https://economicboard.org
1) us...Welcome to the EDBA project and community
EDBA: Economic Development Board Association
Developing Sustainable Local Economic Boards
Developing GREEN Local and Regions
CONNECTING THE DOTS IN TERRITORIES
a) What is the EDBA
It is a NGO registered in Dublin, an association for SUSTAINABLE LOCAL Economic boards internationally (SLEBs) wishing to ground Local Economic Development (LED) in their territories: area, villages, towns and cities, districts, regions etc..
Our vision is that SLEBs build towards a future that is smart, sustainable, healthy, prosperous and inclusive.
Our aim is to provide the practical supports for those who wish to establish and develop SLEBS4LED at all levels, from local, regional to national.
The Economic Development Board Association
• Helps LOCAL Economic boards grow and develop to become GREEN Economic Boards building a smart and sustainable future for their areas.
• Through this association boards can build larger and powerful consortiums by linking with members wider than its own community on joint projects to apply for funding/finance/private-public partnership.
• MyCommunity space and FinanceMarketplace space have been build for it online through a portal and apps,
• Through the EDBA network SLEBS can join groups with the same needs in different areas in a common project and this can be powerful.
• An inclusive SLEB can coordinate player from different sectors, such as the private sector, civil society, education, citizens and authorities, in a joint and inclusive regional development plans (NDP, LDP) , We call them the Components of an EDB.
in a nutshell
We are a non-profit association that connects economic boards working on a smart, green, prosperous, inclusive and healthy future. From our neutral position, we act as a link and belt between economic boards to support, stimulate, boost and implement solutions for a sustainable and economically successful society.
We support multi-stakeholder dialogue with all sectors to better coordinate and implement actions for the community. We follow the ethics of OECD, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, to build better lives.
• The team is TOP LEVEL
• EDBA is a non profit NGO
• our code of ethics: SKY is the LIMIT !
b) What are the Components of a Green Economic Board?
A Green Economic Board can work with private sector/business, academic institutions, civil societies, young leaders, authorities and citizens to create tomorrow’s smart, green, inclusive, prosperous and healthy areas.
It can start with two sectors, growing in time into a board that represents various aspects of its community.
A Green Sustainable Local Economic Board can include 2 to many Components, which are:
C Colleges
C Corporations
C Council } a combination of all of them forms An Inclusive Sustainable Green Economic Board
C Citizens
C Civil Societies - Young Leaders
Examples of Economic Boards building Sustainability into the Agenda for their City:
• Amsterdam https://amsterdameconomicboard.com/en
• Bristol: https://www.bristolonecity.com/economy/the-economy-board/
c) Join Us
• Complete and submit the online form.
• 2026 fee membership is free
Why?
Members have access to:
• our directories of:
◦ Economic boards for networking, sharing and learning with each other
◦ Marketplace online platform matching portfolio of projects and initiatives to funding eg loans and grants.
◦ Our knowledge platform with links to training portals
◦ Links to events, conferences
◦ Links to funding websites
◦ Links to training and education (FAO academy)
◦ Mentoring workshops for capacity building and board building
• Opportunities to participate in and support research to help overcome barriers
• Toolkit to establish and develop a Sustainable Economic Board
d) Knowledge Hub
• Toolkit on how to become and develop a Green Economic Board
◦ Example of a Memorandum of Understanding between parties wanting to work together
◦ How to register on international funding websites
◦ Open software to share and use – links below
◦ Examples of green economic boards
▪ Incorporating United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
▪ Including Agenda 2030 into its framework
https://digital-skills-jobs.europa.eu/en/community/networking/organisat…
www.economicboard.org
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2) PROJECT PROPOSAL :
EconLADDER, A CLIMATE ADAPTATION Unique UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM Web3.0 AUGMENTED and REACTIVE
Most advanced VET+ToT Knowledge platform (MOOC/Moodle ecosystem or Online Academy for Remote Distance Learning)
+ Many Local Centres (OdeL) for Education, VET and ToT.
A major obstacle to developping effective environment, climate change adaptation, EbA etc..policies and projects in LDCs/SIDSsis a lack of endogenous capacity related to policy formulation and project design and implementation. Limited funding available to LDC/SIDSgovernments from international financiers and the private sector to support adaptation undermines scaled-up adaptation action and the transformative change that is necessary to move LDCs & SIDSs into climate-resilient economic and social development pathways.
a) Project Cooperation
EconLADDER (Economic LADDER), a CLIMATE ADAPTATION Unique UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM Web3.0 AUGMENTED and REACTIVE
+ Local Centres OdeL for Education (VET and ToT)
b) Objectives of the proposed work:
Objective 1: To create an ecosystem and programme, EconLadder, to support the development of measurable and informed accelerated sustainable local economic development in some of the poorest countries in the world, in line with the 5 pillars of sustainability.
The EconLadder is both an online platform (a website and apps) created to support local sustainable development through Sustainable Local Economic Boards (SLEBs) and with an office in each country to provide on the ground support (Hybrid system).
Objective 2: To create and support sustainable local economic boards -SLEBs to accelerate the development of their local economy to create a smart, healthy, prosperous and inclusive community, with a triple bottom line of looking after people, profit and the planet, focusing on Uganda and Madagascar to start with.
SLEBs are grass roots organisations with members that represent at least two of the following local groups:
council,
college,
charity,
church,
creative group,
corporation,
civil society or anyone.
Therefore, the end user could be from local government, government agency, college, NGO, civil society group or the private sector, working together on sustainable local economic development strategies and implementing projects.
Objective 3: The EconLadder programme for Africa wants to support SLEBs in developing strategies and implementing sustainable change to make a real and positive impact to areas. It is developing online tools, open and accessible to its members, and encourage the sharing of learning through their community of practice.
Objective 4: To create a network of local economic boards (SLEBs) with the skills and competencies to develop sustainable projects in their communities that build on older work, and that will reduce climate change, increase sustainable prosperity,
planet
profit
people
partnership
peace
Objective 5: To research and assess GHG emissions and resources consumption from a local (low) granularity side that SLEB and local projects undertake.
3) This is pertinent to the DIGITAL programme topic because;
EconLadder’s consortium for this application focuses on supporting countries at the brunt of climate change: Madagascar and Uganda in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both are among the poorest countries in the world, and on the frontline of the climate emergency. Madagascar is being hit increasingly by cyclones and drought, while Uganda has one of the fastest rising young populations and this is putting pressure on its resources in the face of climate change.
Goal 1: The programme, EconLadder was created to support the development of measurable and informed sustainable development.. The website and its app has a toolbox of resources for members to access with a variety of tools to provide end-users, the economic board members, with the information to make informed decisions about climate change and adaptation development measures for their area.
Goal 2: The programme EconLadder is to create and support sustainable local economic boards (SLEBs) to develop their local economy to create a smart, healthy, prosperous and inclusive community.
The local economic development boards can build their capacity by easily accessing the programme’s online curated knowledge base for development of climate services, along with its education and training portal, a free website and hosting, online forum, access to marketplace for projects, community of practice, research findings, online meetings for members and more.
Goal 3: EconLadder supports SLEBs with training and information about climate science and more to plan, create strategies and implement sustainable change it to make a real impact.
Goal 4: The EconLadder programme wants to create an online and interactive network of local economic boards (SLEBs) with its members in eastern Africa delivering reasearch and resources in local languages and localised contents. This will create better connected teams of developers. EconLadder provides an online forum and regular interactive online board meetings for members. This will create a community of practice for members to share and learn, and create the potential for boards to build consortiums to be able to apply for bigger grants.
Goal 5: To research a project that a SLEB undertakes and assess its GHG emissions and resources consumption reduction.
EconLadder’s objectives of supporting SLEBs and local ptojects to help their community mitigate and adapt to climate change is measurable.
4) our Achievements are measurable...
check us in : Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Albania, WB and NE, sub med and SSA (Senegal, Ivory coast, Togo, Benin, Mali, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique etc...), ASEAN (Malyasia, Indonesia) and LAC,
5) ANNEXES :
TOPICS:
Nature and biodiversity
Access to Justice
Biodiversity integration in public and business decision-making
Blue and Green Infrastructure
Forests
Governance
Greening urban and peri-urban areas
Marine habitats and species (including coastal)
Nature in agricultural land
Circular economy and quality of life
Circular Economy and Waste
Environmental Governance
Water
Climate change mitigation
Sectors under effort sharing decision; reduction of fluorinated gases; Renewable energy
Functioning of the EU ETS
Land, forest and sea management
Climate change adaptation
Strategies, plans and state-of-the art tools for climate change adaptation
Nature-based solutions for land, coasts and marine areas, agriculture and forestry
Cities, regions, infrastructure and buildings
Water management and adaptation
Climate action governance
European Climate Pact
Governance and climate change mitigation and adaptation
Sustainable financing
Clean Energy transition
Energy efficiency and renewable energy policies
Local and regional clean energy transition planning
Decarbonisation of Heating & Cooling
Energy communities
Energy poverty
Upskilling of building professionals for the clean energy transition
Mobilising sustainable energy investments
Energy efficiency products and compliance
Field
CEQL - Water
CET - Energy poverty
CET - Energy communities
CEQL - New European Bauhaus
CEQL - Environmental Governance
CEQL - Circular Economy and Waste
Nature Governance - Access to Justice
CCM - Land, forest and sea management
CCA - Water management and adaptation
Nature - Blue and Green Infrastructure
Nature Governance - Compliance assurance
Nature - Greening urban and peri-urban areas
CET - Mobilising sustainable energy investments
Climate action governance - European Climate Pact
Climate action governance - Sustainable financing
CCA - Cities, regions, infrastructure and buildings
Nature - Marine habitats and species (including coastal)
CET - Local and regional clean energy transition planning
Nature - Biodiversity integration in public and business decision-making
CET - Upskilling of building professionals for the clean energy transition
CCA - Strategies, plans and state-of-the art tools for climate change adaptation
CCA - Nature-based solutions for land, coasts and marine areas, agriculture and forestry
CET - Mainstreaming sustainable energy investments in the financial sector and innovative finance schemes
Our keywords are:
in : Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, and ACP, LDC SDIDS and Malyasia, Indonesia, Senegal, Ivory coast, Togo, Benin, Mali, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique etc...
Digital and Digitalisation
Internet Access (Universal)
Local Economic Development LED
Community Driven Development (CDD)
Economic Boards and sustainable local economic boards (SLEBs)
Environment Based Adaptation (EbA, NBS)
Climate Adaptation grounding/implementation
Belt for grounding adaptation implementation
Downsizing climate action
Local Impact driven policies
Assessment of local impact
MEAL Monitoring
Labelling local initiatives
Measurability
Data science
Citizen Science
Accountablity and Finance effectivness
Anticorruption
Climate justice (loss and damages)
Green washing
Offsetting credits
