Programmes

People and Wellbeing

We work to define and measure wellbeing, provide insights on its determinants, and advocate for citizens to play a greater role in the cocreation of a sustainable society. We also seek to understand public resistance to the sustainability transformation.

Overview

Forum for Caring Societies

Care-Centred Economies

IF4SL: Innovation Fund for Sustainable Living

The Compass

F4SL: Funders for Sustainable Living Network

Happy Planet Index

Philanthropy in the Age of Excess

Let’s Talk About Wellbeing

Can Citizens Define a New Social Contract?

A Wellbeing Economy for Germany?

What are really the countries with the best quality of life?

Is Finland really the happiest country? And if so, at what cost to our planet?

ideasforgood.jp

The 2024 Planet Happiness Rankings show wealth beyond economic development

How releasing our ‘inner artist’ can help keep us calm

islandsbusiness.com

Vanuatu celebrates top ranking in Happy Planet Index

lloydalter.substack.com

The Happy Planet Index measures what matters

elperiodico.com

Spain, the seventh happiest country in the world, according to an international ranking

Higher consumption fails to improve well being, says Happy Planet Index

Background Paper: Making ‘Care Work’ Work

Philanthropy in the Age of Excess: Survey of Funders’ Attitudes on Overconsumption

Measuring eudaimonic components of subjective well-being: Updated evidence to inform national data collections

Inside the minds of citizens: Interpretations of today’s social contract in France and the UK

Towards a 21st Century Social Contract: How Did We Get Here?

Wellbeing Economy Ideas for Cities: Lessons for Implementation

New metrics for sustainable prosperity: Options for GDP+3

The 2024 Happy Planet Index

Grassroots Organising of Unpaid Care Workers for Caring Societies in Mexico and Latin America

Towards Caring Societies – A Call to Action

Caring: A Solution for Our Societies in Crisis

Economies that Dare to Care: Achieving Social Justice and Preventing Ecological Breakdown by Putting Care at the Heart of our Societies

Dr. Saamah Abdallah

Programme Lead Sustainable Wellbeing

Hedda Roberts

Project Coordinator

Aimée Aguilar Jaber

Programmes Director