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, Netherlands – Building a Sharing Economy

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Amsterdam, Netherlands – Measuring a Wellbeing Economy

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Amul Milk – The World’s Largest Milk Cooperative

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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

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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Finland – the ‘Economy of Wellbeing’

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Finland – Universal Basic Income Pilot

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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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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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La Paz, Bolivia – “Neighbourhoods of the Truth”

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Linwood, Scotland – Community Wealth Building’ tags=’Wellbeing Business

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Locavore – Local Food Production and Distribution

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LOVE (Life Opportunities Valuing Everyone) – Social Business Model

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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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Mondragón Corporation – Employee Ownership

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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

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New Zealand – Tackling Child Poverty

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New Zealand – The Just Transitions Unit

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

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Panama – Multidimensional Poverty Index

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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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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’ tags=’Wellbeing Policy Design

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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’ tags=’Wellbeing Policy Design

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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)

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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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Unusual Rigging (Unusual) – Closing Material Loops

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Utah, USA – “How We Grow Matters”

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Wales – Coordination & Alignment of Implementation towards Wellbeing Goals

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

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Using green technology to foster technology transfers in Africa

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

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