Sustainable Development and Beyond
Thousands of ecovillages in 114 countries showcase solutions to all of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and employ dozens of climate change reduction
strategies, all integrated together. GEN documents and shares this collective knowledge to increase the impact of government programmes across sectors.
Transforming Existing Villages
The Ecovillage Development Programme (EDP) works with governments to transform traditional villages into regenerative
resilient communities. The process guides communities to identify opportunities for positive change in their social, cultural,
ecological, and economic practices, and to develop a custom palette of solutions, drawing from GEN’s worldwide network and
from local and regional experts. GEN and its local partners then facilitate a process to manifest the demand-driven changes.
Cross-Sector Integration
In addition to the EDP, we have also collaborated with Ministries of Education on school curricula and projects, worked with
local governments on crisis response and recovery, and integrated climate adaptation and mitigation throughout our work.
Our programmes span these areas and more:
Economic development
Working with communities to identify and develop regenerative social enterprises
Climate change
Ecovillages integrate climate resilience into their design and practice dozens of low-cost adaptation and mitigation strategies
Women and youth
Including women and youth in community decision-making processes
Participatory design
Introducing communities, civil society organisations, and government officials to participatory integral design processes to guide development plans
Crisis response
Integrating response, recovery, and regeneration across sectors
Appropriate technology
Building capacity in technology such as rocket stoves, biogas, solar energy, and more, integrating solutions across sectors
School gardens and nutrition
Healthy food and healthy communities start with kids
Ecotourism
Building ecotourism programs that create lasting social, cultural, ecological, and economic benefits
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Ecovillage Basics
What are ecovillages, and how does GEN use the wisdom from ecovillages to catalyze global change? Read more in our annual report.
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Learn about the EDP
Watch a short video about the Ecovillage Development Programme, our flagship initiative for transitioning existing villages into greater resilience.
Examples of our work
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how our consultants could support your plans.
Our packages range from an initial assessment for £200 up
to our comprehensive integral design consultation for £5,000.
Our consultants are based all over the world and have a wide
variety of expertise spanning the four Areas of Regeneration.
See our consultancy services in every Area of Regeneration –
social, cultural, ecological, economic, and integral design.
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