Module 9: Wellbeing policy impact assessment
Congratulations on completing Module 9!
This module has:
described five overarching considerations to guide (prospective) wellbeing policy impact assessments.
invited you to identify which impact considerations might be missing from existing policy impact assessment processes in your organisation or department
offered practical examples of how each of these considerations can be applied, drawing on case studies from around the world
With Module 9, this course has come to an end. We hope that through this course you have gained valuable new insights to help drive positive change in your local context. At WEAll, DEAl and ZOE, we’re looking forward to expanding and building on this course going forward.
In the meantime, if you’d like to continue to learn about wellbeing economy governance, come and join the policymakers network! And finally, please share your feedback on this Module with us in the End-of Course survey. We’d love to hear your thoughts!
Come and join the Wellbeing Economy Policymakers Network
Would you like to continue the conversation about wellbeing economy governance? Come and join the Wellbeing Economy Policymakers Network! The Wellbeing Economy Policymakers network is a network for policymakers from all around the world and from all different levels of government. The network, which is jointly hosted by WEAll and the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies, meets four times a year to explore practical tools and case studies of ways to embed a wellbeing economy approach into governance.
Further reading
If you’d like to read more about practical tools to embed wellbeing economy considerations into policy impact assessments, you might like to explore the following resources:
DEAL (2022) Doughnut Unrolled: Introducing the four lenses. (available in French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese)
Lowe, T., French, M., Hawkins, M., Hesselgreaves, H., & Wilson, R. (2020). New development: Responding to complexity in public services - the human learning systems approach. Public Money & Management, 41(7), 573–576. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1832738
Meadows, D. (1999), Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, The Donella Meadows Project: Academy for Systems Change.
New Zealand Treasury (2024). He Ara Waiora Handbook - a handbook to guide the implementation of He Ara Waiora, the Māori wellbeing framework, into policymaking.
OECD (2022), Redesigning Ireland’s Transport for Net Zero: Towards Systems that Work for People and the Planet. Paris: OECD Publishing.
SOIF (n.d.) Intergenerational Fairness Assessment Toolkit, School of International Futures.
SOIF (2024). The Promise of Future Design, School of International Futures.