a Performance Budgeting Framework

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Barcelona, Spain – Using Technology for Wellbeing Economy Policy Design

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Barking and Dagenham, UK – Public Service Transformation Programme

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Ben & Jerry’s – Embedding Social Purpose into the Business

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Bhutan – Gross National Happiness Index

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Bukit-Batu, Indonesia – Participatory Community Development

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CARE Kenya – Waterguard

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Costa Rica – Investing in Social and Ecological Wellbeing

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Ecuador – Legislative and Regulatory Reform for Social and Environmental Rights

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Edmonton, Canada – Genuine Well-being Index

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El Salvador – Transforming the Economy

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England – Human-made wetlands

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England and Singapore – Innovation in industrial water use

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Finland – Investing in health literacy

Finland – the ‘Economy of Wellbeing’

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Finland – Universal Basic Income Pilot

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France and Sweden – Food waste reduction

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Futuro Forestal – Regenerative Timber Plantation Model

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Germany – National Dialogue on “What Matters to Us”’

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Guelph, Canada – Strategy Design for a Wellbeing Economy Food System

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Iceland – Policies to Promote Gender Equality

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Iceland – Wellbeing Framework

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Iceland – Policies for Economic Transformation

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India – Food waste solutions

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Indonesia – Institutional Alignment for Poverty Reduction

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Ireland – ‘Moving from GDP to Wellbeing’ in National Budget

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Italy – Equitable, Sustainable Wellbeing Indicators

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Kenya – Decentralising Policy Implementation

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Kitale, Kenya – Water provision through participation

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La Paz, Bolivia – “Neighbourhoods of the Truth”

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Linwood, Scotland – Community Wealth Building

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Locavore – Local Food Production and Distribution

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LOVE (Life Opportunities Valuing Everyone) – Social Business Model

Maroma – Business Embedded in the Community

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Mekong Region – Scenario-building for Wellbeing Visions

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Mexico – Poverty Reduction

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Milan, Italy – Urban Food Policy

Mondragón Corporation – Employee Ownership

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MOO Food – Achieving Heath and Environment benefits through community-level social mobilisation

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Netherlands – Reforming Ministries for Sustainable Growth

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New Zealand – Embracing Indigenous Perspectives of Wellbeing

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New Zealand – Implementing the Wellbeing Budget

New Zealand – Tackling Child Poverty

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New Zealand – The Just Transitions Unit

New Zealand and India – Granting legal status to rivers

North Ayrshire, Scotland – Policies for Community Wealth Building in Scotland

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Panama – Multidimensional Poverty Index

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Paris, France – A health-city in the making

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Patagonia – Stewardship Model

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Porto Alegre, Brazil – Continuous Innovations in Wellbeing Policy Design and Implementation

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Quindío, Colombia – Participatory Regional Development Planning

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Quito, Ecuador – Holistic teaching practices

Riversimple – Stewardship & Governance

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Santa Monica, California – Wellbeing Index

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Scotland – Building a Wellbeing Framework through Public Consultation

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Scotland – Wellbeing Report’

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South Africa – Holistic Evaluations for Energy Policy Reform

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South Korea – Participatory Budgeting/New Policy Design

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Spain – Living Minimum Income

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Stockton, California – The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED)

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The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Tony’s Chocolonely – Accounting for Impact

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UK – Allowing Space for Diversity of Local Economic Development Approaches

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UK – Building a Citizen’s Economic Council

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UK – Ethical / Mutual Banking Movement

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UK – Integrating Wellbeing into Policy Evaluations

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University Hospital, Leicester – Increasing recycling of hospital waste

Unusual Rigging (Unusual) – Closing Material Loops

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Utah, USA – “How We Grow Matters”

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Vermont, USA – Common Assets Trust

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Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal – a Gastronomic Charter for sustainable food systems

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Wales – Coordination & Alignment of Implementation towards Wellbeing Goals

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Wellbeing Economy Correspondents

Social Bite: Social Housing and the Wellbeing Economy

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How the Philippines is Using ‘Community Pantries’ to Address Socioeconomic Inequalities Amid the Pandemic

Grassroots, Local, WEAll News, Wellbeing, Wellbeing Economy Correspondents

Village In The City – Building micro-local community around the world

WEAll News, Wellbeing Economy Correspondents

Using green technology to foster technology transfers in Africa

WEAll News, WEAll Youth, Wellbeing Economy Correspondents

The wellbeing economy and an epic journey to Bhutan on a bicycle

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